So how good do you think you are at making lemonade?
Making lemonade goes back to the math of life and your own ability to control reactions, E + R = O. And while the events and outcomes are certainly an uncontrollable part of existence with a little practice you can certainly steer the direction of either towards more desirable outcomes.
Let's make lemonade then.
The power of positive thought, or rather complete belief and focus, can actually help to direct where you are and where you want to go. This power can create whatever reality in detail that you can imagine. Do I see a raised eyebrow, hear a slight chuckle or out and out laughter? I'm sure many would discount that notion as ridiculous so that's why we need to make lemonade.
While this practice is better served if you have someone read to you as you use your power of imagination, you can also read with lesser results.
Making Lemonade; Close your eyes and relax. In your mind I want you to create a table or counter in your own kitchen and imagine seeing a fresh beautiful looking lemon on it. Again, while imagining your lemon I want you to pick it up and smell the lemon, see the small droplets of water on it and feel the juices between your fingers as you pick it up.
In your mind's eye take a knife from your drawer and slowly cut the lemon allowing the juices to run over the knife and drip on your hand. Start smelling the fresh scent of the lemon juice and hear the squish as you cut the lemon in two.
Cut the lemon again into a bite size wedge. As your doing so, smell the lemon scent becoming stronger wafting through the air, filling the room and attacking your senses, letting you know the lemon you have just cut is the freshest possible.
See the juice spraying from the lemon as you cut it, hear the smack of juices. Set down the knife, take a lemon wedge and smell the freshness as you bring it closer, bite down on the juicy lemon and let that smooth juicy flavour run over tongue, the tangy sweetness, the harsh freshness, the lemon fresh smell coursing through your nose
Eyes open. Now for most of you, there will be that tense up visceral reaction at the back of your mouth, the same tangy reaction when you have physically eaten a lemon. Guess what? You just did. In every way that your mind knows how to process lemon eating, your mind just told you that you ate a lemon. The key here is that your mind is so incredibly powerful you have used the power of the thought to create the reality.
So plug that into the 'R' on your equation and what can you actually accomplish? You have just proven to yourself your imagination has that power to create. If you have the absolute and total belief to complete a goal then that goal is more than imagination, it is already a reality.
"I want to win the lottery," is probably your first thought and you probably could if you absolutely believed that, without a hint of doubt or disbelief. "Wishing" implies the impossible, so don't set targets you don't believe and frankly, chance is just another word for disbelief. You can accomplish whatever you can imagine and believe with 100 per cent certainty. That is an absolute truth.
"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can toot, toot!", is probably one of your earliest memories of your own inherent ability to chart your own course. A little engine that could is sitting between your shoulders and all you have to do is turn the switch on. So to take my own advice, "Momma Bear's chocolate chip cookies, Momma Bear's chocolate chip cookies, Momma Bear's chocolate chip cookies " Mmmmmm, I can taste 'em already.
Don't take my word on this folks, start small, prove it to yourself and maybe we can all change our own world for the better. Sounds like some commonsense to me.
