How do you stop a runaway train of thought?
(to those who answered this Q last night: my apologies for deleting it)
2007-12-16 15:10:15 · 22 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When i notice my thoughts begin to race, i immediately start to repeat to myself over and over again....
God is in me, God works through me, God is everywhere...
This always seems to pull me back to my center...however, just because this works for me, does not guarantee that it will work for you....but it's worth try...
I hope you find what it is you seek...
Blessings to you Sunman
)o( Trinity
2007-12-16 16:48:31 · answer #1 · answered by trinity 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Don't forget the nature around you of the physical plane -- not the world plane -- but the nature-physical. Somehow your energy is arcing out, you are not grounding your electric. Go and do physical exercises, which uses ample oxygen -- that which is aerobic in nature. For this will re-attune the rhythm of physical breathing to the subtle half of breathing. Do physical things, outdoors. Do not ride cars or buses or any means of movement that is not driven by your own native force.
When one breathes, he or she is not only taking in oxygen but in fact is calibrating to the very life force itself as timed to the pulse and impulse of light and sound.
You are too much in the head apparently.
Do not forget about the needs of the physical domain. Thus yours may well be somewhat a peculiar inversion of writer's block, as it were, which comes entirely from a experiential deficit, if that makes sense... In other words, step away from the mind. So go now and create a struggle of some sort. The most neutral way of doing so is to allow physical exercise, which builds good karma, say, if you cannot in any other way create the needed neutral core at the outset.
2007-12-16 17:58:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Before you meditate, try focusing on a single point. An object nearby for example. Do this for a couple minutes to clear your mind. Then visualize a box in your mind, if that thought comes up, throw it in the box. Close the box and kick it out of your mind. Then think of another saying. Try "my life, health and prosperity is improving every day." Should work.
2007-12-16 15:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by Jakero Evigh 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sunman,
No worries.
When I find myself in troubled thoughts I go
to my favorite book in the Bible. It's in the
Old Testament. the book of Proverbs:
I've thought about what the Scriptures
are trying to teach me and I've come up
with this; God has given us the ability to
see life with objectivity and handle life
with stability.
When we operate with the wisdom of God,
we respond to it in calm confidence.
There's a absence of fear and we are not
seized with panic. That's how I stop the
runaway train of thought.
Sunman, You Nor I can stop the destruction
happening around the World.( We both
know ''Jesus Christ'' will.)
Stay Strong in the Faith & Knowledge you
have Learned from God. For it is You that
Leads us and it is You that is Highly
Respected on R&S.
2007-12-16 20:11:13 · answer #4 · answered by David 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ooooh! You are so right! It is creepy what people (including me) sometimes use as affirmations!
Stopping runnaway thought is hard for me (I'm a Gemini, I LOVE thinking, and I have food intolerance as well, eg. a bit like ADHD)...
I have to keep reminding myself that God is in a still small voice, and if my mind is too busy with my own thoughts, how will I commune with him, or receive his inspiration?
I try to stay more in the moment. I try to stop fantasizing about the future. I delete the running commentary that my "inner judge" likes to make... eg. the thoughts of self-exculpation, or of self-blame, or of comparison between myself and other people... None of that matters in the least.
I allow myself to simply be. There is no reason to excuse myself or blame myself. I trust in God's love... and so my mind becomes still, and He can speak to me.
⥠Namaste Sunman â¥
2007-12-18 06:48:10 · answer #5 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
"It's still a hell of a miracle."
A somewhat intellectually flamboyant acquaintance of mine once asked, "What if there is a Creator God ... and He's malevolent! What about that?"
What came up and out of me was the above, "It's still a hell of a miracle." It made him kind of quiet. Me, too.
And I offer it here. Runaway thoughts ... that they can occur at all ... where do they emerge from, what makes them possible, how does a thought "do" being a thought ... a hell of a miracle ...
In other words, I'd look to stop it by putting my arm around it and being amazed by it.
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2007-12-16 15:47:39 · answer #6 · answered by bodhidave 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying you seem to be obsessed with negative thinking? If the world DID end tomorrow.. so? It ends. No one could do anything about it anyway.. so stay busy up the the last minute doing nice things for others. Love your neighbor and be merciful.
2007-12-16 15:16:08 · answer #7 · answered by BelieverinGod 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have not been following so perhaps I'm not qualified to reply but I will for the sake of others who may become disheartened. Focus on the positive. In order to see a brighter light, you have to open your eyes.
2007-12-18 01:59:57 · answer #8 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Make a choice. Decide. We are the thinker in our mind. Decide to let it pass,away. Ask to be filled only with loving energy. Ask to be exposed only to loving people, thoughts, words, energies, entities through all realms and all space and time. Say "it is cleared and I am healed, and as I pronounce it, it is done, so be it".
2007-12-17 11:06:04 · answer #9 · answered by Lyra 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A praying mantis basks in the sun,
its life forshortened by a heavy footstep.
Revenge is only a fleeting thought in its path towards enlightenment.
2007-12-16 15:29:14 · answer #10 · answered by apho 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋