Go with it or observe only

Thoughts hold no power over you except when you allow yourself to believe you are your thoughts. You can continue forging relationships with certain thoughts, allowing them to shape your life with subtle influences.  You can listen to voices that prompt you to believe thoughts are real or, you can see them all as temporary visitors and read into instructions for good karma.

As you open existing awarness, you see what is happening in thoughts and feelings. In this state, you still sense division.  As you sense the watcher and what is watched, you are susceptible to moodswings and doubt. You may sense you are about to lose something precious.  Ask the heart whether what is real can ever be lost. Why does the mind vex and fear losing what is unreal? 

At a certain point, you no longer identify with streams of thought. You no longer observe life, a dream. Suddenly, you go with the flow and are it. Undivided attention arises. Almost no effort is required. Joy arises in the space of silence.  Achieve the Shanti you really are.

Comments

[Berndt]

Thoughts are also delivered by spirit. For many, thoughts keep cycling around and around until they find their place in the scheme or are sent home through certain and definite choices as they show up in our inner viewing screen. So very true, if one is witness to thoughts instead of taking a ride upon them, they begin to lose power or grip on the unconscious part of ourselves, and so they appear to atrophy, but are in essence shifting into the conscious side of the spectrum from the unconscious side. The scales of thought are merely being tipped in favor of an open heart over a closed heart.

But like a house that is being renovated, such thoughts with time re-emerge to have the chance to be processed again within our inner homes. They are here initially by request maybe from this life, from past or concurrent lives, or by request of our ancestors. Therefore, in order to conclude their mission as messengers and emissaries of change, thoughts too require loving attention. Their neglect keeps them floating in objects and within out atmosphere.

One could say that the earths atmosphere is filled with seemingly countless thoughts that are backlogged, creating a toxic and heavy cloud that causes people to not see clearly due to their fuming exhaust. So yes, we can just be witness to thoughts just as we can be witness to garbage on the street.

As an empowering practice, I'd say it is best to be witness to thoughts as they are noted. This way one can see eventually that they are not their thoughts. But when enough soul power is regained, and one's identity has shifted away from the ego.... then I would advocate that people begin being responsive to any thoughts that emerge, but now seen and interacted with from the vantage point of the open heart or the expanding soul. In this way, we can each do our part in cleaning up the unchecked pollution of the earth by giving care to the ghosts that have been abandoned. We are here on this earth for a reason... contracted to stick to it like glue till we re-figure in how to let go of this rationale. Love for the Earth is of due course the solution that frees the cosmos up..... and therefore ourselves from any sticky obligations.

[Liara Covert]

Bern, observing thoughts is indeed a powerful practice. Spirit is the silent watcher. Operating purely from Spirit offers a spiritual perspective on everything, from light and sound to thoughts and purpose. Many people speak about soul knowledge. Soul is your core, inner appearance, the unique expression of you. It is forever growing, expanding, experiencing on Earth and beyond. Spirit is never changes. Its causeless, eternal, unchanging. It can be explained by the mind but not understood by the mind.