There is neither subtraction nor division in our mind, there is only addition and multiplication. When we say ‘I'll just suppress negative thoughts and I'll have positive thoughts,’ it won't work!!
It's just that you need to pay little attention to the way the mind operates. You will see the difference between what you are and what you have collected.
Well, look at how the question is asked and also how it's normally addressed is, people think there's something called negative thinking and positive thinking. They want to suppress negative thoughts and have nothing but positive thoughts.
For these people, I would ask them to carry out experiments for 10 to 15 seconds. Let them forcefully remove one thought from their mind. For instance, the next ten seconds, don't think about a yellow flower. Try not to think about a yellow flower during the next 10 seconds – you'll see, your thoughts will be filled with yellow flowers.
So what I'm saying is that this is the nature of your mind, because in that mind, all three pedals are accelerators. No brakes, no clutch, no matter what you touch, it will only go faster.
In this kind of mind, people have learned from moral and religious teachers, “Don't think about the bad things.” This has been a full-time job ever since. Therefore, there is no way that you can manage the mind like that, it does not require great enlightenment.
If you spend two minutes with your eyes closed, you will realize that you cannot do anything forcefully with this mind. Thus, when you say to yourself that “I want to eliminate negative thoughts”, you will make them your dominant thoughts.
So, what should I do? The thing is that, without understanding the basic mechanism of this mind, because our mind, the human mind, is the most sophisticated computer on the planet. Even all the super computers came out of that. If that's the case, isn't it important to understand the mechanics of how it works? One simplistic aspect of how it works is – there is neither subtraction nor division in our mind, there is only addition and multiplication. If you try to suppress one negative thought, it'll give you one more, if you try harder, it will multiply negative thoughts. In this mind, you don't try to identify what is positive, what is negative and try to remove it.
First of all, it's important to understand that your mind, your body, is supposed to serve you. This life of yours is important. Body and mind are the vehicles that must serve us. If you sit in a vehicle, it must go where you want to go. But if it goes to its own destination, what is the point of such a vehicle?
Unfortunately, most human beings are experiencing this fantastic possibility of human mind as a troublesome thing. Well, you need to understand that this is the most beautiful thing you have. It's just that you need to pay a little attention as to how it operates.
One simple thing is this - first and foremost, there is something called, “You” which exists. This is not a combination of all your thoughts, emotions and physiological processes. You are beyond that.
When you close your eyes, even if you cannot physically see anything, you still exist, because through the window of your eyes, you are looking out. But closing your eyes does not mean that you don't exist. So, you still exist beyond your thoughts and emotions.
The most significant aspect of who you are right now, is that, you and I are alive right now, this is it. ‘What I'm thinking, what you're thinking’ is not the important thing. We are alive right now, that is the important thing. So, it is important that you focus on this fundamental sense of aliveness within you, and then you will see there is a natural distance between you and your thought process.
Once there is a distance between your psychological process and your physiological process, this is the end of suffering. Because there are only two kinds of suffering that human beings go through – physical suffering and mental suffering. Once you create a little space between you and your mind, between you and your body, this is the end of suffering.
This is something every human being has to experience and know, otherwise, just thinking that ‘I'll suppress negative thoughts and I'll have positive thoughts,’ it won't work, because nobody can remove it, they can only avoid it for some time.
How To Tackle Negative Thoughts
So, when negative thoughts come, you say anything to counter those thoughts, whatever you want, but this is just avoiding, it's not gone. The moment you stop that, it will pop back with great force, otherwise, it will come back in your dreams.So, it's very important. First of all, you need to understand – your anger, your resentment, your fear, your anxieties, the negativity that you generate; generally, it is always directed towards somebody. But we need to understand this is poisons that we are drinking and expecting somebody else to die.
Fortunately, life doesn't work like that. If I drink poison, I die. If I drink poison, you don't die. So, we need to understand this. When I say, “Poison” – today, you can have yourself chemically analyzed.
Right now, ‘what is your blood work?’ What it says, five minutes of intense anger, check your blood work and see, there will be lots of negative elements in it. Literally, you're poisoning yourself. So, do you want to poison yourself? Definitely not. Now the very question is coming from certain helplessness, ‘What shall I do?’ Don't do anything. Just sit back and just concern yourself with something which is the life process, maybe your heartbeat, maybe your breath, maybe just the sensation of being alive.
Depending upon how sensitive or how perceptive you are, accordingly, find something, it could be a sensation in the body, it could be breath, it could be a heartbeat, it could be anything, something which indicates life to you. Just pay attention to that for some time. Slowly, you will see there is a distinction between what is you and what you have gathered, which includes both your physiological and psychological possibility, whatever you’ve made out of it!!!
ALL THE BEST AND GOD BLESS 🙏
Hi this is amazing. I like it so much.keep it up.God bless you
ReplyDelete