One of my favorite books is Eckhart Tolle’s, A New
Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
I pick it up most mornings to read a page or two. I must share what I read this morning.
I pick it up most mornings to read a page or two. I must share what I read this morning.
“The voice in the head tells a story that the body
believes in and reacts to. Those reactions are the emotions. The emotions, in
turn, feed energy back to the thoughts that created the emotion in the first
place. This is the vicious cycle between unexamined thoughts and emotions,
giving rise to emotional thinking and emotional story – making.”
I’ve wasted a lot of time in my past on unexamined
thoughts and even embarrassed myself by how I reacted to them. Unexamined
thoughts are thoughts that surface from past relationships, experiences, or
words expressed from others. Unfortunately, the negative thoughts surface a lot
quicker than the positive ones. Thoughts trigger emotional responses and since women
are emotional beings, we spend a lot of our time in a world of unexamined,
crazy thoughts. One solution that helps me is to think on things that are true,
right, and pure as the book of Philippians states. It’s a battle because those
trash thoughts, as I call them, always come uninvited. Also, living in the
awareness of God makes a huge difference. Not just thoughts about God, but allowing
my total being to be consumed by the presence of God - every step I make and
every move I make. When we’re consumed by His presence, the negative thoughts
are minimal.
Our daughters, nieces, and those we mentor need to know about
emotional thinking or they’ll grow up wasting time creating an emotional world
in their mind that doesn’t exist. Women are beautiful beings, but our emotional
thinking can make us look, act, and react ugly. Think about your thoughts and change
that mental channel when necessary.
