Does the Mind Tell the Truth?

Years ago I decided to go to a Psychotherapist because I wanted to know the answer to the question, ”Is what I think early in the morning…the truth?”  Should I listen to those thoughts?

She looked at me and had no answer to that question. I found that a bit strange. Surely, I was not the only person to ask that question, and in all of her training you would believe that they would have an answer for that question.

But, the answer she gave wasn’t an answer, but another question. Which didn’t really help me at all, because I wanted to know if thoughts that come before conscious thoughts in the morning are what you really think is true?

I hope that it isn’t true. If it were, I probably wouldn’t be alive today.

In fact, rarely does my mind say anything good to me in the morning when I wake up. That makes me wonder about what was I given in my past to cause my mind to start talking me down every morning. Why so negative?

It takes half a day and usually interaction with others to get me out of those downward spiraling thoughts.

This morning these are the thoughts I had…

• You don’t know anything.
• You don’t know how to do anything.
• Nobody is going to listen to you much less pay to listen to you.
• You don’t know enough to be successful in any business.
• Go get a job, earn a flat wage and let your employer’s accountants take care of your accounting so all you have to do is hand in your W2 form to your tax guy and send in your tax returns, pay your bills and thats it.
• Everyone else thinks they know it all, at least they have that, you don’t have that kind of confidence.
• Why would anyone listen to someone who has failed as much as you have?

These are called the ”Forces of Evil”.  The disempowering thoughts in your head, and they sound true, because we have heard those words spoken about others so much, we tend to say them to ourselves.

Who is laughing now?  The Devil gets a real kick out of it! The Devil enjoys your misery, he is wrapping his fingers around your throat and choking you with every negative thought that he sends to you via your mind.

Thoughts are neither true or false, but that you make them so.

Even if the negative thoughts were true, does that help you at all? Really, does a negative belief about yourself serve you, even if it is true? 

Well, maybe, if it motivates you to change, but it doesn’t. It is so crippling that it takes away all of the power you ever had just to fight those thoughts. You cannot fight them, you have to replace them, and that may take years.

You really have to take a close look at the people you surround yourself with, because it is highly likely that your thoughts come from influences you grew up with and you surrounded yourself with since. Even now, the disempowering comments that come from friends and family strike at me to the core and they aren’t even aware of it.

It isn’t me they attack, it is others, but I place myself in the place of others and figure if they are saying that about someone else, then no telling what they are saying about me.

Ultimately, I don’t believe anyone who thinks I am good at anything. I think they are lying to me. But, if someone said something bad to me, that I would believe, because it coincides with who I think I am.

There is only one barrier in life, that is myself, yourself.

You can blame things on anyone or anything outside of yourself, but that won’t improve anything. In fact, it isn’t about blame, or judgement. It is about sorting.

Sort out the bad disempowering thoughts, and keep the good thoughts, and keep consciously feeding yourself good thoughts. If people around you are cynical and negative about the world, you must get away from them, those thoughts seep into your mind and kill all possibility of hope. Steer away from negative situations and places that take you into trouble. You must know which battles are worth fighting and which situations it is best to leave. Trust it.

If everyone on earth would steer away from trouble, then we would have a lot less of it. Certainly, if someone pushes you, you must push back. But don’t go looking for it.