Thinking is the root cause of all su9ering.
There is no other answer to why we feel negative emotions other than that it is from our own thinking. Everything can be traced back to our thinking, which makes problem solving very simple. Once we realize that our thinking is causing how we feel, we can let go of it and we return to our natural state of peace, love, and joy. When we let go of our thinking, it creates space for us to be able to allow all positive emotions we want to feel to surface from within us. We don’t live in reality, we live in a PERCEPTION of reality, which is created by our own thinking.
Thinking is NOT an e9ect of our experiences, but the CAUSE of it.
The thoughts in our minds are not facts.
Our thinking only has control over us if we believe it. Let go of the belief in the thought to let go of the su9ering.
Our feelings are direct feedback and an innate internal guidance system to let us know whether we are lacking understanding or have absolute clarity of truth. Feelings are an invitation to deepen our understanding of the truth. We are in flow when we are not thinking.
There is no separation between us and the Universe and all of life when we are not thinking. It is only when we think that we cut ourselves from Source and feel separate from all things (the birth of the ego).
Thinking and thoughts are two di9erent things. Thinking is a verb and requires our manual e9ort, which causes su9ering. Thoughts are nouns, which do not come from us and are divine downloads from the Universe.
We think because it is a biological response to survive. Our minds think only because it is trying to keep us alive, but it does not help us thrive. It is only concerned with our safety and survival, but not our fulfillment. Thinking holds us back from our Highest Selves by causing negative feelings within us that prevent us from following our true callings.
Our minds are limited to our personal experiences. If you want to receive insights, creativity, and knowledge beyond the capabilities of your current self, simply choose to listen to Infinite Intelligence rather than your finite mind. This infinite source of truth is available to all people at all times if we allow it to be.
Universal Intelligence/Mind is the energy that is everything in this universe. It is the source of where everything comes from that is before form and we are made up of it. This energy has a feeling, which is the feeling is love, peace, joy, connection, and well-being. This is what we fall back into when we let go of our thinking and it is our natural state.
Since we are all always connected to the same source of Infinite Intelligence, once we let go of our thinking, we access new thoughts, ideas, and insights, even if we have never experienced them before. The more we trust our intuition and this Infinite Intelligence, the more we will receive these insights that are always available to us.
Peace, love, joy, and all positive emotions are our default states as humans. It is only when we begin thinking, then we get taken out of that natural state. Once we let go of our
thinking, we fall back into our natural state of being and experience all positive feelings e9ortlessly.
We are ever only one thought or one insight away from expanding our consciousness and experiencing a deeper feeling of love at all times, which comes from a state of non- thinking.
Clarity is the nature of our minds and our default state. It is only when we get caught up in our thinking that things do not seem so. If we let go of our thinking, we return to our “factory default” setting of peace, love, joy, and a quiet mind.
There is nothing inherently wrong with anyone or anything in the Universe, but our thinking will make us think so. You do not have to be fixed because you are not broken. There is only something for you to realize and remember, which is that thinking is the root cause of our su9ering. You do not have to do anything about your thinking. All you have to do is shift your understanding of thinking and you will fall back into the truth of who you are, which is beyond your thinking, your body, and everything you think you know. As soon as you let go of your thinking, you become one with Infinite Intelligence, allowing you to feel a never-ending abundance of love, peace, and joy that is always available to you because that is your true nature.
When you make space for Infinite Intelligence, it makes space for you. The more you trust it, the more it trusts you. There’s never an end to how much space you can make for it. When you prioritize making space in your life and in your mind for Infinite Intelligence to come through, your life will change.
A Guide to Stop Thinking
Eliminate things that may make your more prone to thinking (or things that cause you to be in a fight or flight mode).
Eliminate as many things and actions in your life that do not inspire you or excite you.
Create an environment that helps put you into a nonthinking state.
Create a morning activation ritual to help you start your day in a peaceful, non-thinking state. Use this space to receive insights from Infinite Intelligence to help you navigate through life.
Create space in your day to be able to decompress, relax, and return to a state of non-thinking. Write out things you can do during your day that can help you achieve this. It could be journaling, taking a walk, meditating, playing with your pets, taking a nap, doing yoga, or anything relaxing.
Framework For How To Stop Thinking
- Realize thinking is the root of all su9ering (understand the true nature of thinking).
Realize if you’re su9ering, you’re thinking.
Realize the di9erence between thinking and thoughts.
Don’t try to find the root cause, thinking is the root cause.
- Create a space for persisting negative thinking
Allow them to be there and acknowledge them for what they are.
Understand that you are the sacred space that holds these feelings, but that you are not the feelings themselves.
Don’t be afraid to be alone with your thinking and have the courage to allow it to be in your consciousness.
Welcome it in and see that the thinking just wants to be acknowledged.
Realize that negative thoughts only have power over you if you believe in them.
Once you allow them to exist in your consciousness and don’t resist the feelings, you can then look beyond the feelings to see the truth behind it all.
Every feeling contains a seed of truth in it which will help you deepen your awareness and allow you to experience life more fully.
- Once you acknowledge the thinking, allow it all to pass and allow yourself to just be without attaching to anything. Naturally positive emotions will arise, like peace, love, and joy. Allow yourself to enjoy these emotions as they come up. If the negative feeling still persists, then go back to step one and repeat until you’ve been able to find some peace.
Potential Obstacles
- Not wanting to let go of thinking because you think that it is what got you to where you are.
While this is true, you must realize that what got you here, won’t get you there. If you want to break the vicious cycle of su9ering and the same self- destructive patterns repeating in your life, you’ll have to do something di9erent. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a di9erent result. The real question is, do you want to be happy or not? If you understand that thinking is the root cause of all of your su9ering and do not want to be unhappy any longer, then you will be able to make the leap of faith into non-thinking.
- Not enough faith
In order for there to even be a possibility that there could be a life filled with joy, peace, and love every single day, you must first believe that it is possible. One must also believe that they are part of something much
bigger that is the life force that has been taking care of them this whole time (the Universe/God). Having faith in something much bigger than we are without being able to fully comprehend it with our finite minds is the only way we can surrender our manual e9orts and experience total peace in our lives versus worrying about everything.
- Fear
Fear is a completely normal emotion when it comes to trusting in the Universe, which is also the unknown. Fear is an indication that something is very important to us, so this is a great sign. Everything we could ever want is on the other side of fear and deep down you know this is the truth. The test we must pass in order to obtain all we desire is fear itself.
The way out is through and going deep within yourself to see and know that you will be okay no matter what. That this fear cannot and will not kill you, but if you do not confront it, it will take the life of all your dreams instead. Thinking is the root cause of fear. If you don’t think, there is no fear. Follow the framework for how to stop thinking to overcome the fear and experience what life can be like without limits.
How You Will Know If You’re In A State Of Non-Thinking
If you’re not thinking, you will experience complete peace, love, joy, passion, excitement, inspiration, bliss, and any positive emotion your mind can conceive. You’ll feel like you’re in flow. You’ll lose sense of time, space, and even yourself. You’ll feel “one” with life. This is how you know you are not thinking.
Reflection Prompts
On a scale of 1-10, how much did you think today? (1 being low, 10 being high)
What percentage of your day was spent in fight or flight mode? What percentage was spent in a relaxed, calm state?
A Guide To Creating A Non-Thinking Environment
Your environment will either induce and support the state of nonthinking or it can make you more prone to thinking.
Although we create our reality from the inside-out, many times we are still a9ected by our environment. Since we are spiritual beings living in a physical world, we cannot completely detach from this 3D world just yet, so it is important to create an environment that is conducive to non-thinking. In order to be productive, the best way to do it is to eliminate distractions instead of trying to do more.
Similarly, if we eliminate many of the things that we know that can trigger us to relapse back into thinking, then we will be able to stay in a peaceful state of non-thinking much easier. Remember that changing your environment and not yourself will not work long term. A delicate blend of both will be what you need to create a beautiful life you love to live.
Framework For Removing Thinking Triggers
- Perform an audit to see what things can make you more susceptible to thinking and make a list.
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Write down everything that comes to mind. What can help is to tap into your intuition and feel energetically in your body if this specific thing in your environment will help or hurt you. If you are in a calm, relaxed state, the answer will be obvious.
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If you’re having trouble with coming up with things, try to remember what things tend to put you into a fight or flight mode, make you anxious or overthink. Anything that puts you into a survival state will not help you maintain a state of non-thinking.
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If it is still difficult to think of things, you can keep a journal as you go about your week and write down anything that seems to put you into a fight or flight mode. You’ll have a nice list by the end of the week.
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Organize all of the things you wrote down into categories
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Here are some examples of categories
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Physical Health
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What things that when you put into your body can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)? Foods, stimulants, drinks, etc.
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Physical Environment
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What things in your physical environment can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)?
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Digital Environment
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What things on your phone, computer, or TV can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)?
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Digital Consumption
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What media/content when you consume can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)?
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- After you categorize everything, reorganize your list, and begin ranking the items from things that a9ect you most to the least.
- Choose the top items from each list and create an action item on what you plan to do in order to remove it from your environment. Choose only what would be manageable and possible for you to remove without making you prone to even more stress (this would defeat the purpose of the exercise). Start small and after you’ve become acquainted with the changes and see the impact, you can begin eliminating other things.
Framework For Creating A Non-Thinking Environment
Write down all of the things that help you get into a relaxed, peaceful, non-thinking state. These can be things like exercise, meditation, having a certain genre of music on, location, etc.
Organize the items on your list into categories.
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Physical Health
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What things that you put into your body help you to feel healthy, sustainably energized, and peaceful?
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Physical Environment
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What things in your physical environment help you feel aligned with your divine self?
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Digital Environment
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What things on your phone, computer, or TV help you to feel aligned with your divine self?
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Digital Consumption
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What media/content you consume helps you to feel aligned with your highest self?
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- Rank the items in each category from most impactful to least impactful to helping you get into and remain in a nonthinking state.
- Choose the top items from each list and create an action item on how you will incorporate it into your life. Try not to do too much at once because it can be overwhelming. Do what is manageable for you for now and you can add on more later after you’ve become acquainted with it.
- Create an activation ritual or morning routine that helps you get into a state of non-thinking and helps you align with your highest self. Plan out what the ideal morning routine looks like that you can do now. Start small and don’t
overwhelm yourself. Ensure that there is time for you to create space (like meditation, yoga, or any similar spiritual practice to help you tune into Infinite Intelligence).
- How you start your day will create momentum for how your day will go. If you start your day o9 by checking your phone, emails and what you have to do, you’re starting your day in a stressful, fight or flight mode of thinking, which will carry on for the rest of the day.
- If you begin your day in a peaceful state and perform a routine that gets you into a state of non-thinking, you will carry that momentum throughout your day and it will be much harder to get caught up in external things that could make you relapse back into thinking and stress. This is why all the greatest spiritual masters have morning rituals or routines of some kind.
Framework For Implementing Non-Thinking Into Your Work
- Create a list of things you do in your work that drain you of energy — things that you don’t like doing or just feel overall heavy in your work.
- Create a list of things you do in your work that gives you energy — things that make you feel inspired, energetic, alive, and light.
- Go back through your whole list and give a rating for each activity that you do on a scale from 1-10 with 1 being extremely energy draining and 10 making you feel the most alive and inspired when you do it.
- Each week, eliminate 1-3 things from your energy draining list and do more of the activities that are a 9 and 10 on your list.
- The goal is to get to a point where you’re spending 80% of your work time doing things that are a 9 and 10 on your list.
A Guide To Overcoming Destructive Habits/Behaviors
As you create more space and begin not thinking as much, you’ll quickly discover that you will become aware of a lot of negative, destructive habits you may have that keep making you more prone to su9ering. This is completely okay. Do not beat yourself up about it because it will only make things worse. Here is a more detailed guide below that will help you break any destructive habits:
- Become aware of what behavior you want to change and confirm that it is something you genuinely want to alter. Understand that if you want to change and stop the vicious cycle of su9ering, you’re going to have to change and let go of the beliefs you’re holding onto that are creating the su9ering. If you don’t want to change it, there’s no point in continuing forward, but if you do want to change, then let’s begin the process of letting go.
- Write down in exact, meticulous detail what happens with this behavior (how many times it happens, when it happens, etc.) Don’t spare any details.
- What are you feeling in the moment right before you begin the behavior? What’s the feeling that triggers the behavior? Be honest with yourself.
- What specific thinking patterns are going on? What are you saying to yourself in the moment when this happens? Describe it in exact detail.
- What beliefs do you have around this habit? What conclusions have you made which compel you to feel like you HAVE to perform this behavior/action?
- How do you feel when you believe that thinking?
- What do you believe will happen if you don’t perform the behavior? In other words, what consequences do you believe will happen if you don’t perform the action?
- Is it ABSOLUTELY 100% true that it will happen if you don’t perform the behavior?
- Can you see how destructive this thinking is and how much it causes you to su9er?
- Are you willing to let this thinking and behavior go now?
- Consult your inner wisdom and highest self. What is it trying to tell you? What is it trying to help you learn? How is it telling you to restore balance into your life? How is it telling you to grow right now? Create space and wait for an insight from Infinite Intelligence as to why you actually want to change.
- When you receive the insight, allow yourself to fully feel the freedom, peace, and joy. Feel the weight lifted o9 your shoulders. You’ll know you did it right if you physically and energetically feel lighter and if you don’t see the action/habit in the same way anymore. Fully immerse yourself in the feeling of deep gratitude and just allow yourself to be.
- Write down any insight you’ve had and journal your experience you just had so you can have a documentation of these miracles in your life.
What To Do If The Feeling Comes Back Up Again
Follow this guide again until you have an insight or breakthrough that completely changes the way you look at life.