How to Properly Deal with Your Intrusive Thoughts?
Hello, dear Steemians!
The human mind is a complicated organism that is often not obedient to our core values and ideals. Sometimes you have thoughts that do not represent the best of what you have to offer.
There are even thoughts that intrude your inner comfort zone at every given opportunity to take away your peace and give you destructive ideas about how you should make decisions in life.
How do we deal with such thoughts that are always there in spite of our lack of consent? How do we destroy intrusive thoughts forever?
Most people would choose the path of denial or ignorance. When you have a thought that is not pleasant or is not in alignment with your higher vision, you decide to ignore its very existence and lock it in the deepest corners of your mind.
Three direct problems arise with this approach. First of all, if you deny the existence of your own thoughts, you strip your own mentality of logical assessment and brand it with illegitimacy. Secondly, you do not actually destroy your intrusive thought, you merely lock it away in a corner of your mind.
Last but not least, a thought that remains with you in hatred and disdain will have all the necessary resources to grow inside your mind and become a true burden in the future.
Acknowledging that you have a certain thought is the first step towards dealing with it in a proper manner. If you let your intrusive thoughts fester, they will inevitably become a hammer that will throw you off balance in life.
If you are having a difficult time accepting that a thought is yours, try to understand the process through which a thought comes to existence.
It is easy to fall under the erroneous argument that every thought represents an inner dimension of the person who conceives them, but the truth is much more complicated than that.
Every thought is first an inspiration that comes from an outside source.
You should not blame yourself for having intrusive thoughts that may not even be yours.
So, the first step towards acknowledging your thoughts is to understand the origin of every thought that ever came into existence.
After that, you must realize that a single thought does not represent you in any way. You need to think about why that thought is haunting your moments and why you are always thinking about a particular thing.
Is it because you want to hurt yourself?
Is it because you have unfinished business with someone or something?
Is it because you feel shame, regret or worse, guilt?
There are many ways you can ask this question, and as hard as it might be to search for an answer, this is the only proper way to deal with your intrusive thoughts.
Think about why you are having a thought, and then think about why it actually bothers you. Running away will not solve anything. Have a conversation with yourself.
Most of our problems would just find solution if we were willing to have a conversation with ourselves.
At the end of the day, your thoughts do not represent who you are.
Rather, you are the one who has the power to give them a sense of identity and belonging.
A BIG HUG!
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So true, great post!
I wish badly enough that I would have stumbled upon this post a year ago. I've struggled with intrusive thoughts ever since I was a teenager, and they would come at certain times of my life to haunt me -do some damage and leave, only to come back later.
Since meditation came into my life almost a year ago now actually, it foreved changed the way my mind operates, and I will never ever take this incredible practice for granted.
Accepting our thoughts for what they are -without judging them -and without trying to get rid of them - is where lies the answer.
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@chbartist sir
Inside all of us there are two types of thoughts streams. A positive and negative. Negative thinking is the product of our mind which is affected by some inferiority complex. Why our infiltration mind comes into existence is the biggest topic of contemplation for us. First of all, it is necessary to understand the processes through which these intrusion thoughts enter us.
This negative thought grows in us as hatred of inferiority spirit, in the form of vulnerable tendencies, hatred and jealousy. Negative thoughts start to emerge in our mind if such thoughts dominate us. To get rid of such thoughts we need to argue with ourselves which can control these thoughts to a great extent. Start the day with a positive thought, spend time in harmony with the good people and discharge your responsibilities with complete loyalty. Do not give place to mind for infiltration ideas so that it can flourish.
I agree with you . Try to find the meaning of these thoughts, turn your face to them and just start to solve them, as you wrote. Thanks for the useful information
I believe those people who are more of biased towards ideas or just take opinions than facts those I call depressed people tbh, people who don't want to learn and stay ignorant and not face the fact are people who cannot deal with emotional stress, problems, or patience and trust me that is what I felt and read about in books about being biased and keeping ears closed. Thanks friend for the article helpful as always
Oh, we're having a lot of those these days in this part of the world.
This is something some religions force their followers not to do. The idea that we can sin with our thoughts is quite a scary thought becasue 1, we can't control what goes through our minds 100% and 2, we don't want to think about ourselves as irreparable sinners.
This is a great start. The same applies to dreams. I've seen people torture themselves over dreams they've had beause they assume that somethign is wrong with them to have conceived such dreams.
@chbartist, If any negative thoughts are popping up and disturbing our mindset then in my opinion it's not about the ignorance but, we have to understand the thought and we have to understand why this thought is coming up at first place. Sometimes Subconsciously we manifest thoughts and when they arise we don't recognise them, so, thoughts may sound random aspect but in my opinion without any particular reason nothing pops up. Stay blessed. 🙂
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@chireerocks
I think i a way that human brain is still to complex for us to understand how it works exactly.
There is so much more yet to explored!
And yet we are capable of use not much of our capacity as well know to all of us.
In my opinion, Humanity is kept in darkness and kept away from the true identity of human being. And i think that we don't have only one brain, we have three or four brains we just cannot digest new discovery of ourselves because we are controlled and we are pushed to be limited by the Centralised System, their education system and what not. But our body is so much intelligent and it talks to our consciousness about the missing links and knowledge, in this way we become more explorative and truth Seeker, we are way way more than what we think. Masses are just stuck into the world of Television. Stay blessed brother. 🙂
So right my friend.
I know that we are capable of so much more and we are kept in dark!
Take a look Wim Hof please -
He change the way i see the world a lot!
I always had a different view but he helped a lot and it keeps helping me!
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Wim Hof is not new to me, personally i really liked his determination and he showcased different picture of human capabilities and his life was so rough and in darkest times of adversity, after that he became friend of hyper cold. And in my opinion Wim Hof is one example where it tells that human beings doesn't need to be super man to perform impossible, everything is lying inside us, we have to channel our unknown capabilities and sometimes we come under unknown super natural zone where we will feel new energy and new way of flow, but because we are standing on the dark side we are far away from the actual definition who we are. But thank you so much for sharing this piece, much appreciated and have a great time ahead. 🙂
We are also machine but the difference is, we have soul, in my opinion the agenda is to bring the soulless race.
@chireerocks
Good to hear that you are familiar with Wim!
He`s just our new way to open our mind to unknown for us!
About the agenda with the race will see what`s gonna happen then in near future!
Because something is coming pretty soon!
Yes, and in my opinion just we have to be vigilant because we never know in which form the deception will arise. What we expected may be is just one more part of deception because, reality lies behind the scenes and in darkness. But we have inner unique undestroyable Technology (Soul) which knows everything, because our flesh is some years old, but our soul is ancient and it can sense and transmit the hidden messages and situations through Intuition, so in my opinion inner language is most important aspect to stand on the path of truth and to sense what's coming. Stay blessed. 🙂
Wise words my friend!
Very wise!
Good morning,
There are thoughts, which usually disturb us in the head, those thoughts are usually negative. With that kind of thoughts, we must be very careful, because they tend to be dangerous. In the case of depressed people can lead them to attempt against their own life and that of others.
My first recommendation to get those thoughts out, would be for people to seek God, to take refuge in the faith and, in prayer, for sure, he will open the doors, so that they can undress their mind and, get out, those thoughts. Then, look for help, talk with those people to whom, you have more confidence about the problems and harmful thoughts that go through your mind and, in case of not getting a solution, ask for psychological help.
We ourselves are owners of our actions, we try that thoughts are translated into positive actions and, as you say we give identity to our belonging
regards
It is better to prevent the emergence of obsessive thoughts. It is better to think and dream about the good, as you know, the thoughts materialize. So the thoughts must be good. Thank you for the excellent to become.
Acquiring the ability to choose our thoughts well is very important for our growth. It helps us enormously to have the mind clear to have it available to perform very important tasks. And getting rid of negative thoughts certainly makes a big difference in our results.