"Stinking thinking" is simply choosing to spend time with thoughts that cause you pain.
To feed adverse inner-thoughts with your attention is to increase your inner pain.
To keep feeding a thought after it has savagely attacked you is insane.
Yet, some of us seem to be addicted to inner-pain until the pain becomes so great we wake up.
Adverse thoughts are like magnets attracting more adverse thoughts in the same way lions are attracted to the kill.
Only in this case the "kill" is you. Thought management is such a critical skill to develop.
How can you stop thinking adverse thoughts?
It's not the thought that comes into your mind that cause the problem.
It's the thought you choose to believe. To stop feeding adverse thoughts is to stop giving them the food they need to survive and thrive - your attention.
When your attention is no longer available to them, they will move on to a weaker victim to attack.
-- Dr T. Aaron Lim
I attended a few Seminars conducted by Dr T. Aaron Lim held in TTSH, Singapore and find his advice makes me more aware of many self imposed misery cause by our own thought.
Being aware of these self imposed thought, we can eliminate them slowly and move on to something more beneficial for ourself and others!
Dexterine Ho
Notes:
Dr. T. Aaron Lim, a native of Malaysia, is a graduate of St. Francis' Institution, Malaysia; College of Agriculture, Malaysia (now Universiti Putra Malaysia); Louisiana State University, USA; University of Hawaii, USA and Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA. He is a former professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA.
Born and raised in the ancient philosophies of the Orient and trained in the modern sciences of the West, Dr. Aaron has a unique talent of bridging the traditions of East and West.
He has been serving and teaching health, personal development and spiritual growth for over 30 years. As a dynamic speaker and educator, he uses his multiple talents to help others reach their fullest potential.
Along with his wife, Dehyana Lee Lim , he co - founded and co-directs "Bodhi Fellowship / Center For Inner Peace" (www.bodhifellowship.org) a nonprofit, spiritual organization dedicated to teaching unconditional, universal love and selfless service based in San Diego, California, USA and Malacca, Malaysia.
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Totally agree about not feeding adverse thoughts. There's this line in the novel "Dune" by Frank Herbert. It goes something like "Fear is the mind-killer". I've come to realise that self-doubt is one of the greatest harm one can inflict on oneself.
I'm a believer in Positive Thinking too. Of course people will ask "So when does Positive Thinking become Self-delusion?"
Kinda hard to explain, but a friend say "so long your self-delusion doesn't harm others, it's ok to continue deludiing yourself". LOL
Maybe he's right!
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