Try To Make A Thought

[Kath]

For anyone who doesn't get that we don't control our thoughts, try to create one. Try to get into that moment BEFORE a thought comes, and try to make it happen. You'll find (like I did) that it's futile - the thought will be what it will be, you can't make it happen. Thus - we're not controlling them - they just come and go on their own. I found the exercise really liberating - I understood on a rational level that we are not our thoughts, but trying to make one happen really drove it home how we are so not our thoughts. Up to that point I'd been observing them, but not realising quite how independent they were . . . . and how conditioned and automatic too perhaps

 

Just a thought!

[Salaam]

Ha, well it's actually more complicated and way more expansive than your making it out to be. You just don't know it yet, because you haven't developed your awareness and capabilities with the rest of your body's systems and the way they express and inter-relate with each other. So... basically don't jump to conclusions and limiting beliefs, just because you're not capable of something just yet

Over the years, I've developed myself to see behind my thoughts and work with the automated portion of my organizing and narrating system, as well as synergizing it with other parts of me, like my instinct, proprioception, and immune system.

Control is a flawed paradigm. Instead of control, we can connect with our parts and become capable, so that they work with us and take care of us as we take care of them.

You know that constant chitter chatter or whatever people talk about having in their mind? Apparently people have on average like 50,000-70,000 thoughts a day, but for me, my narrating/organizing system or "mind" is much slower and calmer. Like slower, deeper, richer breaths, rather than mental hyperventilation. I can choose what I think, form the words, position the structures behind the mind, that are the capabilities that interconnect my different systems and choose my directions. I can let different sides of myself hook into my narrating mind and "speak" or generate thoughts or I can switch over into other systems inside me, so those get the majority of attention and activation and my narrating mind goes silent.

I was actually stuck for months and months way back in the day, with my narrating mind incapable of forming very many automatic thoughts and that fucking sucked. That's back when I didn't understand how flawed a concept like control was and hadn't yet faced the fears and pressures fueling such a presumption. I'm very thankful to have healed and nurtured a much more healthier autonomic connection between myself and my narrating mind.
 

Edited April 20, 2016 by Salaam

[abrakamowse]

Nice topic! I am trying to calm my mind. But it is still running pretty crazy. I agree with you @Salaam that we have no control of thoughts but I am still looking for a way to make a better connection with the higher mind to recognize and automatize the process.