Law of Attraction Classics: Dynamic Thought - "Right Channel" Thought - HT Hamblin
The Right Channel is an exercise to simply learn the difference between constructive thought and destructive thought. It's simple, yet it can be the most powerful thing you'll ever do for your mind. In this blog post, I will give you a guided example of how to find your "Right Channel" and make it part of your daily practice.
To begin this process, let us first define what we are talking about when we talk about thoughts:
A thought is a representation of some idea that exists in our minds. The vast majority of thoughts we have are positive representations that help create our reality or push our life forward in a positive way. It is this positive representation that we call constructive thought. Constructive thoughts are the opposite of destructive thoughts and they are the ones called upon when we want to manifest something important in our lives. It's not always easy to distinguish constructive thinking from destructive thinking, but it doesn't take much to see that there is a difference. As an example, let us say I was a surfer and I was thinking about surfing. If I have never surfed before, then imagining myself surfing would be only a fantasy and nothing more. But if I have surfed in the past, then imagining myself surfing again might be me simply recalling memories of something fun I did in the past. The imagined experience is quite different. In this second scenario, I am having a constructive thought.
When you sit down to meditate, you do it with the idea of manifesting something important in your life. It's not like going to the gym and working out to burn calories so that you can eat food later. You'll be thinking about something important in your life and you want to bring it into manifestation as quickly as possible. So the meditation process becomes a two-step process: Step 1 : Find your "Right Channel" (the constructive thought) and Step 2: Manifest the "Good Stuff" (the positive thought) into reality. To do this, you must have the ability to differentiate between thoughts that are positive, constructive and useful and thoughts that appear negative or destructive. You'll learn how to find your "Right Channel" in this blog post.
Let's say I was thinking about a mountain I climbed and then I was thinking about surfing waves. Both of these thoughts might be forming simultaneously in my mind and both are conscious, but one is constructive while the other is destructive. If I want to manifest something good into my life quickly, then I must contrast or compare the two: Can they be compared? If they can be compared, then they probably belong together in the same thought pattern. If not, then you have to eliminate one thought. If they cannot be compared and they are conflicting with each other, then you must eliminate the destructive thought.
This is where I get asked a lot of questions:
"How can I control or eliminate destructive thoughts?" "What if there are no constructive thoughts to compare them to?" "How do I erase negative thoughts?"
So let's tackle each one of these questions individually: How can we destroy a negative thought? We can't. We don't want to destroy them because we want them for something useful. They are just ideas that exist in our mind and we want to capture the good ones (the constructive) and erase the bad ones (the destructive). How can we find our "Right Channel"? This can be a difficult process to figure out, but it's worth the effort. If you look closely at the two thoughts above that are having a negative or destructive conflict (the mountain climbing and surfing), they are actually quite different. They are coming from two different parts of your mind and they have nothing to do with each other. There is no room for them in the same thought pattern. How can we delete or erase these thoughts? It's not something you will be able to do by yourself. The only way would be if someone told you that these thoughts don't exist anymore, erased them and gave them another thought pattern instead. But this just doesn't happen in life. Instead, you have to ask yourself if these thoughts are useful, constructive or destructive and you should use the comparison process (described above) to figure out which one they are. If they are constructive and useful, then they will continue to exist in your mind and will be used as part of your daily meditation practice because they help you manifest something important into your life quickly. If they are destructive, then you must find a new way to think about them that is positive or helpful so that you can replace them with something more constructive instead.
Let's say I had a conflict between two thoughts in my mind like this: I am worried about my performance at work. I am trying to figure out how I can improve and get better at my work. These are both thoughts that are constructive, but they are conflicting with each other. I want to be more productive, but I also want to be happy at work. If I think about how to improve, then it's a problem because I will act in a way that will make me unhappy and cause conflict with my coworkers. If on the other hand, I think about how happy at work is important for me, then that also becomes a problem because eventually the company will notice my efforts and they might fire me or they might stop giving me raises or promotions…etc. The solution is just to find another constructive thought that won't conflict with the first one. I might think about how to get promoted and still be happy at work. I might think about how to make all my coworkers happy, or I might just think about how to be happy in general at work.
Sometimes you'll find your "Right Channel" right away and sometimes it will take some time, but the more you practice the more you will get accustomed to the method of doing this right away. In meditation, you won't have this problem as much because there are no destructive thoughts either. So if I was meditating on something that was important in my life, then my mind would be completely clear because there are no destructive thoughts trying to take it over. This means that it is easy to find your "Right Channel" because there are no conflicting thoughts at all. You will have a very clear mind when you meditate and that means you can use the comparison process (described above) to quickly determine which thought pattern is constructive, useful and important and which one isn't. In this way, you can quickly remove any destructive thought by simply contrasting it with a more positive or constructive thought.
Now let's go back to my example of trying to manifest something into my life immediately: I want to manifest my desire for world peace into my life right now. I went through the steps I described above, but could not come up with anything other than "I want world peace. I hope world peace comes to me soon and this is a good thing for all of us." So, for now, I have to leave it at that. But I will continue to meditate on this thought until something happens (or doesn't) that makes me feel happy about it so that it can be part of my daily meditation practice. Sometimes in meditation I'm able to find something like "I want world peace… I hope world peace comes to me soon and this is a good thing" and I write these down and then later read them again in the morning before starting my day.
Conclusion
So there you have it…my technique for removing negative thoughts that are causing conflict in your life. There is no one right way to do this and this is just how I do it. Sometimes the process of eliminating destructive thoughts is a bit difficult and it can take a few days or even weeks until you feel completely free of them. However, you will be able to remove these thoughts quickly and easily once you start using the method I described above which will help you get rid of these negative thoughts as soon as possible.
The inspiration for this blog was an article by Abraham Hicks titled "How to Clear Your Mind" which is a great read that explains the same things in more detail (click here to read).