How To Release Negative Thoughts & Quiet The Mind Through Present Moment Awareness
YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS
If you are struggling with your thoughts it means that your thoughts are possessing you. It's possessing your identity. You think you are your thoughts and emotions but you are not. You are the empty space that contains the thoughts and emotions. You are like the clear sky that contains the clouds.
You are consciousness. You are the observer of your thoughts. You can access your true nature and become this space of consciousness that contains your thoughts rather than being possessed by them.
You do this by observing your thoughts. When thoughts come up just simply observe them instead of being possessed by them. If you are aware that you are having a thought and emotion, it can no longer possess you. You sever the link of identification. You are no longer possessed because you are aware that you are having these thoughts. This happens the moment you realize that you are not the thoughts that you are thinking in this moment.
Try it now
Observe within right now. Observe everything that is happening within. All the thoughts and emotions. Just let them be. Don't try to change them, analyze them, judge them, or push them away. The moment you try to judge and resist these thoughts and emotions, your mind is creeping through the backdoor repossessing you.
So just sit and observe. Become the silent witness of everything that's going on within. You will notice that because you are detached and observing and not possessed, these thoughts will flow by your consciousness and disappear instead of staying and possessing you.
It's really simple to do. Do not overthink this. Simply gaining awareness of your thoughts and that you are not your thoughts is a huge shift. It is THE shift.
If you are really ready for inner freedom then you want to commit to this. Do this all day (or as much as possible). Starting first thing in the morning. You will become the space, the consciousness that contains your thoughts more permanently instead of being identified as the body/mind/personality.
THE ENERGETIC MIND
Your thoughts and emotions cannot survive without you feeding it. You feed your negative thoughts and emotions when you are identified with them. When you cut identification with them they will lose energy and fade away because you are no longer energizing them.
In the beginning you will have a lot of negative thought momentum so it may seem hard but with effective and focused practice, you will de-energize the mind. And it will get easier and easier because every day your negative thoughts are less energized and affect you way less.
FUNCTIONALITY AND SURRENDER
One of the biggest obstacles to fully committing to presence is being afraid to let go. Being afraid to let go of the control that you think you have and just trusting the universe. Being afraid to let go of your obsessive analyzing of your life. You think that if you give up thinking, your life is going to fall apart, but the absolute opposite is true. When you start quieting your mind and stop worrying or analyzing about everything, you will start absolutely thriving.
You don't need to think at all. You don't need to analyze anything at all. Give up analyzing completely. You don't need to figure anything out because the universe is always putting things in place for you.
When you quiet your mind and stop analyzing you will manifest the most amazing life effortlessly. The natural flow of the universe is absolute abundance and you don't need to do anything except get out of the way and that starts with quieting the mind.
When you are practicing quieting your mind but then something comes up and you feel like you need to analyze this problem to get past it, you are just energizing the mind when you can just quiet the mind and allow everything to fall in place smoothly. Analyzing is one of the ways that you allow your mind to creep in the back door. I know it feels scary but you're only gonna be thriving when you fully let go.
Quieting your mind and surrendering goes hand in hand. Once you fully experience the power of letting go and everything absolutely working out you will know.
When you are quieting your mind you are channeling source. It's that easy. The moment you quiet your mind, source floods in. It's the norm for me to channel source just about 24/7.
You're going to channel infinite intelligence 24/7. When you bring presence into everything that you do instead of thinking, you're gonna channel this divine instinct, you're gonna move so perfectly. You're going to start excelling at everything that you do. You're in flow state 24/7 and it's gonna be the norm. You can apply this to anything and everything. Sports, talking to people, academic tests, work, desk jobs, etc.
You never need to analyze or calculate.
PRESENCE TECHNIQUES
Before you practice these techniques you want to understand the natural mechanisms of presence. When you become present you naturally become the observer of your thoughts so they go hand in hand.
Below are the techniques that you want to practice all day:
1. FOCUS ON 1 THING AT A TIME FULLY
As you go through your day, pick 1 thing at a time and fully put 1000% of your attention on that thing and only that. So if you're washing the dishes, you are putting all of your attention into scrubbing those dishes instead of thinking about all these negative things in your head.
When you are brushing your teeth you are fully focused on brushing your teeth. When you are walking, focus on 1 step at a time. When you are sitting down and doing nothing, listen to some noise in the distance or listen to the complete silence with all of your attention. You will lose focus just come back to it with 1000% focus. Just pick 1 point and fully focus on it.
2. INNER BODY TECHNIQUE
Put all of your attention into the empty space inside of your body. This is very easy to do. Just inhabit your body with all of your attention. It's the same thing as the technique above but you're putting all the attention in your inner body. I love this technique because it allows you to be fully functional. You can put your attention in your inner body and do any task. Like when you are talking to someone, put all of your attention in your inner body and you're gonna become super present and you will say the most amazing things without even thinking about it. You are just channeling in every conversation. Your social life is about to thrive.
You can apply this inner body technique to anything you need to do even competitive sports. When you feel the need to think, you should go deeper into presence, deeper into your inner body, deeper into the quiet mind.
3. FULLY BECOME PRESENT
This one is simple to understand. Just become totally present in the moment. Like this is the most important moment of your life. Just become totally alert and aware. Just be here now fully.
4. OBSERVER
We already talked about this technique so I'm not gonna repeat it but I wanna mention that you can use this technique as well but I find the other techniques to allow me to be more functional and also I can go deeper into the moment.
You will lose focus many times throughout the day. Just keep coming back to these techniques.
TRIGGERS
Now that you know the techniques I want to mention that you wanna do these first thing in the morning, before the negative momentum of your mind really kicks off. You wanna be present before you get triggered. You want to maintain that peaceful space.
Most people make the mistake of getting triggered first and then trying to be present after they are triggered. That's like trying to stop a rolling car down the hill.
You want to become present before you get triggered or the momentum of your mind kicks in. Every time you don't get triggered, you de-energize your mind and emotional triggers and eventually the trigger will deactivate.
COMMITMENT
Are you really ready to master your thoughts? Literally anybody can do this with effective practice and commitment but you have to commit to this. It starts with making this the dominant focus of your life. You want to be present the first thing in the morning and as much as possible throughout the day. This can't be a little technique that you do twice a day. This is the dominant focus of every day. The thing is if you make this the dominant focus, everything in your life is going to fall in place as well.
I know what it's like to absolutely struggle with my thoughts. I've been through it. But with effective practice, inner peace will become the ABSOLUTE BASELINE of your life. From here you can achieve even higher vibrations and alignment with source.
I hope you enjoyed this article and I hope you practice this a lot.
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