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

CHAPTER 16
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BEGIN LIVING IN
NON-THINKING (POTENTIAL OBSTACLES)
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” — Dalai
Lama
As you go along your journey of non-thinking, you’ll inevitably hit
some roadblocks along the way, so I’d like to bring up some of those
potential issues before you encounter them so that it is a little bit
easier for you.
Once you begin living your life in non-thinking, you’ll be having the
time of your life not having very many worries, stress, or problems in
your life. Many of them will just vanish before your eyes because if
you don’t see things as problems anymore, they literally stop being a
problem for you. What you’ll notice is that you haven’t felt this type of
peace and serenity in your life before and thus it will feel unfamiliar.
We as humans biologically don’t like what’s unfamiliar because it
means uncertainty. What’s ironic is that right about this time is when
most people begin thinking that something is wrong because they
feel so happy and peaceful the majority of the day. Many feel like
they’re not as productive, have lost their “edge”, or are just lazier.
This is far from the truth and it’s just your brain attempting to begin
thinking again to create the illusion of “safety” it wants to feel. The
truth is that we are most productive as humans when we are happy
and in a state of non-thinking. Time seems to fly when we are in a
state of pure joy. Tasks are easier, we perform better, people
gravitate to us, we attract way more abundance, and miracles begin
to occur out of nowhere. You just have to stay in the state of non-
thinking long enough to experience these things and you’ll never
want to go back.
This is when faith becomes of the utmost importance — having
faith that things will be okay. Know that the Universe is working for
you, not against you. That everything happens for a reason and that

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there are no failures in life, just lessons and opportunities for us to
grow. We must have faith in the unknown because that’s the only
place that contains the possibility for anything to be different than the
life we’re living right now. The unknown is where all possibilities
exist, including everything you could possibly ever want for your life.
Once you have the courage to make the leap into the unknown and
to not be afraid of it anymore, it’s impossible that your life won’t
change.
If you begin to feel like something’s wrong because you feel way
too peaceful and content, know that it’s only your mind trying to
make you think again. Your mind is the greatest salesman and
knows exactly what to say to get you to bring you back into its
vicious cycle of destructive thinking. It is in this moment that you
have the choice to have faith in the unknown and stay in the feeling
of happiness, peace, and love or to go back to the old patterns of
familiar pain and psychological suffering. We can either choose to be
free and happy in the unknown or to be confined and suffer in the
familiar.
If you do fall back into thinking, it is completely okay. Do not beat
yourself up about it. Don’t feel guilty that it happened. There’s no
need to punish yourself because that will only perpetuate the
thinking. Know that it is absolutely human to think. Once you catch
yourself and see that it is your thinking that’s causing your suffering,
that’s all you have to do in order to bring yourself to a state of peace,
happiness, and love again. The transition can happen painlessly and
effortlessly if you let it.

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