Your Behavior affects your Thinking

There are some psychological experiments in which people were asked if they would have sex with partners who were considered as physically unattractive and the outcome very much depended on whether or not they were sexually aroused. Before arousal, only a small fraction said they would, whereas in a state of arousal there was a significant jump in interest. Well, I guess you didn't have to run an experiment to get this insight, common sense could have told you that as well. To me, this is just another example that shows that your behavior affects your thought process and your desires, and with it, the next decision you make.

Sometimes I think of a 'personality wheel' that is spinning inside of us. Dependent on the situation we are in, and what kind of psychological triggers we get, we move from one personality trait and one desire to the other. When the wheel is spinning really fast, it is hard to even recognize the person who was on the other side just a short while ago.

The outcomes and the intensity of the states is by no means random. What you do and what choices you make very much determines the next event and your perception of it and reaction to it. The Law of Attraction seems to be at play here. This chain of event is perhaps obvious when it comes to addiction. The alcoholic may still be able to hold back when he passes the liquor cabinet, but once he has opened it and taken the bottle opener in his hands, the addiction train has probably already left the station. You can experiment with this concept yourself. Take one of your New Year's Resolutions and reprogram your behavior for 21 days as many self-help books suggest. As the days go by you can literally study the fog in your head - changing programmed traits temporarily throws the system in disarray - but after a few days the system clears up and you are literally a changed person afterwards. 

 As you do, so you think, and as you think, so you do, so I hope you agree with me the the world can be your oyster if you are making the right choices along the way.