4 Steps to Ponderonit
Step One: Think it
Thinking virtuous thoughts is much more difficult than one would imagine. The practice just isn't there, that's all. We've all been educated to think that all that rumbling and grumbling we do in our minds doesn't matter. Well, it does. Bad habits of thought produce bad habits in speech and actions. Bad habits can be replaced with good habits! Being kind to the self in thoughts attracts kindness to us. Don't just poo poo the idea if you haven't given it a real go.
Step Two: Say it
Insert it into conversation. Affirm it. Repeat it. Put your heart into it. Eventually you'll see that it's better to feel awkward about saying things like, “I'm so stupid” rather than feeling awkward and deceitful by saying things like, “I'm an intelligent human being” or even “I'm a genius.” Help yourself get past the feeling of awkwardness by practice, practice and more practice. Be determined to uplift yourself. Remember, if you don't think about it first though you won't be able to say it. We can only speak what we think. Hmmm. Ponderonit.
Step Three: See it
After awhile you'll begin to observe the word around you. We draw to us what we think on. You may actually see the word in print or hear someone on the television use the word. Someone close to you may use the word in conversation. You may observe others treating you with the quality you are thinking on. Seeing it helps give credence to this process. Through observation you will begin to see that what you place your attention on manifests out into the world and back again.
Step Four: Be it
The embodiment of the principle is everything. Pondering and thinking on what is compassion makes us want to speak compassionately and we begin to see compassion manifesting around us where before we saw none. Eventually, we become living embodiments of compassion. If you want to change the world change your thoughts, speech and actions. Thinking on virtues makes us speak more deliberately and intelligently. This way of being in turn makes our actions impact the world more profoundly. We can only become the things that we repeat in life. The repetition of good thoughts, good words and good actions means that ultimately we are protected by that goodness.
Ponderonit in Summary:
- Intensifies our ability to have the confidence to live in love.
- Heightens our intuitive awareness and softens hard judgmental conclusions.
- Deepens our faith that we are in reality divine beings having an Earth walk.
- Lessens our focus on what others are thinking about me, me, and me and increases our awareness of us, we, and oneness.
- Reveals what is meant by the ancient concept of like attracts like to itself.
- Develops greater concentration skills, which can be applied for anything you are participating in.
- Focuses on courage and solutions not fear and problems.
- Reduces the habit of worry and anxiety by replacing it with new habits of thinking, speaking and being.
- Gives us the courage to replace feeling sorry for our self with compassion for the self and others.
- Creates inclusion. Anyone can join in, even children.