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Breaking
Thought Patterns And Addiction
The
process of breaking patterns and addictions begins by becoming aware
of them. By this I mean becoming aware of the habitual flow of your
thoughts. To do this you must develop a sense of mindfulness. A good
way to develop mindfulness is by observing your thoughts as they are
happening, not just experiencing them in the moment, but actually
standing aside of them a little and watching them. While doing this
it is also important to remain equanimous, having no judgement over
it being a good thought or a bad thought, for judgement is also a
pollutant of the mind.
Once
you are able to observe your thoughts as they are happening, in
fairly quick time you will begin to see patterns in your thinking.
Once you can see the patterns in your thinking, you can begin to
examine how these patterns are making you feel in your body. By
developing this awareness you will come to know automatically when
you mind is flowing with polluting thoughts because you will not
feel easy in your body. Polluting thoughts will make you feel
uneasy, agitated, nervous, lethargic, heavy, and unwell in many
ways, it might even cause you to feel numb and out of touch with
your body. Conversely when your mind is purifying, you will begin to
feel well, right, lighter in your body
Now
a just a note about body sensations as they relate to intuition. It
is true that our intuition often speaks to us through our bodies by
giving us a good or bad feeling about something. But to think that
intuition can only speak to us through body sensations is confusing
how intuition works. The good / bad feelings are mechanisms
particular to a polluted mind. When one’s mind becomes purer
intuition will actually increase, but it will not be associated with
good or bad feelings, you will just know, or you might have a
vision, flash of insight, or dream and from these, you will know.
Becoming
familiar with the patterns and their related body sensations informs
us about our inner world, space. But these patterns are also
creating the outward reality of our lives. External reality is
life’s way of holding up a mirror and showing us who we are on the
inside. The reflection is often a mix of things we like and things
we do not like and most of us are likely to be focussed on the
things we don’t like, giving them greater weight and bearing. To
change them, we must change our inner world first, by breaking our
addiction to our current thought patterns.
Breaking
our addiction to our thought patterns is like performing mind
surgery on ourselves, and only we can do it. It is true that
hypnosis can have some effect, but hypnosis is one of many tools
that works (with varying success) only because we allow it. In order
to succeed we need to realise there is no quick fix for reducing and
finally extinguishing our polluting thoughts and replacing them with
purifying thoughts. It takes time because the mind is incessant, and
the brain will need to be habituated to new thoughts in order to
reconfigure its neuro-chemical activity. But once we understand this
and we have developed an awareness of our thought patterns and the
effects of those patterns and once we have begun to habituate
ourselves to observing our thoughts, we have taken a major step
toward purifying our minds and actualising its true potential. At
this point we can begin to work at a deeper purification level and
utilise some very powerful methods to accelerate this process
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