Thoughts

Throughout the day your conscious and unconscious minds take in all forms of information and sensory perception. Your minds not only process all of this information but also reacts to this stimuli, whether it is right, wrong, sometimes inappropriate or at other times seemingly indifferent.

The simple mantra of IOEA (Inhale, Observe your breath, Exhale, Awareness of your thoughts) applied as you breathe can help you moderate your reactions and allow you to choose how you will respond in life. As you Inhale, simply take the moment to Observe your breath. Do not try to overcomplicate things, as this simple act of Inhaling and Observing will allow you to pause any seemingly unconscious reaction. Then as you Exhale, take the moment to apply some Awareness to your thoughts and thinking. You may find for more difficult situations that you will need to repeat the cycle of IOEA a few times so that your unconscious thoughts or reactions do not see the light of day. Instead, with awareness, you may choose to respond differently rather than reacting.

When your life seems to be rushing by and everything around you seems to be happing too fast or out of your control, make the effort to stop for a moment. At that instant in time, with the world on pause, ask yourself, is it the world that is busy and hectic, or is it my mind? You might actually discover that the fact is, that your mind is overfilling your life with innumerable and quite often unwanted and frequently groundless thoughts or other contrivances. With some of these thoughts paused, you now have the opportunity to reestablish control of your mind to make your life truly less hectic.

Extremely few people are aware of, or comprehend, just how much we come to be totally connected with our intense thoughts and psychological responses in our lives. Being so engaged, we rarely consider that it is our mind, which generates a huge portion of the unhappiness, worry, anxiety, sorrow and even aspects of depression and ill health in our lives.

Every day and every instant in time, you can choose exactly how to react or respond to anything in your life. Via the astute application of active intelligence, you can opt to remain in control, rather than falling right into habits or sets of pre-programmed thought archetypes, which have been bolstered by the psychological reactions of your passive intellect and everyday excuses. Seize the moment to briefly stop and deliberate regarding just how your own thoughts and psychological reaction and responses are impacting your everyday thinking; after which you can choose to make an informed response through the application of your active intelligence.

As individuals, each of us differs from one another in our ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to our environment, to learn from experience and to engage in various forms of reasoning through the application of active intelligence. These differences are never entirely consistent, as your intellectual capabilities will vary on different occasions and in different aspects of your life.

Life Force Cognition can play an important role in helping you to change your state of mind and your state of being. Within an unemotional and less fluctuating state of mind, the energies of your Life Force can rejuvenate, regenerate and revitalise all parts of you. Learning to enter into a state of Life Force Cognition, will help you to bring mastery to your states of mind and to “switch off” from the world whenever you need to.

To fully realise the complexities of the mind, you must change your preconceptions about it. The mind is composed of many different energy levels and sub-levels through which your persona is manifest as one complete unit. The level of mind you use and communicate through, is equal to the thought patterns you allow to manifest within your mind at any given time. Realise that your mind fluctuates and uses many sub mental levels and mental levels throughout any given day.

It can seem uncomfortably awkward or even alien when you start meditation, especially if you lead a busy life, or there are lots of things which typically occur around you. This can be a completely natural sensation as your mind is used to the normal hustle and bustle of everyday life. The change of pace when meditating can trigger feelings of anxiety or nervousness, as if something is missing or even a sense of FOMO (fear of missing out).

 

If you do feel uneasy when practising meditation, then be aware it is your own mind which is generating these sensations, as it strives to maintain its control over your life and your way of thinking. Several techniques which can aid you to become more comfortable while meditating include: basic breathing techniques, such as Breathe with Purpose, to elements of mindfulness. When you first start to practise meditation, another effective way to help you feel less anxious, is to simply lower your gaze to a spot on the floor or ground before you, rather than closing your eyes.

Many successful people can vouch for the power of visualisation, the ability to use their brains to create an image of what they want to achieve. It may take practice and patience, but believing something will happen can be a huge step towards making it happen. Knowing how powerful your mind is, every person has the ability to essentially create their own placebo effect.

When every little thing around you appears to be rushing by at a frantic pace, stop for a moment. At that point pose the question, is it the world that is hectic, or is it my mind? You may well discover that the truth is, that your mind is cramming your day with countless and frequently unwanted and often unwarranted thoughts.

The human brain is comprised of roughly one hundred billion neurones, which are thereupon interconnected by trillions of connections, called synapses. Each of these associations may be relaying between one and a thousand transmissions per second, to fabricate the process which we equate to as thoughts or ideas in the physical brain.

To fully comprehend your thinking, it is necessary to appreciate that the human brain is just part of a complex system which entails the entire cognitive form.  Your thoughts become manifest, not merely as electrochemical connections of the brain, but also as electromagnetic impulses. Some cognitive scientists have started to acknowledge that thoughts are not confined to the brain, but concurrently occur in the body as well as the brain. It is this electromagnetic nature of thoughts and ideas, which enable them to spread through the brain, the body and the environment around us.

We as human beings are the product of our own thoughts. Our thoughts create the basis of our emotions, feelings and actions or responses. For every single thought or action, there is a reaction or consequence. This is quite comparable to the observations made by Newton when he detailed his third law of motion; to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When you think, your thoughts are formed of energy, and these energies can attract similar energies which can magnify your preliminary thought. Your thoughts influence not only your life, but the world around you and in effect, you become what you think.

Frequently people struggle with mindfulness or meditation by aspiring to eliminate all the thoughts from their mind. Realise that making this effort to clear your head is likewise a thought. Discovering the silence in between your thoughts can be a really powerful technique to assist you to calm your mind and attain aspects of meditation.

As an alternative to focusing on the thoughts which you are attempting to clear from your mind, focus on the silence in between each thought. All the while, as you keep on focusing on the silence in between the thoughts, observe the silence expanding. Continue to focus on this silence in between your thoughts to ensure that it thrusts an increasing number of your thoughts to the edges of your mind. Gradually this silence will expand to grant you some calmness of mind, from where you can move ahead with your other mindfulness or meditation activities,

Have you at any time discerned that when both adverse and positive things take place, we are far more likely to take notice of, or recollect the negatives? Nevertheless, you are in charge of your thoughts and can take on the mettle to establish a positive way of thinking.

Elevate your state of mind by making a purposeful undertaking to seek out the positive situations in life. If you require some assistance to focus on the positives, make an effort to remember or count acts of kindness, happiness, or enjoying the incredible moments in your life.

Your thoughts and responses in life can cause an accumulation of emotional energies within you. These energies, if left unchecked can have a harmful influence upon your body and your entire state of wellbeing. Take back control of your life through modifying your thinking, reactions and responses in life to improve your health and wellbeing.

If made use of intelligently and listened to objectively, the mind is an exceptional instrument. However, if employed wrongly it can end up being unruly and destructive as it takes control of your life and dictates your emotions. Paying attention to your mind objectively pertains to your capacity to hear your own thoughts without being unduly affected by the actuality that you are the one who originated them. It is not an easy thing to do, as you listen to your thoughts with objectivity. Meaning that you must cultivate the courage to fairly assess them as they arise and make a choice to accept, modify or reject them.

When you are feeling down or unhappy, acknowledge that you are not the voice of your mind, however, you are the one that hears it.