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

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
firsthand by the experiment we just did.
Here's why we don't need to have thoughts or think to feel positive
emotions like joy and love.
Our natural state of being IS joy, love, ecstasy, freedom, and
gratitude. This may be hard to believe because if it's natural, why
don't we feel that way all the time? I'll answer this in a bit.
If we want to see the natural state of anything, one of the best
ways is to look at nature and the state of it in its infancy (before it is
affected and conditioned by its environment).
For example, let's look at the natural state of a baby. What is a
baby's natural and default state (assuming the baby wasn't abused,
neglected, or had any physical issues)? Are babies naturally
stressed, anxious, fearful, and self-conscious? Or are they naturally
in a state of bliss, happiness, and love?

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Our natural state of being is joy, love, and peace. Therefore, any
thinking that we do will only take us away from those natural states
of being, which is why whenever we feel extremely stressed, we are
having a LOT of thinking going on. The strength of the negative
emotion we feel is in direct proportion to how much thinking we are
doing in the moment.
On the other hand, the intensity of the positive emotion we feel is
inversely proportional to the amount of thinking we are doing in the
moment. In other words, the less thinking we have going on, the
stronger the positive emotion we feel in the present.
To see the truth in this, recall a few other memories you had when
you were extremely stressed and anxious and see how much
thinking was going on at the time.
Take about 1-2 minutes to do this.
Then recall a few memories where you were at your happiest or
felt the most joy and love and see how much thinking you had going
on at that time.
Take another 1-2 minutes to do this before moving on to really
experience and internalize the truth of what you see.
An analogy that my coach taught me that helped crystallize this
concept was to imagine our mind has a speedometer (like in a car),
but instead of miles per hour, it is thoughts per minute. The more
thinking we have going on, the higher the “thought-o-meter” goes,
and if we have enough thinking going on, it'll go into the red zone.
This is when we feel extremely stressed, burned out, frustrated, and
angry.
It is not the content of our thinking that causes us stress, but that
we are thinking, period. The amount of thinking we have going on is
directly correlated to the magnitude of stress and negative emotions
we are experiencing at any given moment. When you're
experiencing a lot of frustration, stress, anxiety, or any negative
emotions, just know that it is because you're thinking, and the
intensity of those emotions is directly correlated to how much
thinking is going on.

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