How to Use the Power of Your Thoughts

This is an excerpt from the book Creating Your Life: The Channeled Wisdom of Jesus (Unity Books, 2026), in which channeler Christine M. Bush brings forth teachings from Jesus about the power of our thoughts to create our reality, which is a fundamental Unity teaching.

Your thoughts are the most powerful tool you could ever imagine. Your thoughts carry incredible creative force. Your thoughts have created the reality in which you see yourself currently. Your thoughts can change that reality into whatever you would like it to be …

You may have heard of the law of attraction. This is something that has been taught and written about in depth, but little is explained about how the law of attraction works. The law of attraction works because your thoughts send out an energy …

Energy is attracted to its like. So when your energy is sent out into the continuum [the flow of energy that is the Universe or God], other energies in the continuum are attracted to it. The stronger the energy of your thought is, the stronger will be the response to it …

It is important to examine your thoughts and to be sure your thoughts are attracting what you want to attract to you. If you think positive thoughts, positive energy is attracted. If you think negative thoughts, negative energy is attracted …

So you see, your power as a creator is huge. Your power as a creator is one that you have with you at all times. As you look at your future, as you look at what you would like to have in your life, you need only to create it. “How do I do that?” you might ask. You do that by sending positive energy out into the future, which will bring you what you want.

You Are Always Creating

It is as simple as a thought—a thought combined with an emotion, an emotion of passion, an emotion of enthusiasm, an emotion of positivity. When you combine the energy of a thought with the amplifying emotions of positivity, then nothing can stop your creative powers.

You are not a victim. Much that is before you today is what you thought of in the past, either consciously or unconsciously. Much that is before you was created by your thoughts and, if you created what you face now, how could you not be able to create what you face in the future? It all follows energy …

Energy is reality. Energy is who you are. Energy is what everything else is. Energy is all that is … When you realize that, so much becomes apparent. Your power as a creator becomes apparent. Your power to impact others becomes apparent. The power of others to impact you becomes apparent. So much becomes clear when you think of the world as only energy, when you think of yourself as only energy. It is difficult when your physical world appears so solid to your senses to think that it is all energy. But it is, and when you see it as energy then everything seems to make more sense. Everything becomes understandable.

Living in a Field of Energy

Energy is very simple yet complex. Its complexity lies in the fact that your conscious mind cannot comprehend that you are energy existing in a field of energy and you are one with that energy. Your conscious mind is trying to categorize everything into familiar little boxes. Of course, you understand that things are energy, but until you actually feel it and experience it, become a part of it and become enveloped by it, you cannot fully understand how much power you have. You cannot fully understand how energy impacts upon other energies.

Do not let complexities of this thought deter you from pursuing it. For when you pursue the understanding of energy, the entire universe opens up to you. You see, all creation took place as a matter of energies coming together in various ways … Everything that has occurred since creation took place simply was the result of energies interacting with energies.

Your soul is very familiar with energy. Your soul is energy. Your soul understands the entire universe is nothing but energy. Your soul is working in a field of knowledge of energy. Therefore, your soul is working in a field that your conscious mind does not truly understand …

Your physical body is meant to go through that life to learn and to grow. But it is also necessary for you to understand that learning and growth take place in a field of energy. Once you understand that, you understand how everything you do impacts upon your soul's growth. Once you understand that you are a piece of the energy of all that is, you are able to understand the role that you play in creating that world, in creating your life …

Once you understand that a thought is not just an empty thing, once you understand that a thought has actual impact upon energies around you, then you pay more attention to your thoughts. Once you understand that all your emotions are energy, you are more aware of how those emotions impact others, the world, and yourself. And that awareness, that understanding, makes you more cautious about your thoughts, makes you more careful about your emotions.

Low and High Vibrations of Energy

You do understand that your emotions, your thoughts of anger, violence, and fear, are very low vibrational thoughts and emotions. They bring down the vibration of your soul and the vibration of the universe. They feed into other low vibrational energies that are around you and they attract those energies to you. So be cautious. Be cautious of what you are attracting to yourself.

Now, it is only natural in that physical life that you will have occasional negative thoughts. This cannot be avoided. But do not fear that every passing negative thought will be manifesting something negative in your life. In order for something to be manifested, you must truly believe in it and you must attach emotions to it and send it out into the universe …

On the other hand, the vibration of love is a very high vibration. It is a vibration that attracts other high vibrations to it. It attracts to you beings and things that are high vibration. This high vibration of love radiates throughout the universe and changes other vibrations. The vibration of love is the vibration that changes the lower vibrations. Only love can do that.

So be conscious of what you are radiating out into the universe. Understand what you are attracting to yourself. Understand how all that you say and think is energy. All that you say and think attracts like energy to you. When you truly understand this, no vibration is possible other than love. For why would you ever send out vibrations that would attract low vibrations to you? You would not. Those emotions are not fun to experience. Those emotions are not where you wish to dwell. Be very conscious about what you send out into the universe, for what you send out is what you will receive.