Thinking

 

   O ur intellectual cognition determines to a considerable extent our feelings. Nevertheless, our world of thought is based on our feelings.

This is why it is sometimes so difficult to distinguish between thinking and feeling. Because both experiences of human nature arise in dependence on each other.

If we feel a feeling of rejection or doubt about ourselves because someone else has criticized us, this is mainly due to the motive of intellectual insecurity. Insecurity because we tend to recognize ourselves in the mirror of the other. This idea of self-doubt arises mainly from our causal ignorance. To the essential questions of life (where do we come from? why are we here? where are we going?) we usually do not know the answer in our consciousness, although our subconscious can answer these questions and does so in many ways.

Those answers manifest themselves in us through our feelings and through our wishes, dreams and hopes. So our intellect may sometimes serve us to perceive our feelings as messengers of our subconscious and unconscious.

But feelings can also be „thought“ and thoughts on the other side can also be sensed. So it is primarily a matter of researching the cause of our respective state of being. Thinking means dreaming and this manifests in us subconscious wishes until they mature and become reality. If one wants to strive for inner peace, one can use both approaches to overcome the original state of not knowing. On the emotional level, we may „program ourselves positively“ – in the sense that we focus on the beautiful moments we have experienced. Like attracts like and so we will tend to create more „beautiful“ moments in our EXPERIENCE. And this reflection on states experienced as beautiful changes our world of thoughts in the further moment, as both have an interdependent effect. In return, on the path to inner peace, it is equally beneficial to choose positive and beneficial thoughts to influence our emotional experience.

In my opinion, this is the main reason for those meditative methods which include a concentration on positive images in front of the inner eye. Through this the will of the person is formed to be active in a goal-oriented way. In other words: he strives.

The interdependence of our thoughts and feelings offers both challenging potential and danger. In any case, the ability to influence our daily experience is immanent. So we all may strive to illuminate our being on our paths, attentively and „seeing eye“, in order to finally penetrate it. And mindfulness includes the thought of permanent confrontation with the You.

„To have good thoughts is one thing; to act upon them is another.“

Mahatma Gandhi