No matter where you are today, you can always change your life for the better.
You can achieve great things if you believe in yourself and overcome your own obstacles.
The search for answers always leads to mindfulness and the power of thoughts and the resulting vibrations.
Only what we carry deep within us can be reflected on the outside.
I believe in the power of thoughts, in inner strength and positive energy, that lies within each of us.
I am firmly convinced that we can achieve anything we set our minds to.
As long as we don’t destroy it with limited beliefs and self-doubt.
Before we think about where we want to go, it is important to recognise where we are right now.
We need to recognise what strengthens us and does us good and what weakens us and makes us suffer.

What hurts, limited beliefs, fears and doubts are holding us back, from exploring the core of our true selves?
What prevents us from achieving our desires and goals?
The causes are mostly unconscious thought patterns and anchored beliefs.
These affect our behaviour and this in turn affects our experiences.
We are quick to simply change the environment or the people around us, but we keep running into the same problems.
We can change our environment, but we will always have the same experiences,

because our outer life is and always will be a mirror of our inner life.

What we may discard are the behaviours, thoughts and beliefs, that we have inherited from others and that limit and prevent us from being who we really are.
For this to happen, we need to be clear about, what is holding us back from our true selves.
To gain this clarity about ourselves and our lives, we should look at the areas of our lives and reflect on them.

Do we feel that we are not good enough?
Or that we are not seen and appreciated?

Then we will most likely have this mirrored in different areas of our lives.
When we recognise the patterns, the cause of our suffering (dukkha) can become clearer and we can begin to tear down, brick by brick, the wall we have spent years building
around our true core.
Our thoughts influence our actions, and these in turn influence our decisions and experiences.

So in order for us to change anything, we have to change our behaviour, and that starts with changing our thoughts.
So the change starts in our head, our mind.
To free ourselves from limiting thoughts, we need to expand our consciousness.
By realising and becoming aware that our beliefs are self-imposed and correspond to our own perception, we can dissolve them.
Then we become free and accessible to something greater.
First we feel as we think, and then we think as we feel.

From this comes our state of being.

So to reach a new state of being, we have to transform not only our thoughts, but also our feelings.
When new thoughts and feelings are in harmony with each other, we have reached the desired state of being.
We should pay attention to our thoughts and feelings so that we can become aware of our limiting beliefs.

Mindfulness is the key to becoming aware of unconscious thoughts and feelings.
If we focus our attention on our habitual patterns, that we no longer want, we will break them.
Suppose we then concentrate with active focus on new thoughts and goals, we can then leave our old ways and create and walk new paths.

Mindfulness means being attentive and accepting without judgement.

When we practice mindfulness, we are present in the present moment, we live in the here and now and the illusions fall away from us.
This enables us to look at a situation neutrally.
Normally, we react immediately to a stimulus or event.
Mindfulness helps us to change our ingrained patterns of reaction.
When we look at our thoughts and feelings with mindfulness, we can become aware of our unconscious thought patterns and wounds or triggers.
For example, we recognise our rising anger but do not become angry or upset.
This means that we are aware of our feelings and thoughts, observing them, but not absorbing them and giving them control over us.
Our mind remains conscious and clear in the present moment and does not allow the situation to define us.
The situation does not have us in its grip, but we consciously decide, how to deal with it.
This gives us infinite freedom, because when our mind is clear and calm, we can make conscious decisions.

When our mind is calm and clear, it returns to our original state.

So with mindfulness, we can be happy in any situation if we can, to be attentive in the present moment and not judge or evaluate.
However, we often forget to live in the present moment, and instead are constantly preoccupied with our past, the future, or the “problems” of other people.
Mindfulness can be trained.
During mindfulness training, our attention initially wanders and gets lost in thoughts.
With a little practice, our emotions and thoughts can be controlled better and we become more sensitive to our bodily sensations.
Mindfulness promotes mental health.
In particular, our constant stress levels are lowered.
Mindfulness exercises and meditations not only help us, our attention and concentration, but they also bring calm and clarity to our lives and to our unconscious thoughts.
This way, when we are confronted with unpleasant things, we do not fall back into our old and habitual patterns of thought and behaviour.
Instead, we get the chance to reflect and make conscious decisions.
Through mindfulness we have the wonderful possibility to let our true core shine and to see the world with different eyes.

“Mindfulness can help us communicate again, especially with ourselves.”

THICH NHAT HANH