How Transformative Thinking Can Change Your Life

What is transformative thinking?

It’s estimated that we have up to 60,000 thoughts a day. How they measure this, I don’t know. But I do know I have a lot of thoughts. Some of them are quite nice, some of them, not so much; some of them are more or less arbitrary, some of them are more or less useful, but combined, they create my experience of life as they are played out before me via consciousness.

Have you ever wondered about ‘thought’, not the content of your thoughts, like ‘what shall I have for dinner?’ ‘Does he love me?’ ‘I can’t do it?’ ‘I can do it? ‘Does my bum look big in this?’, but the nature of thought itself. What is it? What is thought made of? Where does it come from, and where does it go when it’s finished? If you are anything like me, the answer to this question is probably no, which is bonkers really when you “think” about it.

We take it for granted that these 60,000 or so thoughts that go through our heads every day are just ‘the way it is’. They appear to inform us of who we are, what we like and don’t like and what we can and can’t do. They run every aspect of our lives, and yet we almost never question the nature of the whole thing.

I invite you to take a moment and join me in a short experiment. Those of you who know me know I love a good old experiment.  

Let’s take a moment to ponder… What is a thought? Can you touch it? Smell it? Taste it? Did you invite it? Can you capture and keep it? What is the nature of a thought?

What does seem clear is that thoughts create our experience via our senses and the emotional responses attached to them. Some thoughts create feelings of happiness, some of fear, some of joy, some of sadness and so on, and it’s these emotional responses which really seem to bring our thoughts to life, bringing a sense of reality, solidity and a sense of self to them, informing us of who we are and what’s going on in the world. But what if we look a little closer?

What if this feeling of absoluteness and solidity were false? What if the stories our thoughts are telling us about who we are are not set in stone, but instead fluid and transient and not only that, often learned from others?  If thought creates our experience, and yet, as discovered in our experiment, there is nothing fixed or tangible about it, then ‘hang on!’ What might this open up for question?

When we are very sure that ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that’ as if it were some unchangeable truth, we are unnecessarily limiting ourselves. This is an invitation to take the first steps into questioning the nature and content of your thoughts and in doing so bring greater freedom, peace and happiness to your life.

If you embark on this journey, you will begin to see that it’s not necessarily about changing your thoughts or inventing a better or more acceptable version of yourself or your life. This almost never works long term, as those of you who have tried might have noticed.

This is about learning to use the power of your amazing creative mind to see through the illusion of the thoughts that hold you back. Once this is seen, old, unwanted behaviours begin to fall away simply because there is no reason for them to stay.

The power of Transformative thinking is felt immediately as we learn to use the mind to inquire into itself rather than judge, measure, control and continuously self-reference. In this way, the possibility arises to step outside the confines of the self-perpetuating story loops that keep us stuck inside them, repeating the same old patterns. Then Boom!

Transformative thinking is happening when we are using the immense power of our creative and inquisitive mind to question the validity of its own thinking. If this sounds confusing, it’s ok. That’s only because this has never been a consideration before, and the reason why problems stay problems in our lives for way longer than they need to.

As we begin to use the mind in this way, we begin to see how transformative thinking can change our life, as it gets instantly better because now we are freeing ourselves from the absurd and erroneous idea that we are lacking in some way. Because yes, that is an idea, which is made of nothing more than thought.

If you are tired of the same old… If you are somebody who’s ready to experience real change. If you are somebody who’s ready to let go of old, outdated versions of yourself and make the shift from confined to free, you are in the right place.