I once attended a course that focused on the way our brain works. The trainer was explaining some fairly radical (to me) ideas, like What we focus on expands. If we focus on bad things, life begins to look really ominous. If you focus on the good, you’ll find positive things everywhere.
She also told us There’s always a carpark at the front because nobody ever goes there to look. I tried this out, and more often than not, it’s true.
One of the activities she set us was to think of something we’d like to find that was a pretty hard goal. Just a small, meaningful thing to us. She told us to close our eyes and imagine the object, and see ourselves finding it and, if it cost money, to think of how much we wanted to pay for it.
I chose finding a pair of dark green court shoes. I’d bought a pretty white dress with green sprigs on it, and I thought it would be nice to match them with shoes to pick out the green. I decided to put my faith in her, although green court shoes were rather rare, and the price I wanted to pay ($40) was way below what shoes usually went for.
Two weeks later I found a pair of green suede court shoes on special for $39.99.
I still have them, and the knowledge that What we focus on expands.
Joni Page 