Stop Wasting Time Thinking. The Solution Is Much Simpler To All Of Your Troubles

It Is Known As The Golden Key

Linda Prejean
3 min readJul 24, 2024
Image supplied by author off Venice Beach, California

Worried about money? Concerned about someone else? Career frustration? Turn it over — “Golden Key it.”

Whatever it is, you can stop the thoughts fueling that energy, and do this instead:

Emmet Fox says in his timeless book, “The Golden Key, “Stop thinking about the difficulty, whatever it is, and start thinking about God instead.

Don’t go over every detail of the problem worrying about the outcome. In psychology, this is called ruminating and can leave you feeling like a victim with no solutions and no answers. There is no exit door to ruminating thoughts.

The way is simple: You stop going around and around with the thoughts of the problem, put your mind higher, on a positive thought, or notice something to feel good about.

In other words, think about all that is good in your life, and feel grateful for what you have, even challenges can reveal an uplifting surprise you wouldn’t have noticed without the growth from the experience. Or, think of something that makes you smile — anything positive is thinking of God instead.

We can’t do this life alone. We are Human — Hu/Man. The Hu is spirit, the sound of the

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