Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering

Don't worry, this is all normal and part of
the process of awakening.
You've already learned the hardest part, which is to practice non-
thinking and preventing your negative thinking from controlling your
life.
The reason why we feel worried, anxiety, and doubt after we’ve
experienced peace is because we have just let go of everything we
thought we knew in the world. What actually happened was the
death of the personal ego. A natural consequence is that once the
personal ego is threatened, it will do everything in its power to regain
control over your life again.
The ego is something that we can’t quite get rid of forever, which
is why even after you experience peace, there may be feelings of

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doubt, worry, and anxiety coming up. It is in this moment that the ego
(thinking) will come back up to attempt to reclaim your throne. But
worry not because you’ve already learned how you can quickly
dismantle your ego (your thinking) by remembering that your thinking
is the only cause of your negative feelings. The point is to not try to
prevent your thinking from ever entering your mind, but to shorten
the time that it takes for you to remember that it is just your thinking
that’s causing the negative emotions. It’s impossible to prevent
thinking from happening because it’s so engrained in us.
For example, it’s in our human nature that when we suddenly see
that we’re about to step on a venomous snake on our path, we will
freak out. But when you realize that it’s just a piece of rope, you see
through the illusion, knowing that your thinking is what caused you to
become afraid and you resume your peaceful walk on the beautiful
trail. We can’t prevent that initial reaction, but we can always
remember the truth and return to our natural state of peace — and
that’s all that matters.
Another reason that we may feel anxiety, worry, and doubt once
we experience peace is because we were using a colossal amount
of energy when we were thinking all of the time. Most people spend
the majority of their day in a state of stress (thinking), which
consumes enormous amounts of energy. When we stop thinking, this
energy you used to use to think is now “freed up”, but it hasn’t been
directed anywhere yet and what happens is we return to our old
patterns of putting that energy back into thinking because that is how
we were conditioned. What we can do in this case is to channel the
newfound energy into our goals of inspiration. This is the cure and
intervention of preventing this energy from going back into
overthinking.
For this to work, make sure that you’ve spent some time creating
your goals out of inspiration (versus desperation) and having it top of
mind so that you can channel all of your energy towards it once you
experience this phenomenon. If you have only goals of desperation
in your mind, then directing energy towards it will only perpetuate the
thinking and negative feelings.

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What tends to help many people in this stage is to also have an
“activation ritual”. An activation ritual is a morning routine that helps
them get into a state of non-thinking and flow. It helps you build
momentum in a positive direction immediately when you wake up so
that it’s easier to stay in that state of non-thinking for the rest of the
day. An object in motion will stay in motion. I never understood why
spiritual masters and all great leaders have a morning routine until I
understood the power of non-thinking and momentum.
Here’s the good news: now that all of your energy isn't tied up into
thinking anymore, you can now use this freed-up energy and
channel it into creating new goals from inspiration to fuel and propel
you into your new life full of peace, joy, and love.

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