Breakthroughs in thinking

Read an amazing story about a man on a cruise. Sick for four days. Every time he ventured from his stateroom, within minutes was hanging over the rail gasping for air. What a way to spend a 7 day cruise. Luckily on the fourth day after trying every remedy, meditation, and eating method, he again ventures topside. Again to find himself hanging over the rail. Only this time to his surprise the captain appears next to him, seemingly out of nowhere. "Not feeling so well," he says. The man thinks one thing and then says, "no, not really." The captain offers a rememdy and asks him to do a small test. The man agrees reluctantly, as he has tried everything he knows of, but is willing to try anything that may relieve him of this sickness. The captain deftly takes the man's sunglasses off and asks him to look at him and breathe. To the man amazement he begins to feel better in only moments. His head is clear and he actually feels well in only a minute or two. He asks the captain what he did. The captain smiles and says he has seen this sort of thing many times...the glasses he was wearing had a green tint to them that cast on everyone he looked at. Without the man knowing his subconscious interpreted as everyone being sick...so he should join them. Strange how we view our lives through "colored glasses" and are unaware many times of the hue it casts and what our inner mechanisms interpret them as, even though when examined from a clear perspective we find the information we based our decions on was not factual at all...only a perspective we had in a moment.
I challenge myself daily to become aware of these sorts of "views" in my life. Only through the learning of what "breakthrough thinking" is do I begin to grasp on deeper levels what changes these. Breakthrough thinking asks us to consider a situation we want to change and first raise our expectations to higher than we have previously believe is possible. It is only then that the creative subconscious will engage to find a way to solve this new challenge...and solve it it will!