Is your thinking, stinking? (Part 2) by Amir Zoghi
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Changing your thinking will only have a temporary outcome. Your thoughts are the expressions of your suppressions. Everything that you are either holding onto or that you disown gets suppressed within your unconscious. We call this emotional baggage. The emotional baggage that is then stored within our body starts to express itself through your thoughts. This is because what ever ultimately gets suppressed will need to be expressed. Your emotional baggage will continue to express its smell through your thinking, just like how the garbage in your kitchen bin will start smelling if it’s been left there for too long.You can try and change your thoughts but that’s just like putting a temporary bandaid on a deep cut that needs to be stitched up. Similarly, you can try and change the stench from your kitchen bin by spraying your kitchen with air freshener or you can just take the garbage out from your house. Don’t go and try to change your thoughts, instead let go of all that you think you need, all that you have stored in your body as emotional garbage.
All your limiting thoughts, beliefs and perceptions are only the reflections of your own emotional baggage or for better terms; your emotional garbage. Before I can talk about how you can release your emotional garbage lets firstly determine what your emotional garbage is. Your emotional garbage is all that you think you need in your order to be happy, it’s all that you are holding onto so tightly because you think it will keep you secure. When you don’t get what you think you need in order to be happy you suffer and that suffering is adding more garbage to your emotional garbage. Certain traumatic experiences in our lives are also adding the greatest weight to the emotional garbage. In Summary our emotional garbage is filled with all the emotions from past traumas or certain things we think we need in the future to make us happy and feel secure.
These strong emotional holds on past memories and future ideals are determining your emotional garbage which is influencing your thoughts, perceptions, beliefs and ultimately your experiences. These are all different judgements. Your emotional garbage is simply stored judgments, both positive and negative judgments. This is not a good or bad thing, it’s not a better or worst thing; as good, bad, better or worst are all again different types of judgments.
Here is the thing; you can’t try and get rid of your emotional garbage so that your life will then be better. Better is again another judgment. You can however, release your emotional garbage by embracing it. Who you are as a “Whole Being” is both the positive and negative judgments. What you are here to do is to become whole again while living in a limited perceptive of yourself that you call a human. To do that you need to embrace all aspects of yourself, both positive and negative.
What most people are doing is judging themselves, their thoughts, their emotions and every disowned part of themselves that see in others. After they have finished judging themselves or playing the victim in their life, they decide to do something about it. They decided to change their life by fixing, improving or getting rid of something internally or externally from their lives. The thing is though; when you are looking to change your life out of judgment for a better life or to avoid a worst life, you are actually adding to your emotional garbage. You are not releasing your emotional garbage as you are resiting it.
I’m not saying don’t go and improve, change and grow in your life. I’m only saying don’t go and do that because you are resisting something internally. People justify spending a lot of time and energy fixing something or someone outside of themselves instead of realising that what they are really trying to fix is within themselves. As you become more aware of whom you are as a “Whole Being” you will also realise that there was never anything to fix in the first place. The fixing is the game you play until you awaken to who you truly are.
“It’s only your ego that is either building yourself up or beating yourself up. Who you truly are in this very moment is naturally perfect and you shall experience this perfection when you stop trying to be perfect.”
If your emotional garbage is your judgments then what would be the opposite of judgements? ACCEPTENCE, not only acceptance of what you have a preference for but 100% Acceptance for what is. This means you embrace both your negative and positive judgments. You are not trying to change anything, you are embracing everything. A positive or negative thought and experience will no longer be better, worst, right or wrong, it will just be different. It will be a different experience of the same thing.
If you and a friend went to a competitive sporting game and you were emotionally sold on the blue team and your friend on the red team. What would happen if the blue team won? What would happen if the red team won? You would have a different experience of the same thing. What will determine your experience would be how strong your judgment or preference was for your team to win. If your team lost, you would be sad and your friend would be happy. If your team won, you would be happy and your friend would be sad. The event or outcome is neutral; it’s only your judgments or preference that determines the event or outcome as a positive or negative experience.
When you have acceptance for what is you will become free to be naturally who you are. When you become free to be naturally who you are, you will become authentic to your life and awaken to what it means to be alive. This is not an emotionless state, it is a state filled with feeling. Feeling of love, joy and completeness right here, right now.
To be continued……
Stay tuned next weeks for Part 3 of “Is your thinking stinking”. In Part 3
I will talk about ACCEPTENCE and how you can attain it in your life.Click here to read part 1 of “Is your thinking stinking?”
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Much Love,Amir Zoghi
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