Hello there, when we are thinking. We are not present with all of us
We're not present with our bodies were not present with the way that we feel
We're engaged only in the thoughts as they continuously unfold
regardless of where those thoughts take us whether they be positive or negative in
This process is highly unconscious
Unconscious to the degree that most of the time even though we're completely involved with our own thoughts. We have no idea. We're actually thinking
In the Modern world [the] cope with our minds
If something is too painful to experience, physically or emotionally because we feel powerless to change it
We cope by retreating into the mind. We give thought all of our attention pretty soon
we don't rule [the] mind the mind rules us instead A
thought is only as powerful as the interest that you give it [a]
Thought that's not interesting to the mind the mind doesn't actually think
exists
The only thing which the - convinced exists is something that it has interest in
Which is partly why you're not really conscious of what you've been [thinking] about for the most part
The mind is not ever present because thoughts that are being responded to by the law of attraction are always about what's next
[it] is [the] mechanism for expansion
The you that is getting pulled in or sucked in
The aspect of you that can have interest to [these] thoughts is
the real you it's the you that exists Beyond the thoughts if
You were actually your thoughts. You couldn't observe them if
You were your thoughts. You couldn't say
Oh, I was thinking about fill in the blank or I was having the thought fill in the blank
This is what we've been calling the spirit or the soul
What's essential is for the soul to watch and observe?
The thoughts that are [being] thought not only by itself
But also being perceived by itself thoughts that may not even belong to it
You can't look at your thoughts and be inside them at the same time
The best way [to] understand. This is almost like an artist
Can't also be his own painting and yes painting is still an extension of himself
But here's where your thought to get a bit more complex?
Thoughts aren't only created by your mind
The reality is your thought does not only create thoughts it also perceived thoughts thoughts that may not even belong to you
So let's say for example that you get on an airplane, and you sit down in the seat, and you think about a plane crash
Because the law of attraction responds to thoughts not just things you
[if] you focus on that plane crash for only
16 seconds
will begin a chain of
[attraction]
Where any salt that's been thought that may be residual in that plane may be thought by other passengers
May be passengers who rode the plane before?
Will now be perceived by your mind, and you'll perceive them as your own
This is usually what causes us to spiral downward into a panic?
This [is] [a] problem because if we do this for just over a minute
We begin to attract physical experiences that are a match to the frequency of those thoughts
For example if we're in panic because of the thought of crashing in an airplane we tend to attract experiences that enhance the panic
Things like Turbulence or electrical malfunctions or meeting people that have been in plane crashes before
Because thoughts attract thoughts we can see this as a kind of momentum an unconscious momentum
So the best way to understand this because the analogies momentum is a runaway train
Thoughts attract more thoughts attract more thoughts of a like
Frequency and because they're of a similar frequency and it tends to make [us] feel even more
Exaggerated emotion we tend to spiral downwards and feel worse and worse and worse [works]
Because this kind of thought train is like a runaway train
Literally one of the best things that we can do if we want [to] halt that process of manifestation and also emotional
Discomfort is to learn how to stop thought
To learn how to pull the momentum out of it
Stopping thought is like stopping the momentum of a runaway train, so you can direct it instead
Directing thought is quite
Powerful not just for your own life experience terms value feel but also which are capable of manifesting here
Doing this is to put your own mind in the position to be used like an instrument instead of being used by your own mind
So the first thing to understand about stopping thought is you cannot not think about something
We live in a universe that is based on the law of attraction
That's essentially a lot of inclusion it means there is no
thing is
Exclusion in this universe there is no such thing [as] not
So for example let's say I say don't think about lemons
You're thinking about lemons and the more that you try to not think about lemons the more you think about lemons?
So what does this teach [us] you can't not think about?
So how do you stop thought then what you do is you pick something?
One very simple and small thought to focus all of your attention on
You dedicate all of your attention to that thought or that thing you make sure that the thing you're focusing on is not a complex
Or a big thought also make sure it is something you don't have [a] lot of [ceiling] or other thoughts about
some of my own personal [favourites] are the image of a blue sky a white sheet of paper [a]
part of my body like my knee
the sound of my own breathing the sound of a faucet or air conditioner a
solid color that appeals to me on a given day a
Mantra or a heartbeat
You will notice that when thoughts come to you
they come to you like a
Wormhole or like the opening of a vacuum cleaner that kind of suck you in they have a sort of gravity all of our own
What they're trying to do is Rob your attention?
now the issue is as soon as they rob your attention and you lend your attention to it you increase the point of attraction [of]
That thought and it's a match to other thoughts and other thoughts and other thoughts and pretty soon
You are watching a linear storyline that is taking you in the opposite direction of [the] thing you want it to actually be focused on
for example instead of focusing on a blank blue sky
Perhaps you'll realize you have relived an event that happened earlier [that] day. It's like a trance when
[this] happens this hijacking. [I] want you to say it out loud
The thought [that] you were thinking or in your own mind
so for example if I am trying to focus on a blue sky
And I notice that I'm thinking a thought about what happened that day. [I] will say mentally to myself or [Outloud]
Thinking, I thought about the situation I have heard earlier today
when you do that you have sex out of that wormhole out of that chain of thinking you are observing it instead and
Because you have called it out on that's showing up, and you're standing outside of it. You have halted the momentum
And you have stopped the gravity of that
Train of thought
You're watching it instead of actively thinking it
When you do this exercise you will notice your mind rebelling
like a Wild horse
it will fight for your attention, [but]
[soon] the thoughts will subside. You will feel the [peace] of focusing on what feels like nothing
So what I'm asking for you to do is to not get frustrated when this process happens
When this process happens simply direct your attention back to whatever simple thing you decided to focus on
if your thoughts are particularly pervasive either visually or
Auditorally you can add a variation to the exercise and that is to create some distancing from the thoughts that you're thinking
for example if I have pervasive visual thoughts
Maybe if I'm trying to focus on something [like] a blank color
It constantly gets hijacked by an image of another thought that I'm thinking I
May see
The image of that thought that popped up as a piece of paper that crumples and goes into a waste paper basket
So I have somewhere to put it or to put them
perhaps if I'm focusing on a blue sky
[I] may see the thoughts that are trying to hijack my attention as clouds that drift past my vision
If they are a pervasive auditory thought you can imagine hearing a vacuum sucking each one of them in as they show up
So you can't hear them anymore?
Feel free to get as creative with this as you would like to
with ways to lovingly disable the thoughts as they try to rob your attention and just
Continue [to] redirect your attention back to the original thing you chose to focus on
Make sure that when they stop come up to Rob your attention. You don't begin to resist them in other words
You don't pull away from them, and you also don't try to block them all
That does is [in] fact feed them with more energy
so instead you want to take this attitude of lovingly acknowledging and accepting the point of even welcoming the fact that they have come and
Lovingly organizing them in the direction of where you want them to go so that they aren't the ones that are ruling you?
Expect it in the beginning especially but potentially for the remainder of [your] practice this will be how it is
this continual attempt of the thoughts to Rob your attention and the
Continual redirecting your focus back towards something else so don't get frustrated
With this if no matter what you do, you can't stop the thoughts from coming
That's not the point the [point] is to be able to control your own
Momentum and Momentum in this universe is attention
Know that the more you practice this the more easy it becomes
Soon you'll be able to stop thought even without closing your eyes
Practicing stopping the thought not only means that you pull the momentum out of the painful
Chain of attraction and process of creation which you can be engaged in unconsciously in life
And you can consciously put all [of] the momentum of your attention in the direction of things that feel good and thus
Creations that feel good. I cannot tell you how good life can feel
Once you realize you have this choice
Have a good week