21 Ways to Turn Your Thoughts to Hope

Common obstacles to success include fear, self-doubt, and other crippling thoughts. But what if all you had to do to tame these uglies was cultivate hope?

The power of hope is grounded firmly in spiritual and religious practices but also in science. Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, Leonardo da Vinci, and even 18th-century physicians recognized the physiological effects of mind-power and hope on the body. 

Successful medical outcomes, even when the intervention is a placebo, further evidence the impact of maintaining a positive expectation. If like me, you’ve manifested miracles in your own life, by maintaining a positive expectation, you’ll know the power of hope.

Thoughts do become things. Scientists Gregg Braden and also Bruce Lipton, author of The Biology of Belief, have evidenced this.

But hope can only flourish when you believe that what you do can make a difference, that you recognize that you have choices and that your actions can create a future which differs from your present situation.

When you empower your belief in your ability to gain some control over your circumstances, you are no longer entirely at the mercy of forces outside yourself. You are back in the driving seat.

What you believe has a tremendous influence on the likelihood of success. Reframe your fears and buoy your dreams with hope. Not, “I’m afraid of failing ” but “I hope to succeed,” or something similar.

21 ways to turn your thoughts to hope

1. Set achievement goals—not avoidance goals
2. Take steps—no matter how small, every day toward your goals
3. Create more joy
4. Surround yourself with positive, hopeful, optimistic people
5. Affirm the positive
6. Visualize a positive outcome
7. Pray
8. Journal your way to  help
9. Be solution, not obstacle, focused
10. Let go. Hope has a harder job when you hang onto things that no longer serve you
11. Act as if
12. Manage your words, thoughts, and feelings
13. Tell yourself, “everything is working out for my highest good,” or something similar when setbacks threaten to knock your hope
14. Remind yourself, “this too will pass,” when crap happens. Nothing is permanent. Nothing!
15. Meditate
16. Colour therapy
17. Essential oils
18. Rest and sleep
19. Diet
20. Spirituality, faith
21. Let desire, not fear, lift you higher. Do the thing you fear and desire will triumph

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” ~ Arianna Huffington

This is an edited extract from The Art of Success: How Extraordinary Artists Can Help You Succeed in Business and Life (Book One: Leonardo da Vinci) by Cassandra Gaisford.

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