{"id":5689,"date":"2025-09-22T06:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelyasheville.com\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:15:41","slug":"member-message-attracting-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelyasheville.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/member-message-attracting-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Message: Attracting Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Attracting Life<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Henry Ford is quoted as having said, \u201cWhether you think you can or you think you can\u2019t, you\u2019re right\u201d. <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Implicit in this simple declaration, is the relationship between your belief and your reality.\u00a0 It is a fascinating relationship, this one between, on the one hand, belief\/expectation\/entertained possibilities, and on the other hand, actualized potential\/experience.\u00a0\u00a0 So how is it that this relationship exists?\u00a0 How do beliefs affect outcome? It helps to start with remembering that beliefs are organized frameworks of thoughts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is much in our cultural buzz, relating to thoughts, about the principles of \u201cattraction\u201d and how it all works.\u00a0 Much of it is explained in terms of thoughts having specific frequencies, which harmonize with other thoughts of similar nature, and therefore, also of similar frequency.\u00a0 The basic idea is that as a person continues to occupy her mind with a group of similar and mutually reinforcing thoughts, she will begin to \u201cattract\u201d more and more of these types of thoughts into her own consciousness, and as well, develop a co-mingling of like thoughts with other minds having tendencies toward the same type of thoughts. \u00a0\u00a0People tend to take action and events tend to unfold according to those prevailing thoughts, in much the same way that a sail boat will have the tendency (unless otherwise interfered with) to sail in the direction of the prevailing wind.\u00a0 And thus, through this process, \u201cthoughts eventually become things\u201d.<\/p>\n

So this phenomenon, thoughts becoming reality, is happening all the time.\u00a0 How much is on purpose (vs. how much feels like it is happening to us)?\u00a0\u00a0 The answer depends on our level of awareness to begin with, in order to even be \u201con purpose\u201d.<\/p>\n

The greater one\u2019s awareness, the more deliberate one can be in creating one\u2019s own outcome from situation to situation.\u00a0 So then you might ask, \u201cHow does one develop awareness\u201d?\u00a0 One of the best ways to develop awareness is through the practice of \u201cfocus\u201d and \u201cconcentration\u201d.\u00a0 There are many activities that offer the participant\/practitioner the opportunity to focus and the ability to continually increase this focus.\u00a0 Among the choices available to one seeking to increase awareness through deliberate focus, an authentic martial arts practice offers an excellent opportunity.\u00a0 Through purposeful presence and applying focus from one domain\/aspect\/quality to another, the martial artist continually increases his awareness.\u00a0 As his awareness increases, so too does his ability to choose his thoughts to begin with.\u00a0 And as these initial thoughts are deliberately chosen, by translation, so too are their related outcomes, resulting ultimately in the deliberate creation\/co-creation of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We all can do this!\u00a0 It is how we are \u201cwired\u201d.\u00a0 So for the next few weeks you can increase your conscious effectiveness in the following way.\u00a0 Focus on patterns available to you all the time, like your breathing, your heartbeat, the cadence of the wind, the air temperature on your skin or the buzzing of the lights in the room.\u00a0 As you do this, you are likely to notice your general awareness increasing.\u00a0 As your awareness increases, pay special attention to your thoughts, being careful to \u201cchoose\u201d thoughts consistent with what you really want.\u00a0 And as you consciously choose, notice your reality unfolding in accordance with your thoughts.\u00a0 As you conceive these thoughts, you will literally be catalyzing the conception of life and in the process, discover the martial artist in you.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Grandmaster Tony Morris is an 8th degree master instructor and co-owner of Asheville Sun Soo Martial Arts, Voted No.1 in WNC for 12 years in a row. He is the host of Positively Asheville’s “First-Tuesday” monthly meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,198],"tags":[141,166,116],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-member-posts","category-recent-posts","tag-asheville-events","tag-leadership-workshop","tag-positively-asheville"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t