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We're beginning to openly discuss how to notice, confront and dissolve the interference obsessive thinking appears to create.
When thoughts are imagined to be true our seeming reality develops an easily recognizable pattern. Thus thoughts thinking of themselves appear to become who and what we are. Hearing and debating multiple represent various characters and personalities we create to go with the variety of thoughts marching around and around in our head.
Obsessive thoughts are reactive since they are defensive. Obsessive thoughts see and hear only what is thought to be said and seen not what is actually said or seen. This makes sense since we are bent on magically turning imagination into truth and reality. Thoughts serving thoughts imagine all that is happening is what is thought to be happening not what is actually happening. To think we are a self, or selves, born of thought is to bear and serve these thoughts like a slave, while mastering their creation and maintenance.
Recognizing reactive thoughts is as simple as noticing their disturbing effects. Common side-effects are inner conflict, worry, anxiety, or a sense of feeling disconnected and alone. Thinking our thoughts define us has us think we become these disturbing states of mind rather than concede they are simply manifestations of thought.
Disordered, delusional, thinking, which is central to all addictive tendencies, has us think we are the effect rather than the cause. Feelings accurately assess the effects of our thinking. To think we are the effects automatically turns our response backward to think escape is possible by getting over or feeling better about what we are maintaining that is worse. Dark effects are empty, devoid of the substance of light reality provides.
When we think the thoughts are real the effects seem real. Dream seem real too especially when they develop into night mares. Waking up from our day dream is no different. After and before all what is there to get over when what is wrong is a mirage, only thought to exist?
Seeing effects as mirror images of what we're causing aligns thoughts immediately - since we only imagined they were disjointed as we thought we were maligned. Problems dissipate or disappear once seen clearly. If there is nothing to oppose, resist or defend the imposition of our imposter “self” has no position or point to make so has nothing defend, fight for or maintain.
Our basis is truth and reality so effects are obvious accurate reflections of our thoughts even when we act oblivious to what we are thinking. Look no further than noticing the effects to better see how thought’s capacity is being expressed poorly or well. Well being is the nature of being - well
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