\u201cR<\/span>emember, happiness doesn\u2019t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Buddha is often credited with that quote, its origin doesn\u2019t really matter. Few people would dispute its message. So, if most people would agree that our thoughts determine how we feel, then why are we not good at monitoring our thoughts? The analogy of \u201cthe three rooms\u201d can help.<\/p>\n From the three rooms perspective, our thoughts can only be in one of three places: the past (the \u201cpast room\u201d), the future (the \u201cfuture room\u201d), or the present (the \u201cpresent room\u201d). Whatever room our thoughts are in determines our experience of life in that moment.<\/p>\n Since our thoughts can move back-and-forth in the linear concept of time, it\u2019s imperative that we observe our thoughts. It\u2019s that act of observation that separates our awareness from our thoughts so we are no longer affected by them. This awareness, or consciousness, is what all the spiritual masters have urged us to connect with.<\/p>\n In order to access this divine consciousness, we need to know where our thoughts are. That\u2019s why the fundamental question that we need to ask ourselves is \u201cwhere am I?\u201d In other words, \u201cwhere are my thoughts?\u201d If you can ask and answer that simple question, you\u2019ve already separated your awareness from your thoughts. Unlike the physical body, our thoughts can be in one of three places, and each place leads to a different experience of life.<\/p>\n When our thoughts are in the past room, we continuously think of events that have caused us to feel negative emotions based on what we perceive others to have said or done to us\u2014or us to them. We tend to dwell on those thoughts, which further perpetuates the negative emotions they generate. Resentment, guilt, anger, and shame are a few of the emotions we feel when our thoughts are in the past room.<\/p>\n This is when we think about all the things that could go wrong and we focus on the worst-case scenarios. We look around at what is, and we project the image of what we don\u2019t have into the future. The feeling of stress and anxiety that this creates is what actually pushes away the things we desire.<\/p>\n When our thoughts are stuck in the past or future rooms, we\u2019re constantly seeing the world as separate from us. So, we feel the separation from our own higher self. That is the singular cause of the negative emotions we feel in the past and future rooms.<\/p>\n Instead of looking at what is, this is when we focus on what can be. There is an absence of negative thought, so there is nothing preventing us from feeling our connection to our source. The love that we feel when we are in communion with our higher self is the feeling that allows us to attract what we desire into our lives.<\/p>\n If we are going to observe which room our thoughts are in, we need to better understand the thoughts that we are observing.<\/p>\n A thought is a vibration that is stored as energy in a field of potential probabilities, waiting to manifest.<\/p>\n This field of energy has had many names. It\u2019s sometimes called divine consciousness, prana, or the Akashic field. Other times, it is called the quantum vacuum, ether, or the zero-point field. No matter what name you apply to it, it is the source energy that makes up all there is.<\/p>\n All the inspired ideas we receive, and the negative thoughts we produce, are stored in the same field of potential probabilities (FoPP). It is up to us to determine which ones we access based on the vibrations we are producing in any moment.<\/p>\n When our emotions resonate with the same vibrational frequency as our higher self, we are able to interpret those vibrations in the form of inspired ideas. This is what happens when our thoughts are in the present room.<\/p>\n When our emotions are not in alignment with our higher self, we are interpreting vibrations based on what we see and hear in the form of resistant thoughts. This is what happens when our thoughts are in the past and future Rooms.<\/p>\n In the movie The Greatest Showman, P. T. Barnum, played by Hugh Jackman, makes a birthday present for his daughter. He tells her, \u201cThis is a wishing machine. You tell it your wishes, and it keeps them safe until they come true. Even if you forget them, they\u2019re always there.\u201d<\/p>\n Wouldn\u2019t that be amazing if there were a real wishing machine? Well, there is. It\u2019s the FoPP. Your wishes are just thoughts from your imagination. They are stored in the FoPP until your vibrational frequency lines up with them, even if you forget them. If you feel negative emotions about something you\u2019re wishing for, the manifestation of that wish will sit patiently in the FoPP, waiting for you to align with the feeling of the wish being fulfilled.<\/p>\n Because your wish is just a thought, it will manifest if you will align with it. The only way to be in alignment with your wish is to feel as if it has already come true. The feeling is everything.<\/p>\n When your thoughts are stuck in the past or future Rooms, you won\u2019t be able to align vibrationally with your wish because your thoughts are in a room that doesn\u2019t bring you joy. There is always a gap between when we make a wish and when it manifests. You must enjoy the gap. Otherwise, the manifestation won\u2019t come.<\/p>\n The doubt caused by our negative emotions is the substance that prevents our wishes from being fulfilled. The irony is that if you don\u2019t feel the joy as if your desire is already fulfilled, then it can\u2019t come to pass. But if you feel the joy of it manifesting before you can see it, then you will feel the joy again once it does manifest.<\/p>\n That is what is meant by \u201ctwice felt.\u201d<\/p>\n In the past and future rooms, you don\u2019t feel the joy and your wish never comes true. In the present room, you get to feel it twice and it does come true. It\u2019s your choice.<\/p>\n Where am I? Past, present or future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-summer-2019","category-spring-summer-2019-features"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9152,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions\/9152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyaging.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Past Room<\/h3>\n
The Future Room<\/h3>\n
The Present Room<\/h3>\n
Kevin Murphy is the author of The Three Rooms: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life<\/em><\/a>, published by River Grove Books \u00a92018, paperback. For more info, visit: TheThreeRooms.com<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"