Are You Your Thoughts?
Are you your thoughts? You are not your thoughts.
Are you your thoughts?
In short, no.
Quite often, when I am working with clients, I suggest they name the voices in their head. The narrators. You know those voices, the criticizer, the congratulator, the righteous one, the scared one, the bitchy one, and so on. The reason I ask for people to do this is so that they can understand that they are not those voices but the One who hears or experiences them. We are also the one who chooses to hear them. The One that gets to choose whether to believe in them or not.
All thoughts are pure energy. Every thought you ever have is creative. They are electrical charges within the quantum field or Universe. And, although they have a beginning, a middle, and an end, they never die. Thoughts are eternal. Whether they are born of love, joy, reverence, inspiration, or they are born of fear and all that comes from fear, they are like energy attracting like energy. When we commit to our thoughts they are proceeded by an emotion. This creates the loop of another thought that aligns, thus, we strengthen the emotion, love or fear, that instigated the thought. Each emotion being a magnetic charge thus draws a corresponding experience back to you.
This is how we create our personal reality in every moment. This is why there are no mistakes.
This is also why I constantly point out that nothing is happening to us - we are not victims. Nothing is really happening to us - we are not being damned. But, everything is happening THROUGH us!
Have you ever wondered - where did this thought come from?
Most of our thoughts are not even ours! They are the preprogramming of the subconscious mind which began as you manifested into this world. They come from our parents, peers, society, etc. They also come from the media we consume whether it is books, shows, social media, etc. Most of your thoughts are not even yours. This is what happens when we let the mind go unchecked, when we think unintentionally.
So, I have found that by naming the voices or narrators in our heads we can dissociate from them instead of buying into the story. Each of these voices is a different identity, so by naming them we begin to pick and choose which ones we will hold council with. Thus, we choose which reality we will experience.
Mindfulness practice is all about knowing yourself, or the voices, so that we can experience this reality through free will. First, we notice, then we experience, and finally, we become. This is the biology of belief. We pick our perception of our environment. Then, we feed and strengthen it through thoughts and feelings. This is free will. There is always a choice.
What are the thoughts you are choosing to experience?
Today is the perfect day to empower yourself and live intentionally!
brightest of blessings,
Dawn xo
Dawn Elgin | Conscious Empowerment / Spiritual Coach & Awakening Light