How many hours a day do you spend in negative thinking? How much of your thinking involves resentments, worries, regrets, guilt, shame, anger, fears, etc.? How do you expect to feel if a lot of you thinking is negative? Pretty lousy. Thoughts automatically translate into emotions.
We live in the emotional experience of our thinking.
If we spend hours a day in negative thoughts and emotions, it is no wonder we want to escape our experience and find relief in all kinds of things.
I would like to share with you some wisdom that may help you gain some freedom from "stinking thinking".
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Dealing with "stinking thinking" and moods #2
If we truly realized and internalized that our emotions are 100% coming from our thinking, that there is 100% correlation between our thinking and our feelings, there would be many positive implications and ramifications.
One major ramification is that we would "take off the hook" many of the external factors we blame for the way we feel. The deeper we would get it, the more fully we would let go of blaming external factors for the way we feel.
Do you see that?
There is only one culprit for the way we feel - our thinking.
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Dealing with "stinking thinking" and moods #3
If we truly realized and internalized that our emotions are 100% coming from our thinking, that there is 100% correlation between our thinking and our feelings, there would be many positive implications and ramifications. One other major ramification is that we would realize it's not necessary to change the world for us to feel better. We often try so hard to force our environment and the people around us to change in a desperate hope to feel better. It usually doesn't work. Not only it doesn't work, it makes things worst. Looking for the reasons why we feel negatively in our lives and our environment gives the negative feelings deeper roots, more negative thoughts, more negative feelings - it's a negative spiral. Realizing the reason we feel negatively is because our thinking has gone stinking, makes it much more likely that the thinking and the feelings will fly with the wind quicker.
Dealing with "stinking thinking" and moods #4
If we truly realized and internalized that our emotions are 100% coming from our thinking, that there is 100% correlation between our thinking and our feelings, there would be many positive implications and ramifications.
One other major ramification is that we would be less moved and less reactive to events in our world that are not to our liking.
We often react in different ways to the same external events in or lives - depending on our state of mind at the time and our quality of thinking.
Can you think of situations in your life that recur and you react differently at different times?
Look for simple things like getting cut-off by a car on the highway. Did it happen to you once and you got irritated, and exactly the same thing happened a different day and you were not bothered at all? Or when your child doesn't listen to you, do you always react the same way?
Where are your feelings coming from? From external events and circumstances, or from your thinking?
We should be more suspicious of ourselves when we get caught up and blame external circumstances and people for the way we feel. This suspicion can actually be a very freeing and lightening experience.