How Thought Creates Stress

Written by Lynne & Vivian on March 23, 2010 – 7:00 am -

Life is truly an inside-out job. The thoughts which are inside of us create our lives. They certainly create how we deal with situations. The thoughts that we focus on grow.  If we have a lot of thoughts about worries, concerns, and fears, and put attention on those, we will continue to create stress.

When we have situations in our lives that could be precursors to stress we have been conditioned to solve those problems with the computer part of our mind. We go back into our storage banks to find a similar situation, and then pull it out and say “here’s the answer”.

Most often those old ways of dealing with things don’t apply in the new situation because we’ve grown and changed, and circumstances are different. Trying to meet today’s problems from the computer mind is a surefire formula for creating stress and distress.

There is another habit of the mind at play here. It is what we call thought attacks. When you are lost in spinning worries and concerns you are really having a thought attack. While your thoughts are circling around a worry, you aren’t going anywhere. But your life force and energy are being drawn into that whirlpool and being wasted. The more you can recognize and catch a pattern, the faster you can move to clarity and action.

Here’s an example of how thought attacks might occur.

• A sales person has often made sales and lost sales.
• They might receive a call that tells them a sale they had counted on was not going to occur. They might have thought “I was counting on that sale and it just fell through; I can’t believe it!”
• Then as they continue to think about the situation another thought might follow: “Oh my gosh, what am I going to do – I have all my bills plus the new car payment due in two weeks.”

Those two thoughts have created a momentum and they are off and running into the future:

• “Now I have to cancel the roof project on my house – and it will probably leak again this winter if the snows are anything like last winter” and
• “My spouse is going to be upset, big time upset!”
• “The economy is getting worse. The stupid politicians never get the stimulus packages going in time.”

When one thought is given a lot of attention, it can attract a dozen more of the same kind of thoughts. When this happens, one is caught in a full-fledged thought attack, with the computer mind fully in control.

Keep in mind, the chain of thoughts described above started with a message received in a two-minute phone call.  When we take the ride into a thought attack, anything else going on in our lives is up for grabs. We may be worried about our child, toddler or adolescent. Whether it’s their health or grades or attitudes, looking at any concern or worry often attracts the “maybe’s” and “could happen next” thoughts that lurk in our old patterns or in what we observe in the lives of others close to us. We are fueling thought attacks faster than the speed of light and feeling the stress that accompanies the growing numbers of spinning thoughts in our minds.

Our thoughts are the foundation for how we experience our lives. Once we know how thoughts create our lives, it is easier to understand how thoughts create our stress. We have a choice. We can either spin around in our worries and concerns, or we can learn to get back to our Brilliance, and access the thoughts that will create a life of satisfaction and ease.

Excerpt from Stop Stress Guide, Back to Brilliance © 2009

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Light Up Your World with Natural Brilliance

Written by Lynne & Vivian on March 10, 2010 – 8:00 am -

Most of today’s Gurus are not teaching how critically important it is to recognize the connection between our feelings and our thoughts. Back to Brilliance is one of the few businesses detailing how important this connection is in mastering our lives. Our Brilliance Formula leads the way.

We’ve been trained to see ourselves as ‘small’, ‘helpless’, ‘insignificant’ or ‘incapable’.  When we see someone stepping out with courage, excelling, making a tremendous impact for good on the world, we see them as out of the ordinary, beyond most people’s capabilities.

In truth, none of us are small, weak, insignificant, or unable to make an impact.  In fact, each of us has a core of Brilliance that is the light that illuminates our own lives and the lives of others.  We are not dim bulbs; we are filled with Brilliance.

We can learn to connect with Brilliance and let it guide our lives because Brilliance is the heart of our true selves. The Formula for activating it is easily implemented once you understand how it works.

The Brilliance Formula allows anyone to avoid reacting to the stressors that are so prevalent in today’s world. This formula shows how Brilliance fuels our efforts to create the best and highest in our lives.

All of our programs at Back to Brilliance teach the Brilliance Formula. Are you ready to light up your world?

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Universal Brilliance is Unstoppable

Written by Lynne & Vivian on March 3, 2010 – 8:00 am -

One of the benefits to living from your natural Brilliance involves the concept of megatrends. When a truth about some aspect of life has moved from being understood and accepted by a few to gaining the acknowledgement of a larger percent of the population, it reaches critical mass. When critical mass occurs, between 30-40 percent of the population, we know that the concept will not go away but will grow until it is integrated into the world view. You might say this is an idea whose time has come.

Here’s what we said in our book, Activate Your Brilliance:

“One of the ideas we’ve been having involves the concept of megatrends. All of us who are living out of our brilliance are vanguard people, pushing the envelope. We’re pushing it because our brilliance sees that there is truly a greater world coming in.  As more individuals learn to live from the inside out, from their natural state of mind, from their heart centers, something much greater than each of us is growing. We are creating a megatrend that will soon be unstoppable. We are creating a world that is informed by love and wisdom.”

We know that the more that people are able to live their lives out of their Brilliance and create out of that universal whole, the more the world will reflect that Brilliance. We believe that the people of the earth have reached a critical mass for Brilliance. Every day our world is informed more and more by love and wisdom. Evidence is everywhere.

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