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I found this article online regarding intrusive thoughts. I thought it's interesting because I have always struggle with intrusive thoughts and I know many buddies struggle too. I thought its good to share to see if it will help anyone.

 

http://www.calmdownmind.com/overcoming-obsessive-thoughts/

 

Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts Through Relaxed Awareness

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Sen.

 

 

 

Most people who get stuck with obsessive thoughts, or people who have an anxiety condition (where their brain is constantly thinking anxious thoughts), fail to realize that this condition is a “symptom” and not the problem itself.

 

They keep trying to treat the symptom without acknowledging the real problem. They look to try to solve their obsessive thoughts through logical thinking or through positive affirmations or by trying to suppress/ignore the thoughts, and of course none of this seems to work. This is because the thoughts are just a symptom, the actual problem is with the underlying imbalance of energy (accumulation of negative energy) in the body and the high momentum of the brain.

 

Because the brain has developed a high momentum it’s able to repeat the thoughts in fast succession, and the presence of a lot of suppressed negative energy in the body creates the flavor of thought (depending on the energy that’s suppressed.

 

For example, if hatred and sexuality is suppressed the flavor of the obsessive thoughts is along the lines of sexual violence).

 

Both these issues get resolved together when one starts practicing relaxed awareness, because in this state of allowing the brain’s momentum comes down and the negative energy gets released from the body (at the cellular level).

 

Your body is an information powerhouse

 

Your body’s cells not only store nutrition, but also information in the form cellular memory.

 

They store the memory of the energy behind emotions and thoughts. These cellular memories keep recreating this energy in the body, and when you feel “negative” (fearful or hateful) about these energies coming up, you are basically creating new negative energy which again gets stored as a memory in the cells – thus keeping the cycle going.

 

Of course, some of this cellular memory gets passed on into the gene pool, hence the off-springs contain the cellular memories of their parents and ancestors, which includes their negativity.

 

The only reason why this understanding is even needed is so that you can get a sense that a good amount of your negativity is not even personal to your specific body – it was just part of your inheritance. Now this should not become an excuse to sit blaming your parents, and your family tree, rather it should just assist in you not making your negativity so personal, which allows you to release it since you are no longer investing it with personal identity.

 

Bringing relaxed awareness to obsessive thoughts

 

Remember that thoughts are fueled by your brain’s momentum and your body’s negative energy content. So just trying to solve the thoughts “logically” by telling yourself some positive statements, or seeing through the falseness of the thoughts is not enough by itself.

 

Don’t expect the thoughts to stop just because you’ve seen through their falseness, because these thoughts are running on the brain’s past momentum and are being fueled by the negative energy content in your body. You need to allow time for the release of the negative energy, and for the reduction of brain momentum, and in a simple sense you just need to stay open to allowing them, and wait.

 

Most people don’t “wait”, they get impatient too soon, they don’t trust this process of total allowing (because they don’t gain a scientific understanding of this process, and just try to “believe” it because a teacher says so), they may even think that this is too simple and want some “extra ordinary” process.

 

Here’s what relaxed awareness means:

 

Relaxed awareness just means to sit back and allow fully what arises in the mind and in the energy space of your body – it’s that simple in execution.

 

Initially, in order for your awareness to grow, it’s helpful to just watch your mind, and watch your feelings, for a few days/weeks (depending on how strong your awareness already is) as if you are watching a movie – in a sense of detached/distant observation.

 

Once you sense that you’ve become quite aware of your inner space, of thoughts/feelings, it’s time to start letting go of “trying” to be aware and just relax your awareness – like just sitting, being relaxed, and allowing what arises to arise. Don’t complicate anything, it’s really simple. The pointer is to just be open to what arises without requiring over-analysis.

 

As you stay in this space of relaxed awareness, you will notice a natural process of “release” starting to happen.

 

Releasing negative energy from your being

 

This release, I call it “energy detox”, can take a while to complete and it will happen in layers, depending on how much accumulation is present in your body. Be prepared for some restlessness in the body as the energies start getting released, it’s normal, and it’s part of the detox – you can feel fatigued during and after a layer of release. The mind can have higher intensity of thoughts (during the release) and can produce a plethora of negative images/arguments, there will be physical sensations as the energies are released and your body moves into a higher vibration. There will be periods of bliss and relief, in between the cycles of detox. Remember that each body is unique and reacts differently to this detox. Plus each person has a different load of accumulated negative energy.

 

The bottom line is that this process causes the body to start moving towards a real harmony, and the unpleasantness is just temporary.

 

Actually to go through this process is all about being an adult, and not being a child within. A true adult can handle some discomfort, but when an adult is still clinging to his/her child identity, he/she behaves like a child getting flustered at the smallest hint of discomfort, to such people the only pointer would be to realize that they are an adult now and thus not behave like a child – I would say, if you are 12 and above, and have some ability for “reason”, or logic, in your brain, you can be an adult in this sense and develop the capacity to go through this process of detox.

 

Some effects of energy detox

 

I would estimate that close to 70% of the negativity in the brain is created from the accumulated negative energy in the body (that came as part of your inheritance). The other 30% is created from learnt conditioning from the outside.

 

Your unconscious focus on this negativity, starting from your childhood days, causes the build up of negative momentum in your brain, and also causes the creation on new negative energy which starts getting accumulated. It’s only when you start becoming aware of the choice you have in releasing this negativity, that you actually start moving towards freedom from the load of accumulated negativity in you.

 

The deal with this process is that when you start becoming relaxed and allowing, the stored up negative energies start coming up more freely to be released. To relax in your being is like opening up a valve that allows the pent up water of the dam to gush out freely.

 

Most people start doubting themselves at this point, because they thought that they will just feel “blissed out” through this process, but what they find is a huge surge of negativity for a while. Another problem is that anyone who starts letting go feels blissed out for a while, which is the initial phase, and this relaxation causes the suppressed energies to move up to be released which cuts out the blissed out feeling – causing you to imagine that you did something wrong, or that you are not doing it right. When in truth, this is the way the process of detox operates, and the periods of having a high surge of negative energy coming up is a positive sign that you are emptying out so much of your past accumulation.

 

This process is temporary but when you are in the middle of the storm you don’t know when it’s going to end and this can make you feel uncertain. This again is normal, and you need to allow this feeling of uncertainty. There is a permanent ending of this energy detox, and especially during the final stages is when you may experience a lot of energy release.

 

You should look at enjoying this whole process, if you are really relaxed you can sense a calm in the background as the agitation of the energy release happens, and you can enjoy this release – and when you start enjoying this process is when the release happens more quickly because now there is very little resistance in your being. People who sit worried during the release actually create resistance to the release, and hence delay it.

 

 

 

 

Posted
I love this , I'm currently doing energy work as well . It's called reiki therapy , this is exactly what the therapist tells me , I've been in therapy for about a year , she says I should keep pushing till 2 years . I'm really hoping to get results at 2 years . Not an easy road. Thanks fir sharing
Posted

I love this , I'm currently doing energy work as well . It's called reiki therapy , this is exactly what the therapist tells me , I've been in therapy for about a year , she says I should keep pushing till 2 years . I'm really hoping to get results at 2 years . Not an easy road. Thanks fir sharing

You're welcome . This sounded like mindfulness meditation but meditation focused more on breathing . I like the fact this said "open" to anything rises in mind and body . Made more sense to me . I will start to do this tomorrow .

 

Tracy

  • 7 months later...
Posted

Initially, in order for your awareness to grow, it’s helpful to just watch your mind, and watch your feelings, for a few days/weeks (depending on how strong your awareness already is) as if you are watching a movie – in a sense of detached/distant observation.

 

Once you sense that you’ve become quite aware of your inner space, of thoughts/feelings, it’s time to start letting go of “trying” to be aware and just relax your awareness – like just sitting, being relaxed, and allowing what arises to arise. Don’t complicate anything, it’s really simple. The pointer is to just be open to what arises without requiring over-analysis.

 

Can you plz explain how to implement thses 2 steps in more depth and details?

 

Thank you.

Posted

In FAIRNESS now, Tracy, this guy is operating at a different special level, if you know what I mean...

 

Here, he is talking on his "about me" page:

 

"...The more I allowed the depth of this question to penetrate me, the more I realized that it was not just enough to know who am I but to allow this truth to then take over and operate my life. The core truth that question points to is that there is no separation, and that who I am is what a cat is, what every bucket is, what every thought is, what every tree is, what space is, every sentient and insentient creation is the “I” in different forms, and it’s also the formless, unmanifest, consciousness..."

 

and:

 

Why Do I Write

 

"...I have no agenda, no message, no will to change or fix anything, the words just come through from a deeper intention and I have no idea what purpose they will serve, if any..."

 

 

 

Sounds about right, to me  ::) ::)::)

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