Do you have a monkey mind? Many people do have a monkey mind and it causes them considerable distress and varying degrees of dysfunction in their day to day lives. The question I sometimes ask a client during a hypnotherapy session is, "who is in charge of what you think or dwell upon during the day and who is in charge of how you feel emotionally?" The average response I get is a shrug of the shoulders and an "I don't know." I then go on to explain that the way our brain works is that we are designed to have a constant barrage of thoughts that come up, one thought after another and the thought that has emotion attached to it is the one that we will then give some time and attention to or it can be said that we will "entertain" that thought. Then if we entertain that thought and feeling we will automatically attract other similar thoughts and feelings, giving us a choice of a wider array of similar vein thoughts with emotions. If these thoughts with emotions are uplifting and empowering then great for us, but if these thoughts are negative and toxic then we become sad, mad, fearful and anxious. We are always reflecting on our past good or bad memories or we are anticipating future best and or worst case scenarios. Not very often are we in a state of peace and appreciation for the now moment.
We are meant to be the "keepers" at our gate, we are the "bouncer" for the thoughts that constantly flood our consciousness. But very few people realize they are supposed to be the "channel changer" for these thoughts and attached feelings that pop into their mind, every second of every minute. If you were watching tv with channel changer in hand, you would not sit and watch/entertain the garbage that exists on every channel, you would surf right by the shows that did not fit your criteria for interest, you would hopefully just sit to watch/entertain those shows that positively entertain and motivate you and you might just pass on the horror films, the totally stupid reality shows and others. If you have a child you want your kid to watch only shows that uplift, educate and positively entertain. Well, guess what, we have a built in channel changer within us and that is our decision and choice to think a better feeling thought any time we find ourselves attempting to entertain a garbage thought/emotion. When a negative thought comes onto your television screen of awareness, simply stop it in its tracks, put your hand up in front of you, in the screen of your mind and say STOP, I choose to think a better feeling thought. If you can then decide to immediately think the inverse of that negative thought and then choose to entertain or spend time with the new more empowering inverse thought, you will have initiated a process of choice and control for yourself. Realize that you may be an individual who has chronic habitual negative thinking and so this process may be difficult at first and will take some time and effort to begin to shift you into the habit of stopping those thoughts and error correcting them.
You are the Keeper/bouncer of your thoughts and feelings, you are the captain of your ship, you are designed to be in control of what you feel and experience in your mind. When you are not in control of what you think and feel it can be said you have a "monkey mind." A monkey mind pretty much says it all and if you want to begin the process of putting that monkey back in the cage then start today to read my many blogs at www.8thStreetChiro.blogspot.com, read the blogs having to do with the DEEP Release Clear Mind Process or blogs having to do with MIND. Until next time, Dr. Mark Doyle.
We are meant to be the "keepers" at our gate, we are the "bouncer" for the thoughts that constantly flood our consciousness. But very few people realize they are supposed to be the "channel changer" for these thoughts and attached feelings that pop into their mind, every second of every minute. If you were watching tv with channel changer in hand, you would not sit and watch/entertain the garbage that exists on every channel, you would surf right by the shows that did not fit your criteria for interest, you would hopefully just sit to watch/entertain those shows that positively entertain and motivate you and you might just pass on the horror films, the totally stupid reality shows and others. If you have a child you want your kid to watch only shows that uplift, educate and positively entertain. Well, guess what, we have a built in channel changer within us and that is our decision and choice to think a better feeling thought any time we find ourselves attempting to entertain a garbage thought/emotion. When a negative thought comes onto your television screen of awareness, simply stop it in its tracks, put your hand up in front of you, in the screen of your mind and say STOP, I choose to think a better feeling thought. If you can then decide to immediately think the inverse of that negative thought and then choose to entertain or spend time with the new more empowering inverse thought, you will have initiated a process of choice and control for yourself. Realize that you may be an individual who has chronic habitual negative thinking and so this process may be difficult at first and will take some time and effort to begin to shift you into the habit of stopping those thoughts and error correcting them.
You are the Keeper/bouncer of your thoughts and feelings, you are the captain of your ship, you are designed to be in control of what you feel and experience in your mind. When you are not in control of what you think and feel it can be said you have a "monkey mind." A monkey mind pretty much says it all and if you want to begin the process of putting that monkey back in the cage then start today to read my many blogs at www.8thStreetChiro.blogspot.com, read the blogs having to do with the DEEP Release Clear Mind Process or blogs having to do with MIND. Until next time, Dr. Mark Doyle.
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