What Are You Feeding Yourself?

Indeed, we are not our thoughts. But from where do our thoughts originate? Why do we believe what we believe? What do we truly  believe? What feels false, even though we may have long ascribed to those premises and beliefs? What resonates to the core of us? We can't see our thoughts - where do they even exist? These are all good questions to ask ourselves. Because our lives truly begin in our thoughts - especially in those thoughts we repeat to ourselves enough to become our beliefs. And by changing our thoughts, we can change our experiences. So how do we do that? A good way to start is just to take a look at what we're thinking, to question. Is this something I want to remain a part of me? How does this feel in my body? Where do I feel this in my body? How does this feel in my emotional body? Every thought is actually an opportunity to make a choice for whether we want to hang onto it or not. Many thoughts - up to as much as 97% of them - are just regurgitations of the th...

You are not your thoughts.      Thoughts arise, live for a time, and subside, (and are replaced by other thoughts or actions) You are not your emotions.      Emotions arise, live for a time, and subside. They are not sustainable long-term. You are not your body.      The body arises (is conceived, incubated, born) lives for a time (grows, changes, ages) and subsides (dies). You are eternal. Immortal. Pure consciousness at the level of being. Connected to all that is. You are a Spiritual Being having a physical experience. All too often, we mistake our physical experience as the sum total total of our being, of our essence. We get lost & bogged down in the Avatar we've created to interact in the physical world, forgetting that we chose to play this game, forgetting that we are still connected to the "outside". Outside is the realm outside this Matrix, where our Higher Self has a bird's eye view of all the goings on, all the pote...