Don't Believe Everything You Think

by Joseph Nguyen

The only constant is change.

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” - Sheryl Sandberg

I promise that you are not the exception, even though it may seem like it. Love knows no boundaries.

An open mind and a willing heart are all you need to receive every answer you've been looking for.

These physical manifestations are the byproduct of this inside-out understanding of how our experiences of life work. In actuality, we only want these external results like money and significance because we want to experience certain feelings inside such as love, joy, peace,

and fulfillment.

The feeling is really what we want in our lives, not the physical things, but the trap is that we believe the physical things will give us those feel...

All the answers lie deep within your soul.

I truly admire anyone who still has the hope that what they're looking for is still out there. This means you have hope. Without hope, we have nothing, so the fact that you're here, reading this now, is a testament to your faith, courage, and strength.

You must look beyond the form (the physical) to see and experience the truth (the spiritual).

Truth cannot be intellectualized; it can only be experienced. The truth lies within a feeling, which is why it cannot be formulated into a word.

People also describe it as the most familiar unfamiliar feeling. It feels like you're finally home. Look for that feeling, and everything will be revealed to you.

Don’t try to use your intellect to figure it out — you won’t. As soon as you intellectualize it, you've missed it.

The truth comes in the form of a feeling. From that feeling will come the wisdom and truth you’re

looking for, which will set you free. That's what we're all ultimately seeking, isn't it?

If you want to find the truth, look for simplicity.

suffering is optional. In other words, pain is unavoidable, but how we react to the events and circumstances that happen in our lives is up to us, and that will dictate whether we suffer or not.

“Thought is not reality; yet it is through thought

that our realities are created.”

Reality is that the event happened, with no meaning, thinking, or interpretation of it. Any meaning or thinking we give the event is on us and that is how our perception of reality is created. This is how our experience of life is created from the inside out.

The root cause of our suffering is our own thinking.

Our perception of reality is very real. We will feel what we think, and our feelings are real.

In short, the moment we stop thinking is when our happiness begins.

“It’s not other people, situations, or circumstances. It’s not the empty boat, but my reaction to it that causes my

anger. All the people or situations that make me upset and angry are just like the empty boat. They don’t have the power to make me angry without my own reaction.”

“I see that you have found what is really making you angry and overcome that.”

Your soul is the reason why you’re even on this journey in the first place — to find peace, love, and joy for yourself.

If you want to be free, happy, peaceful, and full of love, then you will need to let go of listening only to your mind and go beyond it by tuning into something much greater that will help you not just to survive, but to thrive.

Thinking, on the other hand, is the act of thinking about our thoughts. This takes a significant amount of energy, effort, and willpower (which is a finite resource). Thinking is actively engaging with the thoughts in your mind. You don’t have to engage with each thought in your mind, but when you do, that is thinking.

Thinking is the root cause of all our psychological suffering.

Positive thoughts, or thoughts that feel good, are not a result of thinking. They are, instead, generated by our natural state of peace, love, and joy. They are a byproduct of a state of being, not a state of thinking.

It is not necessary to think about our thoughts or to judge them. It does us no good to do so.

Thoughts create. Thinking destroys.

The reason thinking destroys is because as soon as we begin to think about the thoughts, we cast our own limiting beliefs, judgements, criticisms, programming, and conditioning onto the thought, thinking of infinite reasons as to why we can’t do it and why we can’t have it.

These are thoughts of creation. Thoughts are inherently infinite, expansive, and energetically positive. You’ll know you are having thoughts from the divine when you feel positive emotions, feel lighter, and alive.

If I’m having a lot of negative emotions, I know that I’m thinking too much. This is another example of how we’re naturally built for success.

What insights and epiphanies did you have? What's crazy is that most people didn't have any thoughts going through their mind when they felt the happiest and the most amount of love in their lives.

This brings us to another truth: you do not have to have thoughts or think to feel positive emotions.

The beautiful part about truth is that it needs no justification because it can be experienced

right here right now. It doesn't need to be proven or rationalized to you and you experienced this truth firsthan...

which is why whenever we feel extremely stressed, we are having a LOT of thinking going on.

In other words, the less thinking we have going on, the stronger the positive emotion we feel in the present.

Therefore, it's not WHAT we're thinking about that is causing us suffering, but THAT we are thinking.

we begin to think about the thoughts we're having, thus blocking the direct connection to Infinite Intelligence and we feel stressed, anxious, depressed, and fearful. It is not about the content of our thinking, but that we're thinking, which is the root cause of our suffering.

The less thinking we have, the more space we create for positive emotions to naturally surface.

It is only when we begin thinking (believing the illusion or ego) that we block this flow of Universal Mind and begin to feel separated, frustrated, lonely, angry, resentful, sad, depressed, and fearful.

Without Universal Consciousness, we wouldn't be able to experience anything. Our five senses would have no use because there's nothing to be aware of.

Universal Thought is the raw material of the Universe from which we can create from. It is our ability to think and create form from the energy of the Universal Mind.

“A crowded mind leaves no space for a peaceful heart.” — Christine Evangelou

His mind had just created his own hell — one filled with resentment, hatred, self-defense, and fury.