There’s a load of talk about thought around these parts – and with good reason. Thought is the tool we use to create our individual realities, moment by moment. WHETHER WE REALISE IT OR NOT.
This is not up for discussion. It’s a statement of fact. What you think, or how you think, becomes lit up for you to experience as the outside world so that you can get to enjoy its results. This is your special present, from the Universe to you, just for being born. Whatever you want to experience, you get to. So naturally it pays to make sure you don’t think like an arsehole.
But this is harder said than done because we have two types of thinking available to us. The stuff we do ourselves, and the stuff that, if we let it, will be done for us. Both are thought, both are tools of creative power, so they both will create the experience of the present moment for us to enjoy, but only one type of thinking is peaceful and worth having (hint: the latter). The other is an arsehole.
Unfortunately, as if often the way, the arsehole is a damn sight noisier and more belligerent that the calm, peaceful, gentle thinking. Whereas the serene stuff waits for us to choose it, to go to it, to ask for it, our personal thinking jumps up and down screaming like a pissed off two year old, forcing us to let it rampage through our minds. Which is inconvenient, because it means our present moment is often not as good as it could be. Which is a polite way of saying it’s often negative, crap, angry, chaotic, grisly and full of spite, bitterness and resentment towards the world at large. These grotty present moments build on one another of course until we’re basically lost in a cave and hating our lives
Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to the fucktard that is your EGO. He’s the cause of your woe. You are under the thought-system of ego ANY time you feel something other than total peace and calm. You’re feeling peaceful and calm? No? Then your ego has handed you the tool with which to build your present moment. That’s why you’re feeling like a victim right now and like something or someone “out there” needs to change in order for you to feel better. That’s why ego is often described as victim consciousness. It makes everything shit for you and then forces you to blame somebody else.
Then we have our other thinking. The peaceful stuff. This is not a stream of incessant chatter, it’s totally different. It’s an all-encompassing sense of peace. It’s a gentle space inside us. It’s serene. It’s an awareness that we are thinkers, that we HAVE thoughts. It’s impossible to build a bad present moment when you are choosing to do it with the gentle awareness that you are the one who is creating it. So naturally, out of this block of creative power, comes peace – regardless of what is actually happening in front of your eyes. Whenever you are under the wing of this type of thinking – Universal Thought as it is sometimes called because it’s a resource we all share – you experience peace and only peace with sometimes a spritz of joy thrown in (if the wind’s blowing in the right direction).
Now, because we are human beings, we get to choose which type of thinking we’re going to plump for, moment by moment. The two different types of thinking create two very different types of realities. HAVING THIS CHOICE AVAILABLE IS OUR GIFT, AND EXERCISING THIS CHOICE IS OUR POWER.
Our life looks like one continuous stream of cohesion. It’s not. If you could see behind the scenes of how your life was being presented to you right now, you’d see a cloud of energy out of which the moment was being continually created for you to experience. You’d see that cloud of creative material shifting and altering and changing in each moment as you vacillated between EGO and the other, more peaceful type of thinking. Or between loving thinking and fearful thinking. The present moment isn’t objective, it’s whatever you create it as, based on whichever thinking you happen to be choosing to project and build from, in that moment.
Once you know this it becomes quite easy to ignore egoic thinking, like literally right it off as nonsense, and continually and repetitively sink into the awareness beneath all that rubbish and live from there. And I promise you there is no quicker way to radically change your life than making this practice – of sinking beneath the noise – a habit.
Whatever block of creative power you plump for will create the moment. So the question becomes, are you going to consciously put this power to use, or are you going to let this power? Use you.
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