TOXIC THOUGHTS
How they contribute to polluting the Earth
In Sandra Ingerman’s How to Heal Toxic Thoughts: Simple Tools for Personal Transformation (2007) she provides us with tools that assist in the transmutation of toxic thoughts that pollute, not only our individual bodies, but also the Earth and all of Her inhabitants.
She defines how our thoughts contribute to worldwide animosity, rage, the pain of war, and not only our personal health but also the Earth’s and all living Beings. By opening the door to understanding our individual responsibility for, not only our words, but our thoughts, she points to the final frontier of healing Mother Earth!
What are toxic thoughts?
Here are a few examples of toxic thoughts that you may find familiar:
Your driving down the highway when another driver cuts you off, frightening and stressing you. Perhaps your automatic response is to flip your finger while thinkiing about how you’d like to run the driver off the road or hoping they rot in hell.
Your bank charges you fees for overdrafting your checking account; you’re angry and visualize screaming at the branch manager, or throwing a tantrum with the customer service representative. You don’t do it; you merely think about doing it.
You’re late for work, you haven’t had breakfast; at a drive-through window you order a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on a croissant; you drive away only to find that the bag contains a bagle with cream cheese. You’re stressed, worried that you’ll now definitely be late for work, returning to the window you request they quickly remedy your order while you think about how you’d like to scream at the server for making you late to work. You don’t actually scream but for several minutes your mind obsesses about yelling and throwing a fit with all the restaurant’s workers.
Unconsciously, we’re probably all guilty of occasional hateful or destructive thoughts, but how do we restrain ourselves from this harmful behavior?
It’s requires diligence but you can do it!
Reigning in our toxic thinking requires the conscious practice of reversing these thoughts by replacing them with thoughts of love, joy, and peace. Using the above examples, here’s what Sandra recommends and what I’ve found works to shift my own toxic thoughts.
Recognizing that your thought about running the driver off the road has flown out of your car window like a helium balloon, you think or say, “Oops, I’m sorry,” followed by surrounding your harmful thoughts with visions or thoughts of love, light, and peace.
You don’t really want to cause the bank teller of branch manager any harm; once you’ve calmed down and realize you’ve sent harmful thoughts to individuals who have nothing to do with bank policy, you visualize these thoughts floating in the atmosphere, replacing them with thoughts of loving light and appreciation for the bank’s employees.
Oh, the wrong sandwich! It’s happened to the best of us, yet the truth is that, without harmful intent, people make mistakes. Prior to, or when you’re munching on that sandwich, feel into that “oops,” and surround that harmful energy with love, light, and peace.
It’s simple, but it’s not easy to shift a habitual behavior. None of us are perfect, just like the person who bagged the wrong sandwich, we all make mistakes. Be kind and gentle with yourself, while, at the same time, reversing your toxic thoughts, replacing them with the manna Mother Earth longs for, love, peace, healing light, and joy!
Remember, toxic thoughts harm your personal health, the Earth’s, and all of her Beings.
In order to heal and return the Earth to it’s original healthy self, we must take responsibility for all the ways we’re contributing to her ill-health. Yes, many of us have changed our ways by limiting our use of plastics and re-using what little plastic comes into our homes, by recycling, composting, shifting our use from fossil fuels to wind and solar power and, when possible, buying hybrid or electric vehicles, and finally, by reigning in our harmful, toxic thoughts.
May you be well, live with joy in your heart, breath, and restrain your toxic thinking.
Use the comments field to ask questions about how to heal your toxic thoughts or to report your progress in this final frontier of personal and planetary healiing.
1-- I can’t fix the problem by blaming someone.
2-- How can I help make the situation better?
3-- I feel better since I started thinking this way. 😊
Thanks, Dory, for helping me become more calm.