Thoughts trigger emotions, and the vibrational frequency of these emotions then feed back into the original thought. It all begins with your thoughts-our life experiences spring from the thoughts we actively engage in: You are what you think.Īnd to comprehend the essence of this statement, you first need to understand the link between your thoughts, emotions, and behavior.

“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”-Eckhart Tolle You must change the attention of your thoughts because what you think directly influences how you feel, and how you feel directly influences how your body reacts, and how your body reacts directly influences how you behave, and how you behave comes to define who you are and what you experience in life. If you want to change the outside, you must first change the inside. In truth, the environment does play a role in changing your circumstances, but it doesn’t address the root of the cause (your thinking) that is the driver behind why you feel the way you do. This happens because we falsely assume that change begins from the outside. We buy, we travel, we forget-always focusing on the external factors we need to alter in order to create better circumstances. We seek substances to numb the mind and help us forget.īut of course, we fall back to where we had started: unhappy with where we are today.Īnd so the cycle repeats itself. We buy things for a materialistic boost of happiness. So we go about transforming our environment believing that doing so will create the necessary change we hope to see. When we’re unhappy where we are in life, we seek to create change.

It is the quality of our thoughts, then, that create the quality of our life. Our thoughts create our experiences, and thus, we experience what we think. This secret revolves around this simple idea: You are what you think.Įnglish philosopher James Allen wrote: “ As a man thinks, so he is as he continues to think, so he remains.” Stoic and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “ A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Author Earl Nightingale said: “We become what we think about,” and Mark Twain wrote: “Life consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”Īll these great minds discovered the secret to living a happy, purposeful and productive life, and it’s this: There’s a ‘secret’ that all great historical and present thinkers, philosophers, and high achievers have agreed to be a universal truth.

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