If you pay attention, you will see that the mind creates most thoughts on its own. They go on all the time....Just as your body is always trying to expel impurities, so your mind is trying to get these mental impurities out. That is what is happening when your mind creates its own thoughts. ...They[samskaras] will continuously try to release pent-up energy, and they will end up determining the thoughts your mind creates on its own. This is the nature of all your automatic thoughts.....
Michael A. Singer, living untethered, page 88-89 ( New Harbinger/Sounds True)
Willful and Automatic Thoughts
We do have a certain amount of power over what type of thinking we do and what type of thoughts we listen to inside our heads. Unfortunately though, most of our thinking results from automatic reflexes of a mind busy attempting to squish down the painful and unwanted impressions we stored so they do not come up. That stored energy, however, is determined to come up. And it comes up in wisps and puffs through automatic thoughts and dreams, trying to make itself known. These thoughts and images all seem so real and important!
We spend so much time listening to and believing these thoughts, making our choices based upon them that we forget that we have another choice. We can willfully think. Instead of getting lost in automatic thinking, we can interject positive, life affirming thoughts into our consciousness. First, we must see and understand the nature of the automatic thinking reflex in our minds; see where it comes from even if we cannot trace each thought to its specific root. We must recognize their harmful nature and understand that we do not have to believe them. They are not reality. We, as the wise observer who witnesses, can interject more positive and wholesome thoughts in there.
They are not to be seen as some important truth or great insight into what is really going on. They are simply your mind attempting to cleanse the patterns you have stored in there.
Michael A. Singer, page 89
Hmm! Now that is something to think about!
All is well!
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