MANAGING YOUR THOUGHT LIFE

Happy is the man who is able to manage his thought life. Your thoughts are closely related to the state of your ego. Your ego is self centred and only thinks of itself. It thinks of how to please itself. It does not care about others. Pleasing oneself is all it can think of. Once you realise this, you are open to change. Your ego will dominate your thought life till it is checked. This is what it means to die to self. You are imprisoned by your ego. It is wired to pleasure itself. When you distance yourself from your thoughts you see a wider picture. Just like operating the lens on a camera, you widen the area of focus. This enables you to think more broadly. More opportunities arise and this means ability to move more freely. Most people are conditioned by their own thoughts which go back to childhood programming. In their unguarded moments regression takes place and unfulfilled needs begin to take place. Emotions that you kept repressed arise and take control of you. This is what happens when external events trigger those childhood memories and cause one to regress and become infantile in one’s reactions. Exercising presence, that is, to distance yourself from those selfish thoughts enables you to cut yourself off from those feelings. You can then access positive feelings from the Christ in you rather then from your ego.