Identifying Mental Noise
Mental
Noise is the incessant churning of the mind. Over and over it turns onto
things that no longer need thinking of, those things that continuously
play in our head, but serve no good purpose. Like the TV show you
watched last night, or what someone really meant by their comment, or if
only… or those negative thoughts you have about yourself, or
others....
We
all experience (and indeed suffer) mental noise from time to time, but
it is the degree to which we experience it that determines the quality
of our lives. It is easy to recognise that when we are happy, when
positive things are happening to us, we are full of life and energy. The
thoughts we are experiencing are life enhancing. They are positively
charged and consequently we are positively charged. The opposite is true
for mental noise
Mental
noise tends to cause worry, is: compulsive, redundant, a waste of
energy, bad for your health and diminishes the outlook of your life. The
next time you feel tired, but can find no reason, examine the quality of
your thoughts leading up to feeling tired. It may well be those thoughts
had a negative charge.
If
you’re not sure if a thought has a negative or positive charge, just
ask yourself, how the thought makes you feel? The shift in feeling might
be subtle, but thoughts always affect the emotional body and rarely do
thoughts cause a neutral feeling. If you are not used to tuning into
your emotional body, then, when you ask yourself how a thought feels, go
with your first instinct. You will rarely be wrong, because the
emotional body informs the instinct. By doing this, you will also be
developing your intuition.
Realising
that all thoughts count as credits or debits for our emotional well
being, the real work then, like that of making a good life, lies in
becoming evermore aware of our thoughts and refocusing them to our
credit. This means due diligence in monitoring our thoughts, but this is
difficult because with an undisciplined mind, thought, and in
particular, mental noise runs on autopilot. We are so often not even
aware of where our thoughts are taking us. Have you ever driven home and
upon arriving realizing you were a "million miles away"? This
is a good example of how undisciplined our minds are. Our thoughts just
free flow and wherever they flow, so do our lives.
To begin tuning out mental
noise, we first must become mindful of it. This is the great art
achieved with meditation. A truly disciplined mind is arguably the
hardest thing to accomplish in one's life, for it is in accomplishing
this one thing, that all other things are accomplished. But so few of us
realise this. Most of us think that if we get the right education, the
right job, the right partner ... we will attain our dreams, but this
rarely happens for most of us, because what we fail to understand is
that our minds are so full of mental noise, that we aren't able to
use it optimally.
To access the true capacity of our mind, we must first begin to quiet
it. Practice stilling it and observing where it habitually goes. Like
all things there is a pattern to the way one's mind travels. By
observing it and refocusing it when it goes somewhere that is negatively
charged, by replacing negatively charged thoughts with positively
charged ones, or having gaps of no thoughts, we begin the process of
mastering our mind and changing the mental noise to mental music.
Learn
to identify the
vibrational signature of your thought power.
May All
Beings Know: True Love, True Peace, True Happiness
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