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Endless thoughts or the quick way?
Your personality is all about your thoughts. For a while he can make it look like your life is quite nice, but it is guaranteed that there will be times where unpleasant issues will be there as well. Now the first attempt of your personality will be to put these into perspective, and try to minimize the unpleasantness that follow from them, at least the feelings that they cause in you. Now this usurps
quite some 'thinking time', since you will not be able to make things right according to your normal personality patterns and standards, otherwise you would not have this issue. So you have to look for tricks, other ways of looking at it, reassurance, support, reliving or any other way to try to make this work for you in retrospect (be right, justify, grip, acceptance etc.). This too is not likely to be successful in short notice, and this is the beginning of the endless thought patterns.
Have you ever wondered how this actually works? This causes you to think of all kinds of other things while you are at work, causing you to be less productive and focused. But you will do it in the car as well - with all consequences which may come of it, on medication often stickers are applied 'this may influence your driving capabilities', this should be applied to endless thinking as well! You will
do it while you are talking to someone, when you eat, watch tv (and as a consequence do not get half of what is going on). So you see, these never-ending thoughts take you away from the moment itself, since you have not been able to make things work according to the rules of your personality. Now that you can get away with it quite easily is because in principle you are the only one who suffers the consequences, since this huge amount of thinking takes places in what seems to be the privacy of your
own head. And to your personality it is important to do this, otherwise you get stuck with these feelings of tension, which are even more unpleasant, and this is the way he has chosen to deal with it.
Endless thinking is successful only because you cannot accept what is (and uncertainty now on what is going to happen later is part of that). It is looking for new approaches to make it acceptable anyway. Now why not try a different approach and simply state: I accept this situation as it is and forgive myself and everybody involved? This is fast, simple and effective, and you can repeat it each time
you find yourself getting stuck in endless thought patterns once again. It is your own choice: do you want to keep on dragging your attention away from the present and use thinking and rethinking and after a long period of time end up with a form of often hardly effective acceptance of something anyway (and it is also a sure way to guarantee that inspiration from your inner Self cannot reach your awareness: how can it reach it when you are so occupied with directing your own thinking), or do you
choose the fast track? And when you doubt whether this will bring you what you are looking for, then ask yourself plainly: what is it that I want to come of this endless thinking, which results or experience am I really looking for? By the way, be not surprised that your personality will want to stick to his way, even though it takes a lot more time and energy, since the other way obviously is not hís, so it does not strengthen him. This means that it may take quite some courage to make this choice
anyway, but it does not mean that your personality can stop you from making it if you do not want that to happen.
In this way, you can move on quickly, it is an approach which clearly aims at inviting your inner Self, and through which you can truly experience that it is right the way it is, even though your personality cannot make it work. You have your energy and attention fully available for living in the present, which allows you to invite your inner Self even more.
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