The Power of Your Thoughts and Feelings — Crafting Your Reality
Imagine that your mind and your heart are like master painters, with a canvas that is your life—your world. Every thought you think, every feeling you generate, is like a brushstroke—coloring the canvas, shaping the shape and substance of your experience.
You may not see it with your eyes, but your thoughts and feelings are the architects of your universe. Like seeds planted in fertile soil, they grow into the ever-unfolding landscape of your life. When you harbor doubts, fears, or judgments, you are planting seeds of chaos or limitation. But when you feed your mind with love, gratitude, and positive visions, you are planting seeds of creation—gardens of abundance, joy, and harmony.
Think of your feelings as the water that nourishes your thoughts—an energetic force that activates intentions and gives life to your creations. Every emotion you feel sends out a signal, a vibration that draws similar energies from the universe. That’s why feeling good—feeling love, gratitude, and peace—aligns you with the most vibrant, beautiful aspects of your potential.
Quantum physics teaches us that everything is interconnected—waves of energy and possibilities that respond to your inner state. But you don’t need to understand the science to know this deeply: when you think of something or someone with love, you are creating ripples of that love through the fabric of reality.
So, the next time you feel overwhelmed or disconnected, remember: your thoughts and feelings are powerful. They are the hands shaping your universe. By choosing thoughts of kindness, acceptance, and hope, and cultivating feelings of gratitude and joy, you are actively creating a world of beauty and possibility.
You are the creator of your universe—be consciously gentle with your thoughts and feelings, for they are the divine brush that paints your life.
Many believe they are victims, while others are perpetrators who have hurt them or done them wrong. They live with those feelings of unforgiveness and wonder why bad things continue to happen to them.
Many decades ago, one of the things I offered was facilitating live-in weekend seminars, titled “Meeting Your Higher Self,” where I assisted others in discovering their Inner Voice, the one we refer to as our Higher Self or Oversoul.
One of the participants was a professor of Aboriginal studies. She was quite angry and heartbroken about how we had treated our First Nations People and wanted to know why Spirit had allowed this genocide to happen.
I was living on the West Coast at that time, and Totem Poles were everywhere.
Totem poles were significant monuments for Pacific Northwest First Nations, serving as visual records of lineage, history, crests, and cultural rights, and marking significant events, deaths, or village locations. Carved from red cedar, to tell stories, honor individuals like chiefs, or commemorate events such as potlatches, etc. They were public declarations of family and clan identity, claims to territory, and the recounting of myths and legends.
I mentioned that perhaps she should ask her ‘Higher Self’ instead of asking me. I instructed her to ask her question directly to herself and not to hesitate or think about the answer, but to repeat what she was gently and quietly receiving telepathically.
“My child, my child. Why do you trouble yourself so? We have all been on the top of the totem pole as well as the bottom.”
I believe that said it all.
In the grand design of life, we often find ourselves cast in roles that challenge our understanding—sometimes as the innocent victim, and other times as the one who causes pain. Yet, beneath these roles lies a deeper truth: they are but different points on the same journey, the same totem pole of existence.
Our stories of hurt and healing, blame and forgiveness, are like the carvings on the totem pole—each telling a part of the whole. Just as the native elders carved their stories into these sacred symbols, we too are carvings of the divine, embodying light and shadow, love and limitation.
Neither role defines us; instead, they serve as lessons leading us back to our true self, beyond the roles we temporarily assume.
Remember: we have all been on the top and the bottom of the pole. We walk through the cycles of being perpetrator and victim, knowing that false roles dissolve in the light of understanding and compassion.
When we see ourselves in others, we recognize the divine reflection—each playing their part in the sacred dance of consciousness, helping us awaken to the truth that we are both or neither, until we remember we are love incarnate.
Next week, I will discuss the “Intent and Purpose” of what we say to others and in our thoughts and actions, as well as the many roles we choose to play as we strive to reclaim our power and remember who we truly are.
May your journey continue to unfold in love, peace, and fullness. Remember, you are profoundly loved and continually held in divine presence.
