Stop Giving Power To Your Thoughts (Personal Development Wisdom Snippets) | #627

[Agi Keramidas]
Welcome to Personal Development Mastery Podcast and this is another snippet of wisdom where I select my favorite most insightful moments from previous episodes. Let's dive right in.

[Banya Lim]
But before choosing emotion or before choosing this positive emotion, well while we consider positive emotion, we first have to like work through the repetitive this recording going in our head first. Trying to choose this emotion is an active action on denying what's actually happening. So first thing is when certain thoughts come in, the thoughts create emotion.

Okay let's say negative thoughts. Usually if we do this for a long time, it creates energy and it creates as energy blockages within our body but we can talk about that a little bit more deeply. When we have these thoughts come in, we have to stop doing these three things.

First, not identifying with it. Try not to suppress it. Try not to get rid of it.

We, when we do these three things, one of these things all three are at the same time, we give energy to that thought. We literally give power to our thoughts but the thoughts like in a buddhist tradition, we said the thoughts are just thoughts. That's not us but when we give energy to this, we end up identifying with these thoughts and we think that that's us but that's not us.

Thoughts are thoughts. You know buddhist monks said thoughts are just the clouds passing in the sky or the water on the river. It will just pass through but we give power to it with these three things.

So working on not identifying with it, not try to suppress it, not try to get rid of it is the key. We give tremendous power with these three things. The science, behavioral science already been proven that when we have a certain thought that creates emotion, an energetical emotional within the body, it passes through us.

It takes 90 seconds. It takes 90 seconds. If we just give it a time and not doing these three things, it will just pass through us and it's the same thing with all the animals and animals know this so well.

Have you ever seen like two animals fighting each other like almost trying to kill each other? After a few seconds, they just move away and just peacefully walk away. They don't hold on.

They don't say, oh you did this to me. I'm gonna hurt you and how can you do this? They don't have any of this emotion.

You know like I remember I think the ducks are the very good example. There's ducks in the pond like pecking each other almost like bleeding and then after a few minutes, they just peacefully swim away and they don't think about what happened. They don't think of what he or she did to me.

By doing this, we hold on energetically and create blockage within the body. Literally blockage within the meridian system. I don't know if you ever seen acupuncture points meridian system with acupuncture points along the meridian.

Literally you create blockages based on that emotional energy. So acupuncture is actually simply going to those specific points to open them up but if people go back to the same lifestyle, same relationship, same dynamic, they'll block again. This is why I keep seeing people, okay we work on it.

They feel great then they come back with the symptom over and over and this is why I start talking to them about the connection between the emotion and the body and let them work through it and me being the guy to work on the root of the issue. Oftentimes it's based on relationships and or based on our belief about ourselves. Having this information alone opens up a lot of things.

Just someone having this information, oh those three things and that's what I do and having once again having awareness of that and having this information like I said opens up to new behavior, new thoughts and I told you for me to come out of my depression or two things movement and meditation. So that having the awareness but if you're still struggling utilize these two things meditation and movement. When I say movement it can be any kind of movement.

It can be dancing, it can be jumping around, it can be hiking, it can be martial arts. Everything that is actually geared towards actually opening the meridians. So when you are stuck in that recording of hearing the recording of negative thoughts and emotion going to yet you do these two things.

For a while consistency is more important than how long you do this and we need some discipline in the beginning. Discipline is actually required because people often judge themselves like oh that was a bad meditation. I cannot believe I have so many thoughts in my head.

No still it was a meditation. It still was a good meditation. It actually builds something within you and when you move your body oh I didn't do enough exercise whatever that might be but you've done something.

You started something. Just be consistent with it even if it's a five minutes and until the point and you go to the point that that's all you want to do. When you go into the meditative state and eventually when your channel when your meridians start opening up it's it's better than drugs and that's all you want to do all day every day.

So I would say utilize two things but as far as the movement goes you can do whatever you want to do.

[Agi Keramidas]
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