Bruce I Doyle III Ph.D. - How to Think Your Way to the Life You Want: A Guide to Understanding How Your Thoughts and Beliefs Create Your Life

Copyright 2011

by Bruce I. Doyle III

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To my daughters, Ellen and Megan, and my grandchildren, Olivia, Zach, Lucy, and Brooke. You light up my life!

It was one of those morningsa cloud

hid the sun, looking up, the bear said,

Oh, this is no fun!

So she started to think about fields full

of flowers and bright, shining rainbows

that follow the showers.

Then she smiled a big smile for she

knew suddenly, a day is as nice as you

think it to be.

What I am about to share with you comes straight from the heart. It's about what I have experienced and what is true for me. I offer no scientific proof for any of my comments. Most of my analogies are simple, in an attempt to illustrate whatscientificallymust be beyond human comprehension. They are presented only to give you something to which you can relate.

If what I have to say inspires you to want to know more, I have accomplished my mission: to spread the word that we are all unlimited beings and only our individual beliefs hold us back. Our beliefs originate from those thoughts that we have accepted as true. Every one of our thoughts is a thread in the fabric of what we experience as our lives. And each one of us weaves our own cloth. Collectively, we weave the tapestry of Lifewhich all experience.

If the life you are experiencing isn't fulfilling, my hope is that by understanding the fundamentals of thought, you will gain new insights into achieving the life you deserveone that has no limits.

Thanks to each individual who has ever played a role in my life. I now know that you were there to reflect back to me my own projections and beliefs about myself. I finally got it. For those of you whom I blamedplease forgive me. To those who inspired meI bow.

Many thanks to Marjorie McLaughlin for her support in conducting my Power-Up for Success workshops, for proofreading my doctoral dissertation, and for editing my published articles.

Many thanks also to Sydne Heather Schinkel, author of Earthbridge Crossing, and to her husband, Thomas, for their professional contribution to my previous book, Before You Think Another Thought.

Special thanks to Sharron Barron of Finally Unlimited for providing the we's teachingsmy introduction to belief systems.

Special thanks also to Harry Palmer for creating the Avatar Course. Avatar gave me a deeper understanding of belief systems and provided me with additional tools for moving closer to experiencing unlimited living.

And finally, heartfelt thanks to the part of me that now has the courage to share things with youabout myselfthat a short time ago would have been unthinkable. May my sharing be helpful.

Love and appreciation to all.

Have you ever had the feeling that you were like a small canoe floating in the oceansolely at the whim of the overpowering waves? No matter how hard you paddled, you could make no impact on your course; you felt totally out of control.

With all the books, tapes, workshops, and seminars available on various aspects of personal developmentfrom basic attitude adjustment to spiritual enlightenmentthere still seem to be a great many people on the planet with this out-of-control feeling, trying desperately to gain control over their lives. You may be one of them. Self-esteem for many is at an all-time low. What's going on? What's missing?

What's missing is a clear understanding of the fundamentals of how each of us creates our own life experiences. Yes, I said our own. We are all responsible for our own experiences.

Thoughts and beliefs are the basic elements of all creation. They exist as tiny waves of energy called thoughtforms, whose sole purpose is to carry out the intent of the thinker.

By understanding how your thoughts and beliefs operate, you will be able to see how some of the limiting beliefs that you hold keep you from achieving your goals. These beliefs can be removed.

Understanding that you have an energetic signature, which is derived from your beliefs, will help you understand how you attract certain events, circumstances, and relationships into your life. By changing your beliefs, you will attract new, more desirable experiences.

When you realize that your thoughts and beliefs determine what you experience, you're on your way to having mastery over your life.

Did you ever have thoughts that you didn't want to share? Thoughts about other people that you knew would upset them if you verbalized them? Maybe about their clothes, manners, or things they did that bothered you. You hesitated to share your thoughts because you wanted to maintain peace in the relationship. You may have even berated yourself for having such awful thoughtsHow could I think such a thing?

Most people consider thoughts as ideas or notions that reside in their heads for their own private use. Thoughts help you to figure out things, evaluate situations, make decisions, and generate feelings, and sometimes they seem to drive you crazy (well, almost).

Thoughts or ideas may seem to reside in your head, but, in reality, each thought exists as a minute wave of energy called a thoughtform. A thoughtform is realit exists. It happens to not be noticed by you because its energy vibration (frequency) is outside the range of human senses. It operates faster than the speed of light and is, therefore, not visible to you.

It might be helpful for you to understand this concept by relating it to something you already know, but which you probably have not given much thought. If you're like most of us, you have a favorite radio station. Perhaps an FM station for listening to your kind of music. Let's say it's 102.7 on the dial.

What that number means is that the frequency of transmission for that station is 102.7 megahertz (megacycles). Mega is the metric designation for one million. The energy transmitted by the station vibrates continuously in the space around you. But unless your radio is tuned to the frequency of 102.7 million cycles per second, you are unaware of it.

My point is this: There is a lot of information vibrating in the space around us that we are not aware of because our senses are limited to a specific range of frequencies. And some of the information vibrating in the space is in the form of tiny, subtle thoughtforms.

The mission of each thoughtform is to fulfill the intent of the thoughtto carry out the thinker's desires or intentions. It does so by attracting to it similar thoughtforms to help it fulfill itself. In effect, you are like a radio station, WYOU, broadcasting your desires, intentions, and ideas out into the universecompletely uncensored. Picture a king who sends selected members of his court out into his kingdom to fulfill his desires (even his secret ones).