I am sure I am not the only one who has negative thoughts. Neuroscientists have found we tend to repeat the same thoughts every day throughout our lifetime. Most of our thoughts are 100% replicas of the ones that came before them. Perhaps at some origin, there was an original trigger, an original experience which led to an interpretation, message and thought about that interpretation. We tend to just keep repeating the same old ideas ad infinitum. And they tend not even to be true. Or real.

Our memories are about as fallible as they come. Accident and insurance investigators and judges will confirm that 3 people will often have 3 completely different interpretations of an accident event.

This is both disappointing as well as liberating.

It’s disappointing to know we keep repeating the same thoughts. Yet, it is encouraging to note that the thoughts we have are not real. They are not to be taken seriously, or too seriously. They are not to be believed. We can acknowledge them by all means.

I advocate acknowledging them with kindness.

Let me speak from personal experience about my accident for instance. I could view it as painful, disastrous, the end of the world. Or I could view it as an opportunity, an experience designed for me to learn wisdom, a time out from the world, an opportunity to regroup and design my life with integrity, to change myself from the inside out so I am authentically being the person I am on the inside.

The victim archetype has a mentality that says, “I am the victim of my experiences.” The creator archetype is on an indescribable journey to self-empowerment and fulfilment. The creator says, “It is up to me to heal. I have the power within me to overcome obstacles. I will emerge victorious.”

Simply, I could say, “I am less” or “I am more.” It’s up to me how I interpret my experiences and how I manage my self-talk.

A quick shift in perspective and programming to change oneself from a victim into a victor is, “how might this be happening FOR me.”

We become enlightened not by ignoring or suppressing what is within us. Or by pretending it’s not there.

It’s important we are mindful of our thoughts and have a self-narrator playing that says – “I heard that. I let go of that. It’s not real.”

It’s really important to keep acknowledging, “I am not my thoughts!”

Our thoughts are not who we are as beings of light and vibration and soul. They are just thoughts. Carl Jung wrote:

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”

Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The later procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”

Be with yourself with kindness and sincerity. Allow thoughts to be like passing raindrops in the sky. Let them fall. Let them be. If you are angry, go out and scream, and release all the pent-up rage. If you are sad, cry, let your tears fall to the ground and with them release all your agonies.

Jung had a belief in the deeper consciousness of emotion and sub-conscious being like the ocean, and our thoughts like the surface level. Jung’s teaching is to make that conscious that which we prefer to suppress. Tolle’s teaching is, we are not our thoughts. We don’t need to pretend we are not happy if we don’t feel happy. Keep acknowledging what it is you are experiencing (or think you are experiencing) and then see the thoughts as they are, not real. It helps to work with different layers and dimensions, to go to the surface level as well as the deeper levels. I know that I have an ocean beneath the surface (and a surface beneath the ocean!).

Advancement is knowing we are not our thoughts, yet we live our lives dependent on thinking. It means we are working with an incomplete picture and being okay with that. It also means that whatever comes to the surface is neither to be suppressed, ignored or neglected, or taken at face-value. Acknowledge that which needs acknowledgement. Our thoughts are merely a tool on our toolkit, an aid to help and serve us.

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“Create an inner sanctuary. Keep it pure and sacred like a secret garden. It is going to need lots of pruning. The pilgrimage within will be reflected on the surface of the mind.” – David Star’lyte

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