Thought: friend or foe?

By Valdir Aguilera

Have you asked yourself the question in the title of this article? If so, what was your answer? Our answer is this: it depends. It depends?  Depends on what? You can ask. To answer your question and that of the title, we need to know how the thought is produced, what its qualities are and what effects it can produce. Let's go.

Thought is not a product of the brain, like the bile that is secreted by the liver to help the digestion of what we eat. A disincarnated spirit obviously doesn't have a liver. For this simple reason it no longer processes bile. It doesn't have a brain either, yet it keeps thinking. So thinking is not a product of the brain. So what is its origin and how is it produced? 

"Thought is a vibration of the spirit", teaches us Christian Rationalism. It has, therefore, its origin in the spirit and is produced by its vibration. Every vibration emits waves, which propagate in all directions in the medium in which it occurred. To understand this phenomenon, imagine a basin with water. Dipping a pole into it and making it vibrate, waves are noticed which start from the point where the pole touches the water and expand in all directions.

With thought being also a vibration, it could not be different. It produces waves. In what medium do these waves propagate? In the infinite ocean of fluidic matter, where we are all submerged. Having clarified this point, let us return to the question formulated in the title of this article.

First of all, it must be clear that a friendly thought does not mean that we have a friendship with it. It makes no sense, does it not? The question must be understood in the sense of discovering how our thoughts can benefit or harm us.

Thoughts have a quality that has not yet been baptized by researchers. That quality has to do with the feeling that animated the author of the thought at the moment it was issued. This feeling is impregnated in the waves that the thought provokes that travel through space.

Another detail, which will help us answer the question, has to do with the law of affinity (also known as the law of attraction and repulsion). Simply put, this law says that the like attract and the dissimilar repel each other. Applied to thoughts, we learn that thoughts of the same quality attract and of opposite qualities repel.

That said, let us go to the last ingredient we need to get the answer we are looking for. 

Christian Rationalism teaches us that a thought remains linked to its source while the feeling that generated it persists.

There, we already have enough elements to find an answer with certainty.

We have seen that in thinking, we impregnate our thought with a feeling, possibly the cause of it. If it is of optimism, of joy, of the search for knowledge or of any positive nature, then, by the law of attraction we connect ourselves with similar thoughts, of beautiful colors, beneficial thoughts that go around. One important detail is that they will contribute to strengthen that initial feeling of ours. In other words, positive, luminous thoughts are our friends, they do us good.

On the other hand, a thought of defeat, malice, hatred, revenge, envy, dark, sick, negative will attract others of the same quality, intensifying our initial feeling. These are our enemies, they harm us spiritually and physically.

A final comment that will enrich our understanding of thought and its effects. One person, by wishing evil to another, by mentalizing it, emits a thought that goes straight to its destination, like a projectile. If the target person is not feeding similar thoughts at that moment, the thought immediately returns to the one who issued it, by the law of action and reaction, causing the effect of the original intention. Popular wisdom had already noticed this phenomenon. Hence the true saying "the spell turns against the sorcerer".

In the face of all this that has been exposed, watch your thoughts and feelings and make your choice: a friend or an enemy?