Leave Troubling Thoughts and Feelings Where You Find Them
Imagine for a moment what your life might be like if you never again were to pick up a complaining thought or feeling. Think of how your days would flow without carrying the additional weight of those inner voices always telling you, "I'm too tired," or "This is too much for me!" The weight of the world would be replaced by a new sense of freedom. Fresh, new energies would flow.
If this is the kind of inwardly carefree life you really want, then look closely into these next two ideas that together tell one story of freedom: leaving troubled thoughts right where you find them is the same as not picking up what troubles you. And if you can leave just one of these weary thoughts behind you, then you can leave two, and three, and four, and fifty!
There's a way to know, without ever having to think about it, exactly which of your own thoughts and feelings are your friends, and which are foes: a totally thought-free way to understand which of your thoughts are practical and necessary for everyday life, and which are stealing your life with unsuspected self-compromise. It's true. You possess unsuspected powers of perception just waiting to be awakened. The following technique will help you get started.
Allow your eyes to fall on something familiar in the space where you are. Notice how your mind immediately gives that object a name. Having done this part of the exercise, keep your attention on whatever you've selected, and then continue to watch how more thoughts come into your mind about what you're seeing.
Now, while you're witnessing both that object and your growing stream of associative thoughts and feelings about it, just drop these thoughts and feelings.
You can still see the object, and you still know what it is -- but now you are knowing without thinking.
In this form of higher attention, you can see that the meaning of the object before you has not changed. The difference is that now its meaning speaks directly, silently to you – instead of you listening to your thoughts telling you about its meaning.
When it comes to seeing a chair or a pencil, this new kind of thought-free state may not seem too profound.
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Although some of this seems somewhat esoteric, what I believe you are saying is to acknowledge the meaning of events to ones self and they don't become part of your own energy. It doesn't attach.
That sounds like very helpful information.
July 4, 2009 - 4:48pmThis Comment