Where is the source of your latest thought?
Sometimes I find I am scattered and my thoughts come from everywhere. Often I follow one then get sidetracked by the next stimulus and go off on a tangent. The trouble with that is I can quickly forget where I was going in the first place!
It seems that hitting the ‘pause button of my mind’ is the skill that I need to exercise the most. I stop, breathe, then breathe again, and clarity returns.
I am aware that many thoughts seem to pop into my head from somewhere outside. Sometimes it’s even my mother, a wonderful woman who has been on The Other Side for over 10 years! But that voice can help me see what I am looking at through new eyes. Sometimes it is an old tape that is playing in my head and I have to catch myself as an observer to notice that that tape no longer has relevance in my life. It seems to be so easy to cling to the old ways of thinking because they are automatic, a knee-jerk response to a stimulus.
But once you have decided to live a Conscious Life you must catch yourself in EVERY knee-jerk response. The question to ask is, ‘What is the source of this thought?’ If the answer is that you have considered many options and at this time you have chosen consciously to believe something, then stay with that thought and follow it. If, however, you answer that the thought came from your childhood or your friend at work or from a discussion with a neighbor then reassess its value in your current life. Why would you spend time and brainpower following a thought that comes from a past prejudice that was instilled in you by someone who hadn’t had the opportunity to examine and discard that prejudice? Why would you adopt a contracting thought, one that makes you feel smaller rather than expanded, just because someone at work planted that thought or reaction in your mind?
Living a Conscious Life asks you to bring forward your thoughts into the Light and to examine them. There is a quality to thoughts called their ‘Light Content.’ Thoughts that have a high Light Content feel expansive, take you outside of your small ‘s’ self and into the realm of the capital ‘S’ Self. When you spend time with high Light Content thoughts you will feel yourself touching the world of creativity, of acceptance, of connection.
On the other hand, thoughts of little Light Content feel darker, heavier, more contracting and very personal, without room for others to fit into the thoughts. Sometimes these thoughts are old thought forms that no longer serve in the 21st Century but are still being held by those who choose not to grow. These will not serve you in your path of personal and spiritual growth. Learn to recognize them when they cross your path and choose to move forward, discarding their heavy energy.
Choose to think thoughts that are filled with Light. Choose to hold onto beliefs that serve your growth into expanded Light. You are always at the point of choice. Choose growth. And enjoy the Light!
Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Choose to Think Thoughts Filled with Light
April 7, 2010 — RosemaryWhere is the source of your latest thought?
Sometimes I find I am scattered and my thoughts come from everywhere. Often I follow one then get sidetracked by the next stimulus and go off on a tangent. The trouble with that is I can quickly forget where I was going in the first place!
It seems that hitting the ‘pause button of my mind’ is the skill that I need to exercise the most. I stop, breathe, then breathe again, and clarity returns.
I am aware that many thoughts seem to pop into my head from somewhere outside. Sometimes it’s even my mother, a wonderful woman who has been on The Other Side for over 10 years! But that voice can help me see what I am looking at through new eyes. Sometimes it is an old tape that is playing in my head and I have to catch myself as an observer to notice that that tape no longer has relevance in my life. It seems to be so easy to cling to the old ways of thinking because they are automatic, a knee-jerk response to a stimulus.
But once you have decided to live a Conscious Life you must catch yourself in EVERY knee-jerk response. The question to ask is, ‘What is the source of this thought?’ If the answer is that you have considered many options and at this time you have chosen consciously to believe something, then stay with that thought and follow it. If, however, you answer that the thought came from your childhood or your friend at work or from a discussion with a neighbor then reassess its value in your current life. Why would you spend time and brainpower following a thought that comes from a past prejudice that was instilled in you by someone who hadn’t had the opportunity to examine and discard that prejudice? Why would you adopt a contracting thought, one that makes you feel smaller rather than expanded, just because someone at work planted that thought or reaction in your mind?
Living a Conscious Life asks you to bring forward your thoughts into the Light and to examine them. There is a quality to thoughts called their ‘Light Content.’ Thoughts that have a high Light Content feel expansive, take you outside of your small ‘s’ self and into the realm of the capital ‘S’ Self. When you spend time with high Light Content thoughts you will feel yourself touching the world of creativity, of acceptance, of connection.
On the other hand, thoughts of little Light Content feel darker, heavier, more contracting and very personal, without room for others to fit into the thoughts. Sometimes these thoughts are old thought forms that no longer serve in the 21st Century but are still being held by those who choose not to grow. These will not serve you in your path of personal and spiritual growth. Learn to recognize them when they cross your path and choose to move forward, discarding their heavy energy.
Choose to think thoughts that are filled with Light. Choose to hold onto beliefs that serve your growth into expanded Light. You are always at the point of choice. Choose growth. And enjoy the Light!