… Is Your Nafs-Thought.
In the previous article, I alluded to the source of all your spiritual struggles –Â the thing that stops you realising how perfect you are, and causes a load of negative thinking patterns that hurt you and sometimes cause you to act in ways that hurt yourself and others.
The source of all your spiritual struggles is a part of you I call your âego-thoughtâ.
The moment you see your âego-thoughtâ for what it is, you can free yourself from a lot of the worries and intense, damaging thoughts that may have been paralysing your spiritual growth, and sabotaging your attempt to achieve personal and professional goals up to now.
So, what exactly is âego-thoughtâ?
âEgo-thoughtâ is any thought based on the misunderstanding that your feelings come from something other than thinking in the moment.
The more deeply and clearly you understand the above sentence, the higher your level of consciousness.
We all logically and intellectually know that our feelings come from inside of us â from our mind, and yet every single time something occurs to you as a âproblemâ I can guarantee you, youâve lost sight of the fact that nothing outside of you can make you âfeelâ anything.
Before we go deeper into the definition of âego-thoughtâ, in order to help you understand it more clearly, letâs explore the nature of âthoughtâ itself.
What is Thought?
âThoughtâ is your self-generated perception of reality. Here are some examples of things you experience all the time, that come from your thought:
- everything you are experiencing of the outside world right now is actually being generated by your mind thanks to the power of âthoughtâ. In other words, itâs your self-generated perception of reality. Your perception and your experience doesnât actually come from the outside world â it is generated inside of your own mind.
- if you close your eyes and try to remember what the room around you looks like, that image in your mindâs eye, is made from your âthoughtâ
- if you remember anything that has ever happened to you in the past, mundane or emotional, that memory is âthoughtâ
- if you imagine something happening in the future, that âfuture-memoryâ or âfantasyâ is your âthoughtâ
- when you were a child and you used to play with your imaginary friends, those friends were a figment of your thought
- everything you imagine, past, present or future, is your thought.
To really âgetâ how much of your current reality is influenced by your âthoughtâ, requires a couple of movie references. Have you ever seen âInceptionâ, the movie by Christopher Nolan starring Leonardo Di Caprio? If not, go and watch it. It was probably the best movie of 2010.
In the movie, Di Caprio explains how dreams work. When youâre in a dream, you donât realise youâre in a dream. Your mind is so powerful that it creates your experience of reality, and then instantly lets you experience the reality it just created, so quickly, that you donât even realise you just created it. The truly fascinating thing is that this is exactly how it works when you are wide awake, too.
Pause. Take a deep breath, and read the paragraph above again.
You are not experiencing reality. You are actually experiencing your mind-generated perception of reality. You are experiencing your âthoughtâ. 100% of your experience of everything thatâs around you right now is NOT coming from outside of you – it is being generated from within your own mind.
Every time I see the truth of this, it blows my mind.
Think of it like this:
Have you ever heard of âVirtual Realityâ? Itâs like the ultimate video game that hasnât been invented yet. If youâve ever seen: âThe Matrixâ, or âTotal Recallâ, or âThe Lawnmower Manâ or any episode of âStar Trek: The Next Generationâ involving the âHolodeckâ, you know exactly what I mean. Thereâs some kind of super-advanced machine that basically generates a game world.
You plug yourself into the machine, or wear the mask, or step into the room, and you enter the âVirtual Reality Worldâ. This world seems completely real to you in every way, but itâs just a fantasy generated by a machine that is somehow plugged into your brain. In reality, you are sitting in a chair or standing in a small room.
Well, hereâs the thing:
You are in the Matrix. The difference is that youâre not sitting in a chair, plugged into a machine operated by an alien-like race of machines (as far as Iâm aware!). However, you are in the Matrix that is generated by your own mind. Your mind is a virtual reality machine. It uses the power of âthoughtâ to generate the perception of reality that you are experiencing right now as âreal lifeâ.
You do not experience reality. You experience your âthoughtâ â your mind-generated perception of reality. Your mind generates that perception based on the information that comes to it through your 5 senses.
Iâm not saying the outside world does not exist. I am saying that 100% of your experience of the outside world is generated from within your mind. Of course, it seems very real to you when you are caught up in it. But itâs not real. Itâs just âthoughtâ.
So, how come your âthoughtsâ seem so real?
Because your mind is the best virtual reality machine in the world, with the best special effects department in the world, that works to generate the thought that you are experiencing right now. Thatâs why it often seems as though you are experiencing reality. But you are not. You are only ever experiencing your âmind-generated perception of realityâ (your own âthoughtâ).
Your thought isnât ârealâ. But, it does seem completely real to you, most of the time. In reality, itâs literally just the âstuff dreams are made ofâ.
Like I mentioned at the beginning of this article: the source of all your spiritual struggles is your âego-thoughtâ â any thoughts based on the assumption that your feelings come from something other than your thinking in the moment.
The moment you see through this myth is the moment of your spiritual awakening.
Every time you become aware of the distinction between your feelings coming from outside of you (the illusion) versus your feelings coming from inside of your mind (the truth), a lot of wonderful things start happening for you, effortlessly.
For example, you willâŚ
- instantly feel a huge amount of relief as you clearly see that your biggest worries are 100% the result of your own internally generated thinking, not an external reality
- experience an innate sense of well-being and peace â thatâs what you experience when you know your feelings are self-generated and no-one and no-thing can hurt you â only your own thought can
- have instant clarity on problems that used to freak you out
- be completely unaffected by imaginary fears that used to take up a lot of your attention
- become instantly âpresentâ, and fully aware of this moment, rather than reminiscing about the past or fantasizing about the future
- become enormously productive and effective at whatever you feel like working on (which will probably be stuff you love doing and believe in)
- instantly un-do years of conditioning and limiting beliefs
- access an enormous amount of spiritual energy that you can use to fulfil your heartâs truest desires
- start to see the world more clearly, and more accurately, and notice its beauty a lot more.
- live more in alignment with the Truth of how the world actually works, rather than the fantasy of how you think it âshouldâ work.
- love yourself and your life a lot more for no reason.
So, if seeing through the illusion of your ego-thought is the only thing getting in the way from you experiencing all of this, it begs the questionâŚ
How do you get into the above states of clarity, presence, well-being, inner-peace and effortless productivity and stay there all of the time?
The great news is⌠itâs a LOT easier than you might think.
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