Thoughts

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.

When two things take place successively we call them cause and effect, if we think one event made the other one take place. We call it a reaction if we believe one event is the response to the other. If we perceive that two incidents are unrelated, we call it a mere coincidence. If we believe somebody deserved what took place, we call it retaliation or reward, depending upon whether the event was adverse or favourable for the recipient. If we cannot discover a factor for both events happening in close proximity, we call it an accident. Ponder for a moment, that everything is connected so that events produce ripples of effect.

Few of us comprehend, how deeply we have become involved with our thoughts and emotional reactions. Being so involved, we never have the opportunity to consider that it is our mind, which governs much of our life through seemingly unconscious reactions. You have the choice of sliding into pre-programmed patterns of thinking, excuses and the emotional reactions or changing your reactions. You can pause, stay in control, and reflect on how thoughts or emotions may be affecting you. Then act with active intelligence to achieve the best outcome.

When focused with intention, your thoughts are the most commanding. When your thoughts do not have focus, it is like light travelling through a prism contrasted to being concentrated by a magnifying glass. While light can transit through either the magnifying glass or the prism, what occurs afterwards to the light is really different. The aforementioned analogy holds true for your thoughts. Discover how to focus your thoughts, instead of letting them be scattered. The techniques which are incorporated in mindfulness, as well as meditation, can assist you to focus your thoughts; with higher levels of focused thoughts (Ekagrata) being possible through the refined process of Life Force Cognition.

A number of us have embarked upon a mindfulness journey with the aspiration to alleviate stress and anxiety or attain some calmness in our lives. Using mindfulness, to afford awareness to the here and now offers you the chance to be watchful of your own thoughts, emotions & feelings, in addition to perspectives of the world around you.