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October 2009 
Dealing with Negative Thoughts
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Do we really need to control and avoid our negative thoughts, out of fear they will manifest? If we believe our thoughts create our reality, then we get into becoming "thought police" on our minds. This is not comfortable. In fact I believe it's counterproductive. I have a heretical view of "Our thoughts create our reality."
I've been wanting to blog about this for a long time, and just wrote a post I shall use for this blog. It'll be a quick pass through the subject. I could have more to say in the comments.
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We are advised to choose our thoughts, to be sure they are what we want to manifest. We are sometimes advised not to put energy into thinking about our fears, or they will manifest.
Some of my spiritual teachers pointed out that this kind of belief puts us in an impossible bind: We truly cannot control what comes into our minds. If we become "thought police" and try to control or even worse, RESIST some of our thoughts, we are not loving and accepting ourselves unconditionally, and also we end up manifesting what we DON'T want!!
These teachers pointed out that it is NOT our thoughts that manifest. It is the thoughts we believe in, and treat as REALITY, which manifest. The thoughts we give energy and attention to -- and resistance is energy and attention !!!! Treating a fear as valid or creatively powerful is energy and attention.
So in the "advice" above I say we cannot "choose our thoughts" but the second sentence offers a glimpse of the way out of manifesting our fears: do not give them energy, attention, reality, belief. They are "JUST THOUGHTS."
Thus we just witness them, accept that they are "what is" at this particular moment in the flow of what is, not resist them or condemn them or fear their consequences. Not regard them as "about reality" in any way.
This Unconditional Love extended to our thoughts sets up what might be called a filter or protective barrier that actually prevents negative thoughts from manifesting (and the negative emotions that have at root negative thoughts.)
Of course, meanwhile, we can also work on transmuting into wisdom, the illusions that create the negative thoughts. Work via direct energy healing of the energy patterns, work via various psychological or psycho-spiritual methods. Ask our highest Teachers, Healers, and Guides for help in fulfilling the purpose and harvesting the highest wisdom from these illusions, and the illusions leave because their purpose has been fulfilled.
I have been experiencing this a lot lately, as ancient fears are resurfacing, triggered by current events, and I realize the whole experience now is not about the practicalities at all, but my Spirit or Higher Self or whatever you want to call it, has simply decided it's time to fulfill the purpose of those illusions and their negative thoughts and emotions, and thus they are in fact being healed, without a whole lot of conscious ego effort on my part. Except the desire to cooperate with the healing !!
Utlimately of course, we cannot choose just one side of a polarity of negative and positive. We just evolve to dwell in a place that accepts both, does not resist either, but has an infinite eternal perspective on it all. Sometimes that's called Enlightenment or God-realization.
Anyway, pulling the "reality" out of our negative thoughts to pull out their creative power, is a "trick" one can use.....
Here's an even more powerful trick that gets us out of the polarity and also out of fear not only of our negative thoughts but also fear of our desires, which is the other trap we can fall into, resisting our desires as just "ego." [I'll blog about that sometime.]
This trick is, focus all your attention on the "truth," accept as true, that everything which manifests in your experience is what is chosen by your Higher Self, or Spirit, or you might even say God, or whatever your word for that is. This is, in my view, what has always been the truth all along, and your ego and mind and fears are also choices and chosen experiences from that higher level of your Being. But shifting your identity -- the creator and chooser of your human experiences -- to be above, larger, vaster, than your human self, is part of spiritual evolution, and can really help you relax about both your fears and your desires !!
Hope some of this is understandable and helpful to you !
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