Exploring The Three Principles with Sarie Taylor
Thoughts creating storms…
We often talk in the Membership about thought storms, but what does this really mean?
A "Thought Storm" occurs when we become entrenched in our own thinking to the extent that we begin to believe and cling to all of our thoughts.
This can then bring physical and mental discomfort that we could describe as a storm.
Our experience of thoughts can be very much like a storm.
As we are only ever feeling our thoughts, these 'thought storms' can feel fierce and fiery. The intensity of the thoughts we give all of our focus and attention to can start to feel very real.
We bring them to life via all of our senses.
However, also like a storm they always pass: there has never been storm anywhere ever in the history of storms that hasn’t passed or eased at some point.
This is the same for us experiencing our thinking.
I watched my 18 month old daughter the other day as she was telling me words of things that had happened through the day. What she had eaten, who she had seen, what she had seen on the tv and so on.
It made me smile and she definitely wasn’t suffering, she seemed vey happy and content.
It reminded me:
It's the not the fact that we have thoughts that's the issue or causes suffering, its how we respond and what we do with them!
My baby wasn’t going over everything with judgment and therefore no storm was brewed.
She didn’t find herself saying "ooh I shouldn’t have eaten that extra yoghurt", or "I should have said no when mum offered a biscuit so I don’t get big thighs", and she wasn’t thinking how much she liked or didn’t like the people she spoke to or comparing herself to them… I think you get the picture!
We hold so much judgement and over analysis to the thoughts that we have at times that it creates a metaphorical storm that will pass as soon as we let go.
Learn more about The Three Principles that I share with my members and clients in my 3 day Mini-Course: Understanding Anxiety (click here) to help you learn more about thought storms and how our minds work. Understanding is key to the storms passing quicker!
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