How can we remove negative thoughts from our mind?

We look at how the mind, which should be the greatest boon, is unfortunately being used by most people as a misery-manufacturing machine. It is a simple process to begin the process of experiencing the magic of the mind. This topic has been extracted from speech given by SADHGURU on how to remove negative thoughts from our mind. Read on what he had said.

How to remove negative thoughts?

If you think “I will just remove negative thoughts and I will have positive thoughts”, all the best for you, because it will not work for you.

Then there is a question arising in our mind, “How can I remove negative thoughts from my mind?”

Well, see the way the question is asked and the question normally addressed that people are thinking that there is something called negative thoughts and positive thoughts and they want to remove those negative thoughts from their mind and have to fill only positive thoughts.

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If you are in this situation, I would ask you to do one thing to test yourselves. For just 15 to 20 seconds can you forcefully remove a thought from your mind? For example, don’t think of a monkey for 20 seconds. Try to not remember a monkey.

What happens? For the next ten seconds you will be full of monkeys. so, this is the nature of the human mind, because in this mind all the three pedals are throttled - there is no brake, there is no clutch. whatever you touch, it will only go faster. In this kind of mind, people have been taught from moral teachers and religious teachers, “do not think about bad things.” Well, since then, it’s been a full-time job.
So, there is no way you can handle the mind like this, this doesn’t need any great enlightenment. If you spend two minutes with your eyes closed, you will realize, you cannot do anything forcefully with this mind.

So,“ I want to remove negative thoughts”, do not ever go in this direction, because what you want to remove will become your quality, always you will be on it.

So, you can ask, what I should do?

The thing is that, without understanding the fundamental mechanism of this mind, because our mind, the human mind is the most sophisticated computer on the planet. Even all the supercomputers that have evolved till now came out from our mind, right.

When this is the case, is it not important that we understand the mechanics of how it functions?

One simplistic aspect of how it functions is, there are no subtractions and divisions in our mind, there is only addition and multiplication. If you try to do something with it, it will say, “One more.” If you try hard, it will multiply into many more.

In this mind, you don’t try to identify what is positive, what is negative and try to remove it. First of all, one needs to understand, this mind of yours, this body of yours is supposed to serve you.

 

The life that you have is more important. Body and mind are vehicles that must serve us. If you sit in a vehicle, it must go where you want to go. If it goes to its own destination, what is the point of such a vehicle? it’s just a nuisance. Right now, most human beings are unfortunately experiencing this fantastic possibility of the human mind as a nuisance, as a troublesome thing. Well this is the most beautiful thing you have.

It is just that you need to pay little attention as to how it functions. One simple and the foremost process that Sadhguru has said is called the “Isha Kriya.”

This is to distance yourself from your physiological and psychological process.

There is something called “YOU” which exists. This is not a composite of all your thoughts and emotions and physiological processes. Beyond that, there is you. If you close your eyes, even if you cannot see anything, you are still there. It is through the window of your eyes that you are looking out, but if you close your eyes, it doesn't mean that you don’t exist, you still exist. So, beyond your thought you still exist, beyond your emotion you still exist, so that you, the life that you are, this has to come into your experience.

Why is it that we are not allowing that to come into our experience, which is the most significant aspect of who we are? whom we are right now, the most significant aspect is - you and me are alive right now, this is it. What I am thinking, what you're thinking is not the important thing. We are alive right now, that is the important thing.

So, it is important that you focus on this fundamental sense of aliveness within you, and then you will see there is a natural distance between you and your thought process. Once there is a distance between your psychological process and your physiological process, this is the end of suffering.

Because there are only two kinds of suffering that human beings go through - one is the physical suffering and the other one mental suffering. Once you create a little space between you and your mind, between you and your body, this is the end of suffering.

This is something every human being has to experience and know, otherwise thinking, “I will just remove negative thoughts and I will have positive thoughts,”

All the best for you! because it wont work at all. One hundred percent it is not going to work for you, because nobody can remove it, they can avoid it for some time.

So, when negative thoughts come, you say your God name or whatever you want. But this is just avoiding, it’s not gone. This is not your permanent solution. The moment you stop that, it will pop back with great force, otherwise it will come back in your dreams. So it’s very important. First of all, you need to understand - your anger, your resentment, your fear, your anxieties, the negativity that you generate; generally resentment, anger - it is always directed towards somebody. 

But we need to understand that this is poison that we are drinking and expecting somebody else to die. Fortunately, life doesn't work like that. If you drink poison, you are going to die, somebody else not going to die for you, right.

So, we need to understand this, when we say “Poison” - today, you can have yourself chemically analyzed. Right now, ‘what is your blood work?’ What does it say?

Five minutes of intense anger, check your blood work and see, there will be a lot of negative elements in it. Literally, you are poisoning yourselves. So, do you want to poison yourself?

Definitely not, right. Now the very question is coming from certain helplessness, “What shall I do?”

The answer is, don’t do anything. Just sit back and just concern yourself with something which is your life process, may be your heartbeat, may be your breath, may be the sensation of being alive.

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Depending upon how sensitive or how perceptive you are, accordingly, find something, it could be a sensation in the body, it could be breath, it could be your heartbeat, it could be anything, something which indicates life to you. Just pay attention to that for some time. Slowly, you will see there is a distinction between what is you and what you have gathered, which includes both your physiological and psychological possibility or mess, whatever you made out of it.

This is helpful? This topic on how to remove negative thoughts had been extracted from the famous speech given by Jagadish Vasudev popularly known as Sadhguru -  founded the ISHA foundation.