Picture: The varying colors of the fallen leaves to gaze upon while in silent thought.
“Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.”~OSHO
Do you give yourself permission to have ALL the thoughts you want to think? Including ALL those dark and at times those perceived unwelcoming thoughts that you would rather not have?
The thoughts that may make you cringe and want to push them out of your mind? The thoughts that may make you sad or you feel/think they are not invited and why are they here?
I know for me “those are important thoughts!”
I love the saying ~
“Don’t believe everything you think!”
I also strive to be “in front of my thinking.” Connecting to the idea that I have free will and the internal capacity to monitor and differentiate my thinking. I can also be discerning about what I want to think. This may sound like a contradiction to my above statements but here is what I am proposing.
If you allow for all the thoughts to move through you without judgment or editing them then I believe that you have more access to the thoughts that you truly want to think. By being really careful and caring with what you think.
When we become adept at teasing apart our thoughts we are better resourced in being able to wade through what we truly want to give our attention to. What we truly want to think!
Think about that!
I am implying that if you take the time and give yourself the opportunity to really allow for all those so-called negative or dark thoughts then you will have more access to the joy and fun in your life.
You may be asking “how is that possible?” My belief around this is that whatever we try to hide, push aside, make-believe it doesn’t exit or ignore, then those thoughts will truly persist. However, I see people being so afraid of “those thoughts” that they would rather just not think them. I am not suggesting that we spiral into an abyss of negativity because that is what certain philosophies will have us believe if we allow ourselves to engage with these thoughts. Just encase them in a form of a “happy bubble” and get on with your life. I don’t believe that to be true or that it is really possible in a conscious and connected thinking process.
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
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This is not a black or white statement. It is a process of watching your thinking and your thoughts and allowing for ALL of them to be accessed and available at your discretion. Then when you have agency over what you are thinking and feeling you will become better able to FEEL into what the thoughts are bringing up in you ~ more fluent and coherent of your thinking patterns and behaviors.
~ You will have the resources to identify where this thought is coming from
~How this thought is informing how your are feeling
~You will become equipped to see the thought for what it might be in the moment ~ possibly a past experience or future thinking
~You will be exercising a muscle of discernment so you can literally see this thought and move into a deeper relationship with the “why or how” of this thought
I do not believe that we have random thoughts. I think all thoughts are based in something that has happened to us or something that we are projecting might happen. When we have a handle on our thinking then “they (our thoughts)” don’t have free rein over our present moment experiences.
We spend our days thinking.
We can spend our days thinking randomly
OR
Wouldn’t you rather be in contact and connection to what you are thinking?
New Thought: You can consciously and through your new awareness THINK about your next thought!
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
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