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Smile Like You Mean It Positive thoughts can give back the reigns to a rocky, unbalanced life 
“Think happy thoughts.” It’s cliché. Often it’s impractical. But that’s not to say it doesn’t work. And that’s what author Mary Bauer is trying to teach people: that the right thoughts can make a difference. “Basically, it’s about taking charge of your life in a conscious way, and you do that by getting rid of the fear that’s holding you back in life,” says Bauer, who penned “The Truth About You: Thing You Don’t Know You Know (VanderWyk & Burnham, 2006). The reins that hold people back are what Bauer calls “modern truisms”: Anything from “life is unfair” to “it’s my parents’ fault” to the 15th-Century belief that the world was flat. The rate at which information is spread in today’s world means that not only are people being exposed to these truisms more quickly but to more of it, as well, she says. “I want to make sure people aren’t pulled and sucked along by this,” she says. “First of all … there’s going to be circumstances that happen that you can’t control, but you can control your thoughts about the circumstance,” she says. Bauer, a former nurse, says this often comes about when someone is faced with an “incurable” disease – another truism she disregards. “People that get better know they’re going to get better,” she says. Like anything, changing oneself and thoughts takes practice. Once in a while you’ll find somebody who has everything working for them, says Bauer – they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing and their work has a purpose. Take the virtues you see in them and put them to use yourself. “Life will bring you what you ask for,” Bauer says. “You will always bring into your life the energy system that matches yours.” That also means being cognizant of where you may have gone astray. If it seems like a door never opens or that you missed something, step back and look for what something you may have missed. “Always the door is open when you’re on the right path,” she says. “You just got to start with the start. Focus on reshaping what you’re thinking. You’re the only person who can think your thoughts. You know things are right when things just happen.” Bauer just wants to remind people that they do have options. “So many of us are so stuck,” she says. “Everything is here for us. No one is so lost that they don’t know what’s right for them.” |
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