A Prisoner's Wisdom

I Am the Thinker of the Thought

It has been said that we have up to 60,000 thoughts a day.
Hypothetically speaking if a quarter of those thoughts were negative, cynical and pessimistic then in a mere two days we would have accumulated 30,000 thoughts of that nature.
It’s then safe to say that in one week we would have more than likely entertained 150,000 thoughts that were negative, cynical and pessimistic in nature.

Science says that thinking certain thought patterns will form neuron grooves in our brain, or in laymen’s terms, pathways.
If one were to hike through bushland along the same path regularly, then eventually a pathway would be formed, making the track less resistant to future hikes.
Thoughts on a particular subject flow more effortlessly when we allow the same thoughts to continue.
A collection of the same thoughts will form a house of thoughts.
A house of thoughts will form a belief.
A belief will become a stronghold in the mind and this can be very difficult to break or pull down.

There was once an Indian guy I met in Wooroloo prison who was definitely the most odious person I had ever encountered in my entire life.
He hated everyone and everything.
Every word he spoke was filled with negativity and every person he met was an enemy or needed to be stabbed.
He did stab two inmates on separate occasions over the many years of prison that he had lagged out.
For some reason I took on the task of trying to help this guy get his life back on track at the cost of having him come visit my cell every day!
Months went by as he frequently got counsel from me on all of his issues, until eventually I had to cut him off for his lack of willingness to change.
I look back and laugh at myself as I remember the few times I would hide myself behind the door of my cell or pretend to be asleep when I heard his sandals dragging up the corridor. I could recognise the distinct sound of his walk anywhere.
Interestingly enough, this poor guy did manage to always attract a significant amount of bad luck into his life. Mind you, his addiction to the drug ice that used to be smuggled in offered no help.
A good way to determine if you are filled with negativity is to observe the content of your conversation. If you can’t help jumping into conversations when people are complaining about how terrible the world is, or how unfair life is and how expensive the cost of living is, then maybe you might have to start monitoring your thought focus. What you are looking for you will see more of and, “Out of the abundance of your heart your mouth speaks”.
Luke 6:45.

If all your conversations are about violence and destruction, then it is true to say that you have violence and destruction in your heart.
When it is in your heart, you will attract it into your life, including the people who talk and think on the same level.
Like attracts like.
Birds of a feather flock together.
A seller will attract a potential buyer.

I know of people who experience racism because they look for it in situations when it may not even be there.
I grew up in the era of South Africa’s apartheid system and although I was only 13 years old when my family migrated to Australia, the system of thought whereby I judged people based on the colour of their skin or their background heritage was already engraved into my thinking.
The now old apartheid system segregated Blacks from Whites, Indians from Whites, Coloureds (those of mixed race) from Whites and called any nationality that couldn’t be classed into a group (other).
As a result, there was a lot of pre-judging or prejudice going on between all the diverse races. When you conversed with someone from another race you were distinctively looking for and mindful of the characteristics of that particular race and also disconnected to the godly thought that this is my brother.
It took several years for me to break out of the bondage that came from my pre-judging (prejudice), as well as having to dissipate the idea that people were pre-judging me according to the colour of my skin.
In my early years as an immigrant fresh from South Africa, I felt as if I did encounter a significant amount of racism.
However, as I became more Australian, the things that used to offend me no longer did. I realised the sense of humor of the Australian culture was renowned for good banter and sarcasm with no malice intended.
Fast forward 20 years and I can honestly say I have zero encounters of any sort of racism towards me, not even the slightest.
Did the culture change?
Or did I change?
Chien and I were discussing the topic of racism in my cell. I was seated on my bed and Chien sat on a plastic chair smack bang in the middle of the room.
The afternoon sun shone through my cell window the whole time we talked.
During a brief pause in conversation, our attention was turned to the dust particles in the room that became visible due to a combination of the sun’s rays and our attention to the dust particles floating in the air.
The particles were always there but we didn’t even notice them until we gave attention to them.
OUR ATTENTION TO THE AIRBORNE DUST BROUGHT ABOUT ITS EXISTENCE!
Ironically our discussion was on how Chien, a Vietnamese and myself, a Coloured South African, did not experience any form or act of racism toward us in, of all places, prison.

I am not saying that there is no racism! Remember early on in this book I mentioned that some people were put on the guilty based on the color of their skin or the pronunciation of their surname.
Q. So if racism exists, then how come Chien and I never encountered any of it?
A. Firstly, it wasn’t in us so the laws of attraction could not draw it to us.
Secondly, if there was any intended toward us we couldn’t see it because we weren’t looking for it.
MUCH LIKE THE DUST IN THE ROOM, IT MAY BE THERE BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO FOCUS ON FINDING IT TO SEE IT!

You can change deep, ingrown belief systems that have been holding you back for years using an ancient method that I am about to show you.
You can destroy poverty, violence, racism, anger, depression virtually anything that you can think of that has kept you or family generations that have gone before you in chains for decades.
As Mahatma Ghandi said, “We must be the change we want to see in the world”.
Change does not occur outside of yourself. You must become the change.
In doing so the world around you will begin to change as the energy vibration of your being changes.
If you feel as if people are being racist toward you, I suggest that you stop viewing yourself as a colour. Surely you are aware that you are more than just a colour so start to see the values in yourself outside of a colour, (even if the government imposed one on you). Your outer world will begin to change and you will notice that people love and accept you more as you become loving and accepting towards your own self and towards others.
Become proud of your colour or race, in that way it becomes impossible to be offended.
I am so black proud that if I am in the company of people who are being derogatory towards people of colour, I view it as an uneducated prejudgment or just an individual’s opinion and nothing more.
Often they are not even serious in their remarks and truly mean well. I have friends who feel comfortable enough to joke and banter with me. If I was even remotely inferior about my colour then I could be offended but I find it impossible to be offended when I love my heritage.