You Are What You Think: How Your Thoughts Create Your Reality by Hafsa published on 2021-09-05T23:28:58Z There’s a ‘secret’ that all great historical and present thinkers, philosophers, and high achievers have agreed to be a universal truth. This secret revolves around this simple idea: You are what you think. When we’re unhappy where we are in life, we seek to create change. So we go about transforming our environment believing that doing so will create the necessary change we hope to see. We buy things for a materialistic boost of happiness. We travel to escape our problems. We seek substances to numb the mind and help us forget. But of course, we fall back to where we had started: unhappy with where we are today. And so the cycle repeats itself. We buy, we travel, we forget—always focusing on the external factors we need to alter in order to create better circumstances. This happens because we falsely assume that change begins from the outside. 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. Here’s what you need to realize: If you want to change the outside, you must first change the inside. 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 reactions directly influence how you behave, and how you behave comes to define who you are and what you experience in life. It all begins with your thoughts—our life experiences spring from the thoughts we actively engage in: You are what you think. Genre Mindfulness