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Nearly everything that we do is because of a thought, no matter how aware of it we are. A thought is the catalyst to all actions. There may only be a quick lapse of time between the thought and the action, but the thought always prefaces the action.

Our mind is a thing, and motion, its action. The though is first, even if by a fraction of a millisecond. It is still first.

To create a symphony, first a note must be put to paper, and then another and so on. The completed symphony can either then be accepted or changed. Either way, it is a thought process from start to finish.

However, without musicians to read the music and to play, to give it life, it is nothing more than notes on a paper. The eye reads the note, the hand plays the instrument, and music is given life. All action is a direct result of a thought.

Man creates machines but without them, they are just tools. A rake is useless unless we pick it up and use it. A car does nothing unless we drive it. A mind is a thing and we must use it! Do you see the connection? There is an interconnection of all things and how they relate and interact with each other.

Let us look at the motion of walking. To life our leg the muscles must bunch and contract giving motion to the leg. The muscles of the leg only contracted because a nerve impulse to the muscle told that particular muscle to contract and move.

Our brain sent the nerve impulse to the muscle. Our thought that we needed to move is what triggered our brain to send the nerve impulse that told the muscle to contract, which moved the leg. All actions of the body are done by thinking; we truly are powered by our thoughts.

Often we must react to something outside of the mind, without giving it much thought. However, these reactions are still the product of thinking.

For example, talking a walk in the park and seeing a football game not too far away, and then hearing somebody call out to “watch out”; you look up and put an arm up just in time to deflect the ball. You gave no conscious thought to the action yet your eye saw the ball coming towards you and told your brain to raise your arm. You had a split second to act and in that split second the thought to protect your face were there, the thought triggered the chain of events that raised your arm, protecting you.

The mind is the driving force of the body. Without it, we are just a shell, unable to move, to express, or think. The mind/body connection is a wonderful thing. Our bodies operate without us thinking about the various tasks, but our mind knows what must be done and gives the appropriate signals. The workings of our organs, we do not control that by conscious thought, but our minds control it all the same.

Therefore, our bodies work in a twofold manner, there are the actions that are done by unconscious thought, such as the workings of our organs, and then there is the actions that are brought about by thought.

Our bodies are wonderful and amazing delicate organic machinery and each movement a harmonic action that showcases the mind/body connection.

Our everyday lives are full of these thoughts put into action in thousands of different ways and we are not aware of the mechanics of it. We want to write a letter but we do not have to focus on the pen, nor each movement of the pen on paper to write.

However, give a small child a pen and ask them to write a letter and watch them. The way they hold the pen may be awkward and there are pauses between letters while the child thinks about how to write them.

We, as adults, have learned the letters already and so the thought we put into the letter writing process is far less than what a child of four or five would have to.

The same thing applies to our thinking positive. At first, we might have to think about our thoughts and actions to make sure they are on the right track. After a while, it is easier for us because we are used to it, we have learned how to and it comes to us with ease.