Tuesday, November 14, 2006
You are what you think...that's a bunch of B.S.
How many of us have been condioned in our belief system with statements like:
You are what you think. Think and grow rich. As a man thinketh, so is he. Think Big.
If you are challenged with chronic pain caused by inner tension? Thinking is the problem, not the solution.
Why? because most of your thinking is un-conscious drama in the past digging up resentment or anger...or it is in the future
thinking about how this is going to work, what if this happens, or when this happens then all is okay. (worry, expectation, self-consciousness, controlling)
The big problem with all this thinking is that this is how you repress your emotions. You repress your emotions with your conditioned mental patterns of thinking. You think this is normal & natural because everyone does it.
Then we go thinking for ways to fix all this stuff. more thinking, more repressing, more pain.
How do we get out of this mess? Use your thinking to help you become aware of your self? "what am I feeling right now?
and then really feel what you are feeling right now. that is not thinking, that is experiencing what you are feeling.
Use your thinking to switch from low energy (complaining, judging, resenting, searching, controlling) to a higher energy thought. (appreciation, gratitude, contribution,) or switch to something that makes you feel good. Think about something you want that you know when you get that want it will make you feel good.
Why would you want to do that? So that you can be in that feel good place. Use your thoughts to switch from repressing thought patterns which never make you feel good---just try it, when you are complaining, judging, angry, controlling, worrying,...ask yourself how you feel and then take a moment to feel how you feel?
now think about something you appreciate about yourself. think about something you are grateful for, think about something you really want and now image that you have it....how do those thts make you feel? now feel that way. stay in that feeling.
now, quit analyzing this exercise. intellectualism is a repression activity. and realize that you are what you feel. you are what you feel. what you feel is real. let your thinking get you out of repression and into a feeling place....any feeling place and then feel. stop thinking and just experience what you feel.
Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com
You are what you think. Think and grow rich. As a man thinketh, so is he. Think Big.
If you are challenged with chronic pain caused by inner tension? Thinking is the problem, not the solution.
Why? because most of your thinking is un-conscious drama in the past digging up resentment or anger...or it is in the future
thinking about how this is going to work, what if this happens, or when this happens then all is okay. (worry, expectation, self-consciousness, controlling)
The big problem with all this thinking is that this is how you repress your emotions. You repress your emotions with your conditioned mental patterns of thinking. You think this is normal & natural because everyone does it.
Then we go thinking for ways to fix all this stuff. more thinking, more repressing, more pain.
How do we get out of this mess? Use your thinking to help you become aware of your self? "what am I feeling right now?
and then really feel what you are feeling right now. that is not thinking, that is experiencing what you are feeling.
Use your thinking to switch from low energy (complaining, judging, resenting, searching, controlling) to a higher energy thought. (appreciation, gratitude, contribution,) or switch to something that makes you feel good. Think about something you want that you know when you get that want it will make you feel good.
Why would you want to do that? So that you can be in that feel good place. Use your thoughts to switch from repressing thought patterns which never make you feel good---just try it, when you are complaining, judging, angry, controlling, worrying,...ask yourself how you feel and then take a moment to feel how you feel?
now think about something you appreciate about yourself. think about something you are grateful for, think about something you really want and now image that you have it....how do those thts make you feel? now feel that way. stay in that feeling.
now, quit analyzing this exercise. intellectualism is a repression activity. and realize that you are what you feel. you are what you feel. what you feel is real. let your thinking get you out of repression and into a feeling place....any feeling place and then feel. stop thinking and just experience what you feel.
Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com
