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Originally Posted by annah  I cannot control my incessively invading thoughts - they seem to multiply upon replacing negative one's w/positive and/or loving one's, however, I am having such a difficult time quieting my mind. Any advice and thx in advance. |
Why do you want to quiet the mind? I think sometimes it's not a matter of trying to get to a point where you are not having incessive invading thoughts. It's more about letting the thoughts run and not following them or adding to them. I think trying to not have thoughts is a tough way to quiet the mind.
Thoughts come from habitual patterns in the brain and also from your conscious awareness part of you. Usually most thoughts are habitual and trained by you, the awareness part of you. So the approach I'd suggest and use is to use your awareness part to look at or watch the habitual thoughts but not to keep reinforcing those habitual parts. It doesn't quiet the mind right away but you are exercising the ablilty to use your awareness and detach from following habits and from reinforcing the invading thoughts. Also it is a practice of noticing what is the aware part of you versus the habits of the mind.
The habitual thoughts are mostly good or were at least useful at one time when we started training our brain to deal with something. We choose to train our brains in a certain way for a reason (that reason may not exist anymore but the brain will keep doing habits for you) It would be hard to live in 3d without the computer part of our brain. However, most of us are raised through school and society to use the mind more than spirit. That spiritual part of us is not the mind, but can effect our thoughts - usually only our awareness thoughts. In other words we can't expect spirit to come into the habitual thoughts that run because we trained our brain to function in a certain way over and over. But we can let spirit come into the thoughts that we do have awareness of.