Things change, it’s a given. Within moments the weather, the lighting and our surroundings in general will change.   The planets and stars move from instant to instant.  Moods and manners change.  Life appears fickle, constantly carrying us into a new experience, sometimes somewhat expected yet often unexpected.

It is clear that when it comes to the details of a life we are utterly out of control.  Yet often we hear about people thinking a thing right before it happens.  Or we have the experience; we pick up the phone as it rings.  Or we may have an idea which needs a skill and the available person shows up.

And what do we call these events?  Miracles, coincidences, serendipity?  Some people will even claim such fortuitous events are a sign of the devil.  Whatever the reaction is it tends toward superstition.  What else can a person think about these uncontrollable events?  As long as they remain uncontrollable there really is no option, they rest in the realm of the supernatural. 

So we arrive at the only useful question.  Can we somehow control these events? Are they actually natural events in a world we don’t yet understand?  We will never know for sure as a whole until we can demonstrate these coincidences with consistency as individuals.  And we will never know for sure as individuals until we consciously prove the underlying principles to ourselves.

Although there are many reasons why, I have only found three or four major blocks to the process of constructive transformative thinking.  The first and most prevalent block is unconsciousness, the lack of awareness of the creative power of our thoughts.  Day after day all over the world people continue to meander through life completely oblivious to the power they have to direct experience in any direction just by focusing attention and passion.  To the joy of many in recent years this understanding has become far more public with a whole parade of best selling authors bringing these ideas to the fore.  It is much easier to talk about thought power without getting that blank faraway look in our comrades eyes.

The next biggest area of resistance to creative thinking is a lack of mental discipline.  Most people who first enter into this creative philosophy, and many who have been in it for years, seem to think that to think of a thing is enough, “I did what they said, now where’s my mother lode?”  Fortunately this process doesn’t work that way, if it did every thought sent out would cause catastrophic change.  Thankfully thought is a rather rarefied essence and matter is rather dense.  It takes disciplined and focused thinking to demonstrate a specific physical experience.  It takes disciplined thinking just to change a belief or attitude which, for most of us, is enough to make a profound difference in our lives.  Still it does take a creative focus maintained at least ten to fifteen minutes a day for, in some cases, many years to develop concrete proof of this process.  Few people can find that kind of discipline within themselves even though almost all people are capable.