Think It, Be It

By Tommy Leung on 08/04/2010 in Life

A million self help books and million self help guru’s have touted this exact concept: think it and it will become true. Generally speaking, I have found this to have always been true. I’m not talking about The Secret which borderlines on the ridiculous. No matter how hard I envision a parking spot in Downtown Manhattan in the middle of the day, one is not going to magically appear where I want it to other than by mere coincidence.

The ideas behind the Law of Attraction are entirely real. There is power to positive thinking. I was never able to prove it until one night at the gym. Awesome things often happen to me and I am often in a positive frame of mind. It’s a correlation that I couldn’t prove to be a causation. After all, I could just be really lucky.

The gym is one of the few places where I can completely clear my mind and get to an almost primal state. Where all of life’s troubles disappear and there’s only one goal at a hand. A very simple one too: dominate the heaviest weights possible. In this clear-headed state, I sometimes make revelations.

As proof that positive thinking can and does have an effect on the physical world, I can lift heavier when I think positive thoughts than when I think negative ones.

This guy believed.

I’m not looking to die at the gym–would be a waste of a life–and sometimes a wave of concern that I can’t lift a weight will set and I won’t be able to immediately shake it. My lifts during this frame of mind always feels harder and my form is always worse. But, if I can then change my frame of mind, I am able to lift the same exact weight easier and in good form. I will even be able to go heavier as long as my thinking stays positive.

It’s safe to say that I didn’t magically get significantly stronger in a span of a minute. The only thing that changed was the type of thoughts I had: positive or negative.

When I believed that I could, I was able to. Think it, be it.