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

It is only when we think we know more than God that we run
into problems.
The great news is that we don’t have to know more than Her nor
do we have to even think. All we have to do is trust in our own
intuition and have faith that our inner wisdom will show us the way
that is best for us. When you ask people who are the most abundant,
joyful, and successful how they made it, they will usually attribute
their success to some sort of higher power or luck. These people
have trusted in something greater than themselves and thus attribute
it to that instead of attributing their success to sheer willpower and
brute force.
There’s so much in life that is completely out of our control and we
can really only control a very small portion of it. This is not to say that
we give up because we can’t control our lives, it’s quite the opposite.
When we realize that we don’t have to control and try to force
everything to happen our way, we become free from suffering, pain,
and frustration and begin to fall into this state of non-thinking where
things just all happen for us instead of to us. We begin to see that
everything was perfectly placed in our lives to help us become the
exact person we are now and that if anything were changed, we
would not have what we do now. There are millions of small
circumstances and events that have to have been meticulously
orchestrated for us to be where we are now. To plan that would be
impossible and futile, yet here we are. This is the miracle of life.
To go back on a point we just made about us not having to control
things in our lives, there’s a caveat I want to highlight. It is true that
we cannot control everything that happens in our lives, but what we
can control is whether we think or not (which is the root cause of all
of our problems and negative emotions). We can decide to change
our experience of life whenever we want and how we feel at any
moment. This is how we can choose to be happy 
—
by choosing to
let go of our thinking. Isn’t that what ultimately matters at the end of
the day? It’s not about what we have, but how we feel inside that is
the true measure of success, joy, and fulfillment.
The other point I wanted to bring up is that although we can’t
control a lot of things, what we can have a say in is what we want in

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our lives, but not necessarily the how. For instance, we have the gift
of imagination (access to Infinite Intelligence), which means we can
come up with anything that we want in our lives. This is an amazing
blessing, but where things can go sour is when we think that we
need to figure out the how in order to make it happen. It is at this
point that most people give up or continue down the path of brute
force to try to bring it to life and suffer daily for it. This is why people
believe that we have to work hard and suffer for what we want in life.
That is simply not true. It is only true if we think we have to figure out
the “how” to get what we want in life. Our job is to come up with what
we want, not how to get it. The how is really up to the Universe. This
is the best-case scenario anyway because there are an infinite
number of ways to bring about what you want in life, so for our little
finite brains to figure it out would be futile, nonetheless.
We only suffer when we try to figure it all out, but we don’t have
to. This is when we want to rely on our intuition and inner wisdom to
help show us exactly what we need to do in real time to manifest
what we want. There’s no need to try to figure it all out in advance.