Film Courage: Why is thinking bad?
Jocelyn Jones, Acting Teacher/Author: I don't think thinking is bad, I just
think it's overdone. We think all the time all the time, all the time. I had trouble sleeping
last night because of something that's coming up that is a bit of a problem for me and I'm
going to have to figure out how to handle it (in a good way). I started thinking, as I'm thinking
and I'm thinking and I'm thinking and I'm thinking and I'm going Oh my God, I'm driving myself self
crazy with thinking that I'm going nowhere with this thinking. It's just worrying so
too much thinking and worry. How much do we worry? All of that worry is useless thinking. How much
do we think about the past? Oh listen did I say that? Was that okay? I don't know what happened
yesterday with that woman? I don't know? We think about the past, we think about the future,
they don't exist. There is no past. It happened, it's done. There is no future,
it hasn't happened yet. It's going to be born out of your actions right? So we're going to think,
it's a beautiful tool. We're spiritual beings in bodies and we're here to have an experience and
we have these fantastic tools like thinking which is overused and tasting and smelling and hearing
and feeling and touching and hands that can play instruments. It's all pretty much a miracle if you
allow yourself to look at that way but thinking is taken over and thinking thinking it's taken over
because there's so much noise we want to think about these reels I just get a little shot of
Serotonin or dopamine or whatever these reels are giving me and think about what it'd be like if I
had 800,000 people following me I don't know what they're thinking about but it's overused too much
thinking it's not a bad thing but it's way over used. We should probably be thinking 25 percent
of what we're seeing thinking the rest of the time we should be being in a space in the moment
finding yourself in the moment and that's another thing as you find yourself in the
moment and you're able through meditation to kind of create space and just be where human beings
who've forgotten how to be but when we can create space and just be that's where inspiration comes
in that's where things come out of the sky and I'm not outside out of The Ether out of the ethos and
I believe this is a communication from outside ourselves to lead artists we get hits and we get
Inspirations to lead artists to lead Humanity because artists lead Humanity so that doesn't
happen when you're thinking the ego is think the ego loves to think they think about this I think
he likes me I think she's nasty I think I'm going to I'm thinking thinking thinking it's it's it's
too much actually the ego is thinking because they're terrified that we are going to show up
in our power and take over which I believe is what's happening I believe consciousness is
rising very very quickly and the reason that the planet feels so rocky is because the darkness is
right just as quickly it's all happening very quickly kind of like a race and all we can do
is be ourselves be ourselves and raise our vibrational level with joy with gratitude there
are definite ways that you can make yourself feel better and in that this is what I think artists
I think artists think they're their talent they think by the way they think they're their talent
and they get very unhappy with me because I say you're not your talent they don't like that much I
say your talent or your the reason of your talent is your sensitivity artists vibrate at a high
they're very sensitive and they vibrate at a very high frequency and it is in that frequency that
they receive Michelangelo what's in the marble let's see I'll take that away in that way in that
way and I don't know if you've ever seen The David but it just thinking about it it takes your breath
away that a human being created that that comes from the ethos that's your higher consciousness
talking to you I think you talked about in the book that with the higher frequency it
can have a flip side as well so we've seen let's say a Van Gogh or something where
the artist can go to a dark side which can be very detrimental yeah and that's something that
we have to watch as sensitive people yeah yeah and how does he get to the dark side
thinking what do you think was on Van Gogh's mind it's a lot of thinking going on I'm not
good enough I'm too I'm not I can't I don't fit in I don't if you just give people the grace
of just being of just stilling themselves stillness extraordinary just the bounce if
I just do that for one second like that you see the balance of the I don't know maybe he likes me
maybe he doesn't like me maybe I should call maybe I shouldn't call maybe maybe there's something on
my email maybe there's not did they email me I don't know just being practice stillness
practice breathing into your heart what I never say his name right but I'm going to say it anyway
brought you shin or mindfulness to the to the West he says I breathe in I know that I am breathing in
I breathe out I know that I am breathing out that's it this is such a gift to self
five minutes and it's a gift itself because it's a gift to you as a spiritual being not
thinking and not your future or not your past or not any just be here now
five minutes a day and you won't by the way you're thinking we'll come in and go I think that
that's okay it's not bad you just go oh thinking just note it go back to breathing that's the
practice it's like flexing a muscle there is no wrong way to meditate I didn't I didn't want to
meditate I have a busy mind and I thought I'll be terrible at it I don't like to do things I'm
terrible at I'm sure meditation's great but I'm not going to be good at that but then I had to
I felt I had to I had a high blood pressure thing they said oh your blood pressure so I got to take
medications and I'm like no I'm not taking your medications I'm very no medications thank you
so I thought I'll do it with diet and and try diet and meditation and I didn't went down to
normal so I took a class in mindfulness it was wonderful and I realized oh
that's how you flex the muscle you're breathing I breathe in I know that I'm breathing out and I
breathe out I know that I'm breathing out and then I'm thinking oh okay I'm thinking just
note it and go back to breathing just note it that's how you teach yourself to create space
that's a thinking space this is a being space two very different things thank you space Oh
I'm thinking you don't even have to touch it oh okay I'm thinking I think I'll have a
Heyday with this thinking I'm going to go right on with this thinking I like it or oh I'm being
I needed a break from all that thinking I'm hoping we can talk about soul speak I think
in your book you talk about mental chatter and when we have mental chatter we enter a space
where we can't hear soul speak yeah what is that well this is what I was just really talking about
they're different languages on the planet we're just like we're obsessed with thinking
we're obsessed with English we're obsessed with language and English Americans don't even learn
other languages because yeah we got this good language I can't be bothered they all need to
learn to speak English anyway or whatever it is but we were obsessed with language language is a
wonderful tool but like thinking it's it's way over you it's too too much too much talking so
I talk about these things I hope that they're interesting to you but there's
you can have communication with trees and you can have communication with rocks and
you can have communication with the ocean and you can have communication with sky and
you can have communication with animals people understand that they have deep really loving
wonderful communications with their animals you can do the same thing with any life form
on the planet and that that alone if you have to listen for your energy exchange with a tree
then you're able to listen to the counsel of your own heart which is really your higher
consciousness which is really all consciousness we're all the same we're all expressions of the
universe it's very clever the Universe I don't know of all these people and it's they're all
going to have different reflections of me and going to give them all the same tools and go
and then the person would lives in a matrix they they think and they create their life
you're doing it so if you're doing it gone East you can just as well turn the
corner and go west with your own thinking and your own actions and your own desires
so the question was soul speak how do you listen to your soul that happens in Stillness but it
also happens by accepting the fact that it's a different language it's thinking is in English
you don't think in anything but English all your thoughts are like they're language thoughts
listening to your soul is not a language it's an energy exchange like with trees
when when I was little I was I was really lonely so did I talk about the fact that I I had parents
and they were artists but they kind of just put you on the planet and said go and there wasn't
really a lot of hugging or cherishing cherishing is such a beautiful word that we should cherish
each other like a husband and wife cherish each other what does that mean that means that you're
going to practice kindness that means you're going to practice the gratitude of having that
person in your life that's what cherishing is so I don't I don't remember that being a child
and I really thought it should be there I had a lot of ideas of what a parent should be and
people should listen to me and acknowledge me and I had these ideas and it wasn't getting I
wasn't doing well with people it wasn't in love people I didn't find them authentic but I lived
in the woods we lived we had woods surrounding us so I would just go to the woods all day and
it's like being in a Disney movie I mean sometimes I think you sound like Disney it's awesome but I
don't care it's true I had relationships with trees and this one was female and this one was
male and this one I talked to about certain things and this one not and that one I didn't really have
a relationship with and that one I had something went wrong with that one I don't want to go over
there it scares me I was working with energy fields and very communicative and I felt they
raised me I had certain trees that I really took counsel from now what does that mean I mean did
they speak to me no but they it's like having a chiropractic adjustment they would I would maybe
ask questions of the tree or I would look to the tree with my energy field of I am unhappy and lost
and the tree would send back something to my heart that was so soothing it's okay we're here and so
that was kind of my natural state with things and then one day I realized I could communicate
a little more because I was going to school and it was my birthday was coming up and I felt very
on birthday asked I think this was going to be kind of a celebration of my dreams which would
just be for somebody to see me and go Hi how are you what are you doing here what do you want to do
I see you I see that you're special I see you've come for a reason so I was feeling very sorry for
myself and I was going I just don't get it I don't get why they don't see me I mean I came
here I thought I would make my parents happy I should see that joy in their eyes where's the joy
in the eyes they just look kind of worried to me I don't get it and I heard this was not language
but the closest thing a concept and this artist worked with concept all the time the thing comes
in not as language it comes in as concept and how do it's concept because it hits your heart
something moves in you and you go what and it came in we're here and we might just have to be enough
and I would okay that's good I it would be nice to have a third dimensional person somewhere down
the line but I heard it loud and cleared and from that time on I could kind of get around and feel
like okay this is my place my place is these kinds of communications and then later in life it was to
pass those gifts on or those concepts to others who might enjoy them I knew there were going to
be lots of them going foreign that's fine that's fine you you can't be responsible for people's
response you can only be responsible for your intention and what you offer as a human being.