CLARITY AND INTEREST

*Clarity: n

clar·i·ty [klérrətee]

1. clearness of expression: the quality of being clearly expressed
2. clearness of thought: clearness in what somebody is thinking

How do we manifest clarity in our thinking when clearly we have no control over the thoughts that float up into our consciousness? Vigilance. We have no practical way of shutting down the flow of thoughts, so the course of action is to immediately recognize the negative and supplant it with the positive. If you decide not to think about elephants, you are in fact thinking about elephants and will be reminded of elephants by the subconscious mind all day. The subconscious mind processes think (the action) and elephant (the subject) as the desired demonstration. Doubt this? Remember the last time you got a song or annoying jingle stuck in your mind? Try as we might every attempt to not think about it fails, it only fades away when we finally become interested in something else, our attention diverted, the Law of Substitution in action.

Now consider prayer. One of the eternal questions is why some prayers are seemingly not answered, yet we are promised that if “we knock, it will be answered, ask and we shall receive.” Now we have the key. Thought being causative (remember the jingle) if we pray but continue to place our interest on the lack, the pain, discord, illness, the jingle etc than we will not demonstrate the positive, the prayer seemingly unanswered, the negative holding sway. We demonstrate when we pray with joy, keeping our focus, our interest on the positive, the Love of God. Wayne Dyer teaches this lesson when he asks us “to think from the end.” Imagine what you will feel like when the prayer is answered and hold to that feeling. When negativity tries to worm its way back in, and it will, reinvigorate the positive feeling, expunging the negative immediately with the positive mental equivalent, replacing that annoying jingle by substituting a tune you love, not fighting the negative, but replacing it with the demonstration we desire.



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