All thoughts come to us from without and therefore we must treat thoughts as guests
and not allow them to become hosts. The appropriate method of dealing with thoughts
is to observe them and let them pass!
Since my perception is best through visualization, I am given ample proof as to
why thoughts should not be allowed to build a permanent residence within us but
allowed in only as visitors! I have seen that every thought, which was fed into
my mind immediately, assumed a form. It stayed with me till I looked at it and acknowledged
it before it moved out in the same form from my consciousness! You can do a little
exercise for yourself:
Think of any person, place or thing and then look into your mind! Do you see how
your mind has created a form almost instantly! So, if these thoughts are not allowed
to move out, what is going to be happening is exactly what happens to a one-room
apartment with 20 people occupying it! There is going to be a spill over into the
doorway, into the passageway and down to the stairway and into the compound. If
you cling to your thoughts and do not release them, there is going to be clogging
of the outlets etc. and rot will start setting in as the plethoric thoughts jam
your system!
Imagine hundreds of thought forms going yak, yak, yak in your brain: you are bound
to have a heavy head or a migraine! If this form of energy starts putrefying, depending
on the chakra it is related to, it is bound to cause an ulcer, tumor or just plain
congestion! If not rationalized or worked out and released, this energy becomes
a part of your consciousness as your chronic dis-ease, specially if it is a fatalistic
or pessimistic thought!
If we do not live consciously, then we are allowing all and sundry thoughts to filter
into the subconscious, which works mainly to produce an output! I view the subconscious
as a restricted operator in the sense that it has no discriminative power. It does
not know the difference between good or bad, right and wrong. Its job is to produce
results. How important is it then for the conscious mind to stand as a sentinel
and be always aware and alert to check everything that passes into the subconscious?
This is what is going to create your future!
Imagine the subconscious to be like a big earthen pot and in the course of your
life, you put some wheat into it, then some rice, then some rubble, then some gold
and silver and again some dirt so on and so on. Now, this pot has a hole at the
bottom. What is the order in which you receive what you have placed inside, and
in what form?
As I said that the subconscious cannot discriminate: it only performs its duty of
producing results! If during the course of my conversation with a friend, I tell
her, "You make me sick or you are a pain in the neck," these thought forms filter
into the subconscious and produce their results in course of time! That is certain!
If, however, I am conscious of the power of thoughts, I would immediately replace
my statement with, " I do not agree with your style of working "or "This statement
of yours is presenting a challenge to me" or something to that effect.
Finally to de-condition our conditioned behavior patterns we need to create a set
of affirmations or positive statements for ourselves like:
"I am whole, I am strong, I am perfect." - Mental physics
"In the here and now I am experiencing Sourceful abundance." - Master Charles
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and keep affirming them during the course of the day so that they become a part
of our system and create their positive vibrations for us! With constant practice
we become watchful of what we say and with awareness we re-program our data bank
and create a new us!
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