My morning blinding flash of the obvious: The power of positive thinking is only power when we're not consciously thinking.
When we manufacture the "positive" and repeat it endlessly, even calling it an affirmation, that is simply fear dressed up pretty. That's us trying to make something happen or to keep something from happening. We're still into being the God of our own understanding.
When we sit in the silence and open our mind to receive, not send, that which floats through contains our gold...most times well-disguised gold, but that ensures we ponder it. We learn to look beneath the apparentness of it...that's where we find the positive.
It must be noted that sometimes that which floats through our thoughts is just an idle thought...and there is gold there, too. That teaches us to use our patience...think Waiting for Godot.
The power of positive thinking, then, comes from detaching from reliance on our reasoning mind, from our own thinking. We acknowledge (never deny) whatever is foremost in our thoughts, usually a fear of another, and entrust God to "intervene in our life in our behalf."
Loose it and let it go. -- somewhere in the KJV Bible
Thank you.
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