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ethereal · 08-20-2007, 07:39 PM

I like Steve's solution about surrendering to the negative thoughts. Because negative thinking has to be countered at its source, not at the level of thoughts. All thoughts are like bubbles coming out of this formless field of energy, prior to thought coming into form. If you focus intently on where thoughts come from, like in meditation, you'll be able to find it.

Negative thinking is really coming from your LOC with regards to that particular situation or experience. It isn't that you're experiencing fearful thoughts, but you're experiencing fear and that fear then engenders all sorts of fearful thoughts.

The permanent solution, like Steve said, has to come from an elevation in consciousness. You process out the negative emotional energy, by surrendering to it, and just keep running it out. By being willing to face this energy, and even asking to let go more of it, you are coming from an LOC of Courage, Willingness, even Love. But through resistance, you are really coming from the LOC of Fear and Anger. That keeps you stuck in that negative energy, because resistance doesn't have the necessary power to be able to process out the energy, it only makes it worse.

First you realize that negative thinking won't get you anywhere, you're freaking tired of it, and you want to change it. You have to let go of the secret pleasure of indulging in it. We don't like to admit that we derive pleasure from it, but with self-honesty we can see the enormous payoff we get from grief, self-pity, fear, anger, pride. We have to let go wanting to experience those emotions. This unplugs the whole mechanism, rather than refueling and keeping it running.

However, it has built up so much momentum that it takes awhile for it to really stop. You then surrender to and keep processing out that stored up negative energy that is underlying the thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. Once that energy runs out, the negative thoughts automatically stop, since it was that energy that was creating them in the first place. You then automatically see the situation differently and have more positive thoughts about it, since you're now coming from a higher LOC.

08-20-2007, 07:39 PM	#4 (permalink)
ethereal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 586	I like Steve's solution about surrendering to the negative thoughts. Because negative thinking has to be countered at its source, not at the level of thoughts. All thoughts are like bubbles coming out of this formless field of energy, prior to thought coming into form. If you focus intently on where thoughts come from, like in meditation, you'll be able to find it. Negative thinking is really coming from your LOC with regards to that particular situation or experience. It isn't that you're experiencing fearful thoughts, but you're experiencing fear and that fear then engenders all sorts of fearful thoughts. The permanent solution, like Steve said, has to come from an elevation in consciousness. You process out the negative emotional energy, by surrendering to it, and just keep running it out. By being willing to face this energy, and even asking to let go more of it, you are coming from an LOC of Courage, Willingness, even Love. But through resistance, you are really coming from the LOC of Fear and Anger. That keeps you stuck in that negative energy, because resistance doesn't have the necessary power to be able to process out the energy, it only makes it worse. First you realize that negative thinking won't get you anywhere, you're freaking tired of it, and you want to change it. You have to let go of the secret pleasure of indulging in it. We don't like to admit that we derive pleasure from it, but with self-honesty we can see the enormous payoff we get from grief, self-pity, fear, anger, pride. We have to let go wanting to experience those emotions. This unplugs the whole mechanism, rather than refueling and keeping it running. However, it has built up so much momentum that it takes awhile for it to really stop. You then surrender to and keep processing out that stored up negative energy that is underlying the thoughts, not the thoughts themselves. Once that energy runs out, the negative thoughts automatically stop, since it was that energy that was creating them in the first place. You then automatically see the situation differently and have more positive thoughts about it, since you're now coming from a higher LOC.