DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2019
- So much of our suffering is generated by our thoughts. In this video we explore what thought is, where our thoughts come from, and how we might change our patterns of thinking.
"When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be our reality, we suffer."
- Adyashanti
"Here is a new spiritual practice for you. Don't take your thoughts too seriously."
- Eckhart Tolle
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As sadguru said , we don't suffer life, we suffer our thoughts.
TRUTH!
So true
We don't suffer life, we suffer from our thoughts.
Very well said. I think (I may be wrong) that the experience of every suffering whether physical pain, loss, injustice or of any other kind, arise in our minds in the form of thoughts.
Mind exaggerates, manipulates, tricks us into suffering. All of these thru thoughts.
It’s almost as if humans were programmed to perceive the worse in everything, first....Whatever one focuses on becomes stronger in one’s life. I try not only to focus on the positive, but to also feel positive. Positive thoughts! Positive Feelings! I’ve never even been hugged by ANYONE blood related and I’m an adult, not by my parents, not by my siblings, but I never dwell on it.....I still have to proceed with MY life for which I’m grateful...👏🏾
Sending love and good vibes your way 💕🌞🍀
He tells it so simple and down to earth. I appreciate it that he is not a "screaming" UA-camr looking for attention by "selling" an idea...these people all sound the same. I like THIS guy🤗
Yhup like many religious speakers who scream and shout to get their points across
You eloquently sum up concepts that I have been struggling with for a few years now. Unfortunately, there has been no persons in my life that can share or help expound on these concepts, until now. You've helped me by expressing these understandings exactly as I understand them to be, AND you do it in about twenty minutes! Reaffirming that I am on the right track to growing into a responsible being. Thank you.
“ I can hear the birds singing praises to God”, in the background...🙏
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Always ❤️😌 at least through birds we are able to hear god fully and not interrupted
@@goldenlamb777 Is the gods name just god? Im confused what god is this?
Clear, concise, articulate and to the point. You are a natural born teacher. You're not superficial and just skim the surface of your topics. You go deep and yet you keep it simple enough for me to understand. Your videos are so rich with meaning and information I can't take them all in at one sitting. I have to go away and digest what I've just heard before I can handle more. What a pleasure to listen to you. Your message is profound and I am using what I hear to help me on my spiritual journey. I'm so glad I found your channel!
We are the content of man's conciousness.... if more people were exposed to what you are saying, it would change our consciousness. Thanks for sharing...
It wasn't until I learned and recognized my annoying thoughts as just constantly steaming, unending "data - data - data - data - data - data" that I was able to catch it, become aware of it and quiet my mind. It can be done, it just takes time.
Hi. Can I ask how you did it?. Do we try to make the thoughts go away and be blank or occupy it with just nice thought ? Thankyou
Hi Donna, I can only tell you what I do personally, everyone does it differently depending on their experience and what works for them. The moment when I catch myself thinking useless/worrying/irritating thoughts, I recognize what I am doing, I say and think the word "clear". That stops the current thought pattern. I acknowledge to myself this is something I wish to be free of. I then take a moment to breathe, relax, clear and free my thoughts by "picturing nothing, a blank peaceful space where there are no thoughts or words, perfect nothingness". ha ha! It's not perfect but in time and with practicing it again and again, I catch them quicker, get rid of them faster and have them less frequently. Hope you are having a good weekend! Charles
@@charleslaughton8092 well I can only say a big Thankyou from my heart for explaining it so well Charles I really do appreciate your description of some so personal to you. I like the idea of using the word clear. That would work for me too. As you say, it takes practice. I am trying right now to be more patient in everything. Im 62 now, but since a child have always been erratic, I'm longing to have more peace of mind. Now the children are grown, I have more time for myself, and I am using apps to listen too. But I came across this one a few days ago , I am so pleased. Its a lovely channel. Anyway , Thankyou again for your sharing, I shall keep it to refer to. take care 🙂
....yes, this is a wonderful channel, very simple, easy, quiet and non-judgmental. I think "erratic" thinking is actually a very normal function of our human brain in that it is doing what it is programmed to do and that is to think helter-skelter about ideas/thoughts/feelings 24 hours a day, even in our dreams/sleep. The best news is that we can step in and re-think and re-train our brains to a certain extent. It actually makes me happy to think that I can observe myself thinking about something negative, spot it, halt it and re-guide it in another direction. Some days I have to "re-guide" my thoughts many many many many times but I would rather do that then to believe that I am stuck thinking nonsense/negativity and racing thoughts. Keep up the good work Miss Donna! One of my favorite sayings is "Today is the first day of the rest of your life and if that doesn't work out then tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life" meaning if you have a bad day, you get another chance tomorrow to start all over again...ha ha!
@@charleslaughton8092 love your wisdom. You have been very helpful..I have heard of the first part of today is the first day, but not the second. And its a good way to push on through. Thankyou once again and take care in this crazy world of ours. Always has been tho. 😆 I am in the UK btw
I have felt so much calmer and happier since I have emptied my mind of a lot of thoughts. If I catch myself having a negative thought about someone I send them as much love and compassion as I can muster, really pushing it to be the most I can give. I hope that I am feeding my good wolf so that she will win.
What you said about having absent parents and carrying that with you hit heavy. I was given up for adoption at age 6, and held in so much pain for so many years. It shook my to my very core. I am now working on finally facing had to face this feeling head on and let my spirit heal. I hope you all find healing 🙏
I can’t even imagine how hard that’d be on a person, tackling that type of trauma takes a lot of strength. I hope you’ve healed a lot even since you commented this. Keep on keeping on! ❤️
I’m so glad I found your channel. You manage to precisely articulate everything I have been thinking about for the past year and a half. Thank you for your content- I appreciate you so much. 🙏
sameeeee literaly!!
@TAME_the_PAIN the lesser likes the better quality, ;) trust me. its no mainstream bullshit gurus to have many likes ,just a tight amall circle of people who know quality
Wow i was starting to write a comment and it started im so glad..then i noticed your comment right below started the same way...pretty cool huh.
same 👀
I am also so glad to have found your channel today. I am a suffering human who wants to get better. Thank you.
It is up to us to teach our children mindfulness and introduce them to meditation. These things arnt taught in school, but we are our children's greatest teacher🌼
I just shared this with my young adult son. ☺️
If you teach the children mindfulness awareness you won't need to introduce mediation, because every moment is meditation and these things aren't taught in public school cause public school doesn't exist to make people good happy healthy people it's existence is for the purpose of making workers and shaping worldviews set by authorities
I feel like this just saved my life at the moment 😢🥺 Thank you 💜💜💜💜💜
“It only affects us to the degree we believe it.” 💯
What we give attention to the most is what shows up the most. And not by any kind of “force” but simply by our attention 💎
And now I finally understand when people say "you aren't your thoughts and your thoughts aren't yours" I always felt so conflicted with that cause I felt like I couldn't be me whatever I thought. But now I finally understand! There is a difference between an ego talking and your higher self. Thank you for explaining!!
The goal in this game of life is Enlightenment.
5:08 This reminds me of the film 'In Bruges' where the two main characters are having two wildly different emotional experiences of the city. Such an amusing film...but yeah, vivid example of a stark contrast in personal emotional experience given the same stimulus.
My thoughts cajole me, wheedle & winnow their way along beside me. They tell me stories, they deceive me without even intending to. We trust our thoughts implicitly.
Try to escape your thoughts for a few moments, and see how reluctant they are to let go. They don't mean you deliberate harm. They're more like a rambunctious pet pulling us into periodic danger.
All you need to do is calm the mind like such a pet, put it at ease, let it become peaceful and take a rest. And like a pet it comes to trust YOU more over time, and starts to work with you, not against you.
The stronger such moments of retreat from thoughts become, and thus the more our mind trusts us, the more measured and peaceful and truly objective it becomes.
Help your thoughts become your friend. And everything changes, without fanfare, without sudden shifts. Your life changes like a landscape being released from a great storm.
Heavy, Heavy, Heavy, Heavy!This has to be the one of the top messages on "thought-life processing" that I've ever heard!!! I'm a 45 yr old man who's battled mental health items most of my life. I just left church service and needed to hear something on how not to believe our thoughts and found this message. Seeing thoughts as JUST a interpretation is such a huge discovery for me! I will also share this video with others! GOD bless 🙏🏾
Awesome person
As always, a lot of wisdom in this message.
I fear that most people are to lazy for deep introspection.
Believing is so much easier.
Hence the world we live in.
It takes some a great deal of suffering to be in a mental state that is ready to listen to a different way. That's what it was for me. It wasn't laziness, in my experience-- in fact, being told I was lazy just solidified that self-perspective and perpetuated more of the same. I just didn't know any other way. Trying harder wasn't the key; it was simply a lack of awareness. And awareness comes when the soil has been tilled and prepared. ♥️
@@j2futures500 A wonderful response.
You are right. I know it’s cause I’m lazy. I hate it
@@j2futures500 trust me pal I’m LAZY!!!!
@@j2futures500 I’ll try my best. Thank you.
Your videos added a calmness to my heart tonight on this very strange journey. Thank you.
I wish I could hang out with you for a long period of time. Knowledgeable and soothing.
I'm in that 'space'
... observing...feel liberated... If I choose to :)
I needed to hear this, thank you! :)
This is so true! The thoughts and beliefs we have about ourselves have an enormous influence on our lives. We should better observe our thoughts and our feelings in order to better deal with them.
This video really helped me. I'm stuck with all sorts of thoughts after the woman i loved cheated on me with another man.
Our brains are powerful organs, too powerful sometimes. Overthinking can become an illness, which is why meditation and mindfulness are cool. I like the workbook called 30 Days to Reduce Anxiety by Harper Daniels for slowing down and grounding.
I can only reiterate what Nicole has already said. You explain everything with such clarity and authenticity. Thank you so very much for your insights. You help me to understand and see things so differently now. 🦋🌾 Thank you
I so much appreciate the way you authentically impart your insights and also the location. The subjects that you teach are so helpful for everyday life and for everyone and also for people who are on a spiritual path. The talk sinks in with your listener easy because of your easy and genuine nature. Thank you!
Awaken Insight Yes I believe in all of my thoughts and yes I believe in everything you said in this video because every moment of existence is real including our thoughts. The lie is still the truth because the truth is still the lie, you either have always believed this is your first acceptance of existence(illusion) or you have always accepted this as your infinite first belief of existence(reality) which will repeat infinitely as neutral finite knowledge, but you can't have the reality without the illusion and vice versa. History is only based on being and becoming existence and becoming and being existence because you can't have one without the other as the finite neutral existence of history, knowledge is finite but it must be infinitely believed by replicating itself infinitely, your first belief of existence is your only reality so it must be infinite by repeating itself infinitely.
May you be free from danger
May you have mental happiness
May you have physical Happiness
May you have ease of well being
Recommended reading for this video: _The Power of Now_ by Eckhart Tolle.
Also Awareness by Anthony de Mello.
Brilliant mind. A lot of respect. Thank you 💚
I asked this question (6:14)when I was taking a metaphysics class and the teacher looked at me puzzled and said I didn’t believe in myself and my ego was fighting the process. I left a religious church (prior to attending school) because when questions are asked and can’t be answered they blame you for asking or deflect and try to make you question your question. Why, because they don’t have an answer. I left the school and never went back.
Thank you for sharing🌸
This video has brought much confirmation to the cognitive behavioral therapy I do for myself daily. I tend to attach others beliefs to myself and take things very serious and personal. This has created much suffering for me, as these thoughts shaped and molded my life for so long. It has stopped me from doing the things that I love and being around the people that I love. Like you said, you cant forcefully change your thoughts but you have to have the belief and power within yourself to overcome those thoughts with positive ones and in time you will see that results of the positive thinking. I love your content and I will share it with others.
You have no idea how vitally helpful your sharing this content has just been to me. You have just confirmed something i have felt almost crazy for thinking recently, which is that maybe our perceptions shouldnt be so relied upon bc they are limited and therefore many times, inaccurate. That what i have been accepting as truth and reality (my thoughts) has been actually hurting me and my relationships. I love your way of calling this our "interpretation s". I feel so much peace and relief behind this. Thanks.✌🌹💚
I am glad he brought up the fable of the two wolves. I have this countless times before.
Dude you worded that so beautifully, i finally understand meditation. Thank you brother
Thx for your insights they really help.❤
The wolf story is enlightening to me, thanks!
You cannot control what thoughts pop in your head, BUT you can control which thoughts you feed and which you choose to ignore, just don't feed the thoughts that you feel that aren't good/useful for you.
In the past I personally fed the wrong thoughts but at some point I become more aware of this and learned to better control my thoughts and I feel that I am doing much better now. I had started overthinking a lot because of my work requires a lot high level thinking but then I became aware and learned to relax more outside of work.
thank you so much Nada, I was in a bad place mentally and your words I used to listened to years ago came back to me and I found this video again ❤ I feel much better and understand that placing too much weight on my thoughts was making me miserable
I find that when your meditating anytime during the day, when you have a thought that's connected to a feeling that's when you should be aware of the thought , because there's something deeper then just the thought itself so when you have that feeling that's connected to a thought dig deep and find out it's root origin good or bad and seek to act upon through confessing or verbalizing the thought and emotion and seek whatever form of reconciliation, whether it be forgiveness if needed or just a realization of it then letting it go and with it flying away on the wings of your acceptance.
Wow. I prayed for wisdom and here it is. Great stuff. You have helped me and affirmed many of my own thoughts. Love from Ireland
You are the best spiritual teacher I have listened to.
You talk simply but always hear something that I need to hear.
God bless you
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Absolutely, one exapmple of this is an image of money. in my family we had a really negative image of wealth and rich people in our mind. I was really surprised to realize this. Materkit helped me to trasnform my limitations and I realised that money is a pure energy. Tomorrow, I will share a video review about mehtods that helped me to unlock my mind. I am still on my way, though. namaste
For years I have had thoughts that are not mine, mixed in with my thoughts. “What if you trip on that and die slow” or “if you don’t do this or that, someone will use it against you, or die.” It goes on until I literally yell at it to shut up. I’m not mentally ill. I know this is some fear of imperfection or accidents. But it comes randomly and expounds until I tell it to shut up, and then it’s like someone did shut up and sit down.
Most people tell their negative thoughts to shut up, you are normal.
Loved what you said today , It was the right time for me to hear it , thank you 🙏 from my 💜
I love that little wolf parable.
Always been one of my favorites.
You have such a great manner of speaking, it's very calming and perfect for your subject manner. Whenever I don't feel at rest I watch your videos and your manner of speaking always helps! Love your videos, really interesting ideas you present, I agree with all you've said! Keep up the great work!
Even just listening to your voice is very calming. Thank you. Today I had a very bad experience. But finding your channel made my day.
LOVE YOUR SPIRIT! THANK YOU FOR SUCH A LOVELY AND SINCERE MESSAGE 🕉
Nice video thanks. The mind certainly has the capability to be critical of itself, doesn't necessarily have to be due to a third person. I would think that the majority of my negative thoughts come from self criticisms rather than due to something that someone has said. Many people can have perfectionist streaks in them so can't be happy when things are not quite right despite other people saying things are fine.
I can go weeks at a time without my mind speaking from meditation practices. Many blessings to you sir for spreading awarness🙏🙏🙏
I love the wolf story at the end.🐺🐺
This is beautiful thank you 🙏 ❤️😊
Hello. I have just stumbled across your channel. Thankyou for the absolute clarity of articulation on this subject. And as for The Cherokee Parable, l had such an emotional reaction when the grandfather gave the answer to which wolf would win..so true and beautifully put. This video content is also relevant on the current Global situation occuring in 2020. I have subscribed and will devour all your videos as a very healthy distraction. X
It also helps to surround yourself with people who are constructive, compassionate, and use words of encouragement to each other, and accepts you for who you are. Surrounding yourself with uplifting people is a wonderful feeling.
While if around those who try to motivate by put downs, or rather have you hide parts of yourself, you won't feel great about yourself.
Surround yourself with people who uplift.
Wow! Another deep message. Thank you. 🙏♥️
What a wonderful new perception! Looking forward to presenting this video in our Outpatient with a class discussion. Substance Abuse Outpatient education. This is a great tool in addressing core issues, which, more often than not, will rekindle a relapse. Blessings and gratitude.
It all begins with our inner dialogue with ourselves.
Thoughts are interpretations, not truth. That change in perspective using the word "interpretation" has been monumental for me. To deepen your perspective on this search "Donald Hoffman do we see reality." We don't see reality, we see interpretations of reality which was evolutionarily best for our survival.
THis thinker made me think and feel that we are the slave of our own thoughts sometimes.
Best advice I was ever given: “The unexamined life is not worth living”
This video reminded me of that. Thank you, friend!
Hiya, I have recently found your channel and really find your videos inspiring and uplifting. They make me reflect on what really is important in life and to be grateful for all what we have.
When the student is ready.... it is then, that the TEACHER arrives! I surrender to his guidance and light. Om Shanti, Shanti, SHANTII.
This is an excellent evaluation on the nature of truth and believing our own thoughts and assumptions we gather from others.
you are well thought out and verry articulate.
Thank you for this beautiful nugget
thank you so much for this. i'm deeply grateful.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you♾
Great Insight Thank you so much!!
Best talk ever.
Brilliant video. Thank you so much
Wow ❤
Another great thinker
I’m very grateful that I found your channel.
Love Nada ❤️
A phenomenal spiritual teacher.
I think like this alot...
This can also apply to many religions: Don't believe everything you read
Thank you!
Beautiful video, thank you for this.
i will give this some thought :p
Wow soo true thank you so much🙏🏾
Awesomeness
I enjoyed this
I didn't know I was an ugly child if every one hadn't told me.Now I love an except myself even though I am physical ugly.Im a loving caring person inside and that's what matters.
Thanks for this clear explanation
Personal interpretation! One story many thoughts! Namaste
I love your content so much! Thank you for being you! 🖤
You are wise indeed...I'm so glad I found your channel...thanks for sharing your ideas and explaining them so clearly 💜
True stuff brother. Thank you
Thank you soooo much...
Your insights are timeless and helpful for me. Thank you.
well said..thank you so much for sharing this..for sharing your wisdom..
Thank you ❤️
This vid is a primer for all beginning meditation practices. Nice job.