dailydatewithgod

Most of the time we are completely unaware of the thoughts roaming around in our head.  We have gotten so used to them we do not realize they are often the same ones just repeating themselves.  They are wandering around rent-free in our heads.  Many of them did not originate with us. The roaming thoughts come from people or experiences outside of ourselves that we adopted.  Somehow they made sense or we simply did not have an alternative. Many of the roaming thoughts began their rent-free experience in our minds before we had any other options.  We spend the first several years of our life on record.  We watch and see how those around us act and speak and we adopt it as a way of being and thinking for ourselves.  It is only upon the age of seven, referred to as the age of reason, that we stop to perhaps question or allow additional experiences to hold space along with the thoughts we already have.  The hardest concept for us to grasp is that we are not our thoughts.  Yes, we are having them and some we cannot seem to keep from having, but have you ever stopped yourself to ask, who is the one with the thoughts?  Given that with some distance we can see them happening one after another after another, are we the ones observing or the one who is roaming?  Maybe instead of allowing the thoughts to roam inside our heads rent-free we can question them and take a closer look.  We can start charging them so to speak instead of allowing them to live rent-free.  Obviously, some are helpful but most need at least to be evaluated to determine if they are useful in the present context.  The thoughts starting roaming in our heads long before we knew we could choose whether or not to identify with them.  The first step is to notice without judgment the roaming thought.  The next is to use the wisdom of our hearts which has some distance and knows the deeper truth of who we really are.  We can check in with our hearts when we see one of the roaming thoughts.  Pause, take a breath, let the thought roam through our mind while we place our hands on our hearts to see how it feels.  The prospect of doing this with all our roaming thoughts is overwhelming.  Deep down, we know which ones to start with.  The roaming thoughts which popped your mind as you started reading this blog is a good place to begin.