A friend approached me the other day and expressed anxiety about the difficulties of becoming free of the constant stream of negative thoughts in the mind.
We all know that there are a constant ongoing thought process where negative thoughts get repeated over and over again. It’s mainly the same sad unproductive thoughts telling you that whatever you are is of no value, or that you won’t succeed in anything that you want to do.
The mind can be very cruel in this way. Sometimes it might even seem as if the mind is your own enemy, constantly trying to keep you on the ground, preventing you from standing up.
There is no doubt that an uncontrolled mind can hurt you. Or as the Buddha said in the Dhammapada:
Your worst enemy cannot harm you
As much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
The mind is Change. Everything that the mind is, is what is around it. If the world around the mind changes, then naturally the mind changes also. No wonder that we feel that the mind seems to work against us rather then with us. If the mind is so easily influenced by whatever it focuses on, then naturally there are many pains and worries that you will face if you identify with your mind. Continue reading ‘Working with the negative mind’
How do they come up with these things? Science is a funny thing.
“According to Charlie Greer “the National Science Foundation put out
some very interesting statistics (…) the average person thinks about
twelve thousand thoughts per day. A deeper thinker (…) puts forth
fifty thousand thoughts daily.” [source]
Have you ever counted your own thoughts, started to put labels on them? That’s one about cars, and there’s another about mortgage plans, oh that’s the one about fears again.. That last one just doesn’t seem to go away.
You’ve never counted them? Well, neither have I. But I have realized time and time again that most thoughts are just reruns and repetitions of old thoughts. The most frequent thoughts that come up are mostly the same every day.
It can be a tricky thing to change old thought patterns. Continue reading ‘The mind is a flickery thing’
Shamans have always known that the whole earth is alive. But not just with it’s little plants and animals but this includes rocks, hills, rivers and the very air you breathe!
It’s all one whole organism that everything, including us humans, are naturally included to. From a biologists viewpoint it could be thought of as if you looked at a drop of water through a microscope. Then you could easily point out the little microorganisms and various stuff floating around in there. But it only appears separated when looked at from a close perspective, for instance through a microscope. If you stood back you would just experience a drop of water wouldn’t you? Continue reading ‘The living earth’
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