What a Beautiful Mind: Beauty and Your Thoughts

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Bad thoughts occur to everyone. Some people (I'm one of them) suffer from intrusive thoughts. It is painful, and it takes a lot of striving on my part to thrust them away.

It is hard, it is not impossible. And when I fill my mind with good thoughts, the bad ones have less power. I don't try to hide from them anymore, and I have become more careful about the images I allow into my mind (via media).

One of the reasons to keep a list of gifts that you receive is by doing so you direct your thoughts to the beautiful within your life. They inspire you to think joyful thoughts, to look at the world with caring.

View the beautiful in others. Make a point of noticing and marking down in your journals beautiful events, kindnesses, medical advances,  amazing inventions etc. etc. that happen in the world, that make the world a better place. When you allow your mind to see the wonderfulness that is out there, you raise your thoughts to the good and beautiful.

At least is how I see a beautiful mind. A mind that focuses on what is good in the world, and attempts to bring that beauty to others.

What beautiful thoughts do you have today? What beautiful things are about you right now?