HOW CAN WE CONTROL THE THINKING THEN?
We don’t. This is the practice of meditation. We train ourselves to let go of the thoughts to free ourselves from stress. We don’t try to control the mind or force it to stop thinking. When you try to control it, the ego mind will resist you even more. By controlling or forcing the mind, you’re feeding the ego so it creates more thoughts. When you let go of the thoughts, you stop feeding the ego, thus there is less resistance. Through consistent practice of meditation, you can let go of the thoughts to the point where the mind becomes completely still and here the mind enters higher consciousness.

THE PRACTICE SOUNDS DIFFICULT. DON’T WE NEED THOUGHTS TO EXIST?
Actually, the practice isn’t difficult. It’s a very simple practice and yet, it’s very effective because it frees your mind from the negative emotions. Stress is created by thought itself (negative reaction); therefore, we learn to let go of the thoughts. We don’t lose the ability to think. We’re simply shifting our consciousness from lower to higher state. Instead of relying on reactive thinking (habit), we rely on insight and wisdom from higher consciousness.

Most of our thoughts from lower consciousness are repetitive and not useful. It keeps thinking of the past and the future and doesn’t want to be still (restlessness). It judges everything so it creates preferences (likes and dislikes). This activity (judging) creates fluctuation in the mind which causes you to experience emotional roller coaster going from pleasure to displeasure, happy to sad, love to hate, etc.

Unfortunately, most people are caught up in their own emotions and become emotionally stuck. But, we can become “unstuck” and completely eliminate stress from our lives by accessing higher consciousness.

Meditation practice creates a bridge for us to cross from lower consciousness to higher conscious state.

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