Tag: Thought

A simplified view of how the brain works

Whether you know it or not, your intellect, ability for creative thought and ability to remember long-term memories, all involve a negotiation within your mind.

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Thoughts on Zukav

Gary Zukav was a spiritual teacher and author who wrote about the concept of intention as a creative force in the universe. He believed that every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect.

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Training the Ego – 10 – More Insight on Recurring Negative Thoughts

10 – More insight on Recurring Negative Thoughts There can be many sources of repeating negative thoughts, the type I would like to discuss here are those that seem to have their own life and are brought about by severe breakdowns in a person’s character, often these seem to be another person talking to you …

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Training the Ego 6 – Working with Ego – Full Mindfulness

6. Working with Ego – Full Mindfulness Full Mindfulness As you work towards quieting the mind and increasingly study your thought processes you will find that you automatically start to become fully mindful and you will begin to work with ego in the way I am about to suggest. The Ego presents to you thought …

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Training the Ego 3 – Working with Ego – A mind without thoughts

3. Working with Ego – A mind without thoughts Now that I’ve laid out the basic principles of ego management it is probably wise if I look into the practicalities of working through this process, to give you an idea of some of the activities that you can do as practical exercises to help you …

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Training the Ego 5 – Living in the Now

Training the Ego – 5. Living in the Now An awful lot of people concern themselves far too much with the future or the past. Dwelling on these things often leads to anxiety or self-blame as one looks at past “mistakes” or future challenges in a negative light. Such thoughts are almost always undesirable and …

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Training the Ego 2 – Training your Ego

The first thing to understand is that ego is quite complex and therefore there is a lot to learn. This means that although I will tell you here the basics there are more advanced aspects of ego that might lead you to think that the training is not working. Also some aspects of ego are …

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Training the Ego 4 – Working with Ego – Starting to be Mindful

4. Working with ego – Starting to be Mindful   Mindfulness is the process of anticipating and choosing the right thoughts for you. A great many thoughts are learnt from others unwittingly and some of these can cause us to think or behave in ways which afterwards we decide are undesirable. Some of these thoughts …

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A Truth of Self

A Truth of Self As you work towards understanding self it is not uncommon for you to question the information that you are gleaning from your inspection of within. This is as it should be, you should always question the information you come across even when it comes from within. However, the reason why you …

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Ego and Soul Splits

Ego and Soul Splits During our childhood we have trauma that distresses us, we come to hate that aspect of self that we feel brought about that hurt to us and we seek to get rid of this. Without speaking, ego seeks to hide this aspect of self from us, so that we are no …

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