My son comes to me one morning and tells me that he had had a bad dream about a mummy.

I told him we should probably watch better and happier movies to kind of fill our minds and thoughts with something more positive instead of filling ourselves with ideas, images and thoughts that disturbs us.

He been into mummies, zombies and the like lately. Scooby Doo cartoons probably didn’t help avoid this.

By filling ourselves up with positive and nurturing content, it is much more likely to support us and not least support our subconscious mind including filling our dreams with something that is good for us as opposed to something that will give us nightmares.

I told him we need to take out our bad thoughts.

He said:

“We can take our bad thoughts and throw them out in the trash”.

What a brilliant idea.

Let’s throw out our bad thoughts in the trash and replace our thoughts with something that is supportive, nurturing and positively stimulating.

The mere visual image and thought of throwing out the bad thoughts into the trash can actually seems pretty powerful to me. 

It is said we have about 65,000-85,000 thoughts a day. There are two problems about these though. One being that up to 95% of these thoughts are the same thoughts as those we had yesterday. The other problem is that we happen to have a lot of bad thoughts too.

Personally, I aim to stay vigilant about my thoughts and not least about how I feed my thoughts and my mind. It’s one reason that I continuously read a lot, and yes, I read a ton, often a book a day.

I usually read non-fiction, often in areas of business, success, mindset, entrepreneurship or the like. Something that will be able to teach me something in an area that may help me in my professional life and in my businesses.

In addition to reading I often watch something that also holds nurturing content. I’m very interested in Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Physics, and I believe the implications of what we learn from these areas are astounding and may well explain how the Law of Attraction works.

Yes, I believe in Law of Attraction. 

Not that you can just sit back and think happy thoughts and everything good you ever wanted will show up at your doorstep, but yes, with the right actions and mindset, you can make things appear – as if by magic.

I used to watch horror movies, war movies along with everything else. But over the past several years, I have opted away from the heavily negatively images and imprints these will leave on me.

Yes, if a new movie with a top actor comes out and it happens to be a movie in one of these genres, then I may still watch it (if indications are that it’s a good movie). But I used to watch pretty much anything with little regard to how great a quality I could expect from it.

Now, no longer.

I do still enjoy a thriller when it’s clever, so I’m not perfectly managing my intake here, but I try to keep my movie intake to something a bit more constructive and supportive of my thoughts.

As one of my rituals I aim to read something constructive, something I may learn from or something that will put positive thoughts into my mind every morning. With this I aim to set the mood for the day with something that can be more supportive to my, rather than let my worries and my challenges get the better of me.

It’s not always easy or absolutely doable, but I make efforts to get it. With little kids in the house, a wrench can sometimes be thrown in the wheel and by all means from time to time, I too, will have issues in my marital relation that will put more challenges into the mix than I really would like.

But life shows up.

What’s important is not to let life get away with things altogether. Don’t let it be an excuse that you cannot get at least 10 minutes of good reading in. Don’t tell me there are not things in your life that you can eliminate that are not supporting you anyways. Don’t tell me, you cannot insert something of more supportive nature in its place.

So when our bad thoughts show up. Let’s throw them in the trash. Let’s replace our destructive and negative thoughts with something that may serve us.

You may have issues and serious challenges, but ask yourself better questions and you may soon find answers that will lead you to a better place.

Work with what you have instead of focusing on what you don’t have. Do what you can and a bit more. Thinking the usual negative thoughts and you’ll soon have little or no power to change your situation. The answer is not in your worries. But your biggest opportunity may well rest inside your biggest struggle.

I wish you well and God speed.

Illustration: The Zombie by Gabriel (5 years)