Your thoughts

Your thoughts

Your thoughts are important, and you should be watchful of your thoughts, because your thoughts are ideas or opinions that are produced by thinking.  Suddenly your mind will form a thought.  The type of thoughts that are formed suddenly in your mind can propel you to take action that will move you in a particular direction, or your thoughts could possibly cause you to freeze and become unproductive.

Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words.  Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions.  Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits.  Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character.  Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny. — Chinese proverb, author unknown

As we jump into our next Blog Session, please take a moment to grab your Journal or your Composition Notebook and get ready to write notes on the parts of this discussion that capture your attention.

Journaling your Thoughts

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Taking Notes

As you filter your thoughts, you will learn to actively take control of what you are thinking.  In time you will learn to pay attention to both your negative as well as positive thoughts.  Your emotions influence what you are thinking.  As you learn to still yourself, you will find that you can better control your emotions, which in turn helps you to take control of your thoughts.

When you find yourself flooded with a negative emotion(s), the following practices can help you find your way back to your core of balance, peace, and well-being...

• Resist the impulse to ignore your feelings, push them away, or judge them as bad.  Instead ask your thoughts what they are trying to tell you.  Analyze your thoughts.  All emotions, including the most difficult ones, exist for a reason -- and that reason is to help you.   Your thoughts will help you to tune into the message your body wants you to hear.

• Be objective.  If you identify personally with negativity and think, I am angry, depressed, miserable, stressed out, disgusted, etc., it will be extremely difficult to detach and let go.  Learn to see all emotions as only energy, like electricity that flows through you but isn’t about you.

• Practice self-compassion.  If you feel overwhelmed, tell yourself, “Whatever fear says, nothing can destroy me.  I’m having a strong reaction right now, but it isn’t the real me. This too shall pass."

• Take responsibility.  If you find yourself reacting to certain situations in the same way, ask yourself what you need to learn in order to change your automatic response. Automatic responses can be detrimental to your well-being if those auto responses cause you to repeat destructive behavior patterns. 

• Meditate.  Meditation is one of the best ways to loosen the grip of sticky emotions and connect to our true self.  In meditation we disrupt the unconscious progression of thoughts and emotions by focusing on a new object of attention.  For example, if you choose to use Prayerful Meditation, your object of attention becomes a prayer that is meditated upon for your well-being, and the well-being of your loved ones. 

Another way to meditate is to use mantras.  A mantra is pure sound, with no meaning or emotional charge to trigger associations.  It allows the mind to detach from its usual preoccupations and experience the spaciousness and calm within.  In the silence of awareness, the mind lets go of old patterns of thinking and feeling and learns to heal itself.

It is at this time that you should just write out the thoughts that you have been dwelling on and assess whether they have been positive or negative.  Evaluate the quality of your thoughts.  Are your thoughts uplifting, or do they bring you down spiritually?  Take a moment to still yourself...

Prayerfully consider your thoughts.

Friends use this evening to meditate

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Journal your thoughts.

We'll see each other back here in our next Blog Session!

Peace, Love & Light,

 René

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