One advice i read in a book that helped me a lot is that if you’re overthinking and its hard to quiet your mind, you can start by observing your thoughts instead of interacting with them. You can be aware of them like you see a bird flying by, you don't have to engage with your thoughts, you dont have to energize them, you dont have to validate them even. In the end, you are not your thoughts anyway, and if you’re able to just observe your thoughts from this stance where you’re more curious and interested to know where they came from, eventually you’ll get your answers and be able to heal and move on, the thoughts would leave in an organic and natural way and then it just gets easier and easier to deal with. Another thing that helped me is laughing when i have negative thoughts, because it is actually funny when you understand you’re not the negative thoughts but having this lighthearted reaction does wonders.
Hey I don’t usually comment, but I have to say-after watching this, I went through your channel and watched like eight of your videos. You made something ‘click’ for me, it was very much needed. Please keep posting your wisdom. Can’t thank you enough.
Wow. Thank you so much for this comment, Lauren. this really means a lot!! I can promise the posting! But I can’t always promise the wisdom 😉 Can I ask if there is anything that resonated specifically? Then I can make sure I always improve my videos based on the loving people that cross my way 🙏
@@sajafendelI think you’ve mentioned this before in one of your videos, but as a fellow overthinker, your videos condense the insane about of nuance/information that’s available in this community about these topics. It’s like you’ve been in my brain and can distill the unnecessarily complex ‘add-ons’ from what’s actually important, and your videos are fantastic reminders. You’ve mentioned that this is what you wanna do with your content, and yeah just wanna let you know-that’s exactly what you’re doing. I’m not sure if it’s from this video, but something I’ve been personally struggling with is marrying these two concepts in spirituality: desires are part of your human conditioning and should be renounced, or desires are a call to one’s life purpose (nihilism versus absurdism basically). I haven’t been able to answer this in my own life, and kinda had the thought ‘well if I don’t desire anything, why not just roll over and die? Chilling in wholeness is neat, but like, I could do this dead.’ I meant it humorously, but I think you said almost the same thing verbatim. I have yet to have anything addressing issues in spirituality exactly like this, and do it super simply. Bunch of pieces just fell into place for me. Also your videos helped me realize how much I’m accidentally forcing things in my attempts to let things go. Negative emotion pops up, I’m super identified and attached to letting it go properly-so my nervous system hangs onto it for dear life haha. Don’t have an answer for this one yet, but awareness is the first step to everything I guess. My biggest issue in controlling the external has been my attempts to control myself, if that makes sense. You’re helping me sort that out. Anyway, thank you for your wonderful content, I’ll be watching for as long as you’ll be posting haha.
I appreciate it bro I’m glad you liked it! Yes man it’s quite interesting I realised it when I was watching an incense burn one day and it was this perfect straight line without any wind it almost looked solid and then a little gust came and it waved almost in sync with what I was thinking and it just hit me that is the exact relationship between pure consciousness and thought, they are inherently one stream of consciousness contracted in on itself by itself. Then I applied the wind metaphor came after because it was easier to explain haha! But that’s the origin.
Wow man, I’ve been looking for content like this for such a long time. What a genius analogy you gave about consciousness & thoughts. It’s true - humans are waking up to endlessly create thoughts that is actually what causes them to suffer. If they eliminate thought, their reality in its pure naked form becomes apparent. And we’ve become so extremely conditioned in living so ignorantly dialled into thinking that we don’t realise happiness escapes as a result of how we USE ourselves. Our mind and how we direct it.
Hey my friend I'm really glad you like the video and the ideas behind it. Thank you for the support! It really means a lot on a new channel. I would agree we are endlessly creating thoughts, however I don't believe thinking is a problem, I believe it's only a problem when the thinking is on behalf of lack, fear or limitation. If you mean endless thoughts based on that then yes I completely agree! It is also useful to calm the actual thinking process to recognise what is "beneath" - which is not really beneath - but actually what thoughts are made of. If you take my wind analogy all the way, we see that if thoughts are a movement of consciousness, then thinking is in fact still Being, pure consciousness, and there is therefore no distraction from meditation. Anyway, Have a great day :)
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This was a great video man! Very insightful and exactly what I needed to hear to get me back into meditation. Subscribed and anticipating the next video!
I’m glad you found it insightful my friend. I appreciate the support and comment, I’ll look forward to providing even more value in future 🙏👊 Anything in particular that you resonated with so I can be sure to improve my content?
@@sajafendel your analogies are really effective. It can be easy to overdo them but I thought the wind one in particular was very helpful. Idk, usually videos like this sound like annoying guru shit to me but I can tell you are being authentic. Just keep being yourself brother, and people will see that and show up for it.
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Saja, Your comments are insightful and powerful enough. You do not need to use the F word. I know it is just to exclaim point, but as a viewer I find the F word inappropriate and not fitting to the high quality of your discussion.
If I want to create wind I usually eat lots of pinto beans.
One advice i read in a book that helped me a lot is that if you’re overthinking and its hard to quiet your mind, you can start by observing your thoughts instead of interacting with them. You can be aware of them like you see a bird flying by, you don't have to engage with your thoughts, you dont have to energize them, you dont have to validate them even. In the end, you are not your thoughts anyway, and if you’re able to just observe your thoughts from this stance where you’re more curious and interested to know where they came from, eventually you’ll get your answers and be able to heal and move on, the thoughts would leave in an organic and natural way and then it just gets easier and easier to deal with. Another thing that helped me is laughing when i have negative thoughts, because it is actually funny when you understand you’re not the negative thoughts but having this lighthearted reaction does wonders.
Thank you for sharing a very helpful perspective :)
Hey I don’t usually comment, but I have to say-after watching this, I went through your channel and watched like eight of your videos. You made something ‘click’ for me, it was very much needed.
Please keep posting your wisdom. Can’t thank you enough.
Wow. Thank you so much for this comment, Lauren. this really means a lot!! I can promise the posting! But I can’t always promise the wisdom 😉
Can I ask if there is anything that resonated specifically? Then I can make sure I always improve my videos based on the loving people that cross my way 🙏
@@sajafendelI think you’ve mentioned this before in one of your videos, but as a fellow overthinker, your videos condense the insane about of nuance/information that’s available in this community about these topics. It’s like you’ve been in my brain and can distill the unnecessarily complex ‘add-ons’ from what’s actually important, and your videos are fantastic reminders. You’ve mentioned that this is what you wanna do with your content, and yeah just wanna let you know-that’s exactly what you’re doing.
I’m not sure if it’s from this video, but something I’ve been personally struggling with is marrying these two concepts in spirituality: desires are part of your human conditioning and should be renounced, or desires are a call to one’s life purpose (nihilism versus absurdism basically). I haven’t been able to answer this in my own life, and kinda had the thought ‘well if I don’t desire anything, why not just roll over and die? Chilling in wholeness is neat, but like, I could do this dead.’
I meant it humorously, but I think you said almost the same thing verbatim. I have yet to have anything addressing issues in spirituality exactly like this, and do it super simply. Bunch of pieces just fell into place for me.
Also your videos helped me realize how much I’m accidentally forcing things in my attempts to let things go. Negative emotion pops up, I’m super identified and attached to letting it go properly-so my nervous system hangs onto it for dear life haha. Don’t have an answer for this one yet, but awareness is the first step to everything I guess. My biggest issue in controlling the external has been my attempts to control myself, if that makes sense. You’re helping me sort that out.
Anyway, thank you for your wonderful content, I’ll be watching for as long as you’ll be posting haha.
I liked how you kept it simple and also your analogy of thoughts being like the wind was new to me 👌
I appreciate it bro I’m glad you liked it! Yes man it’s quite interesting I realised it when I was watching an incense burn one day and it was this perfect straight line without any wind it almost looked solid and then a little gust came and it waved almost in sync with what I was thinking and it just hit me that is the exact relationship between pure consciousness and thought, they are inherently one stream of consciousness contracted in on itself by itself. Then I applied the wind metaphor came after because it was easier to explain haha! But that’s the origin.
Wow man, I’ve been looking for content like this for such a long time.
What a genius analogy you gave about consciousness & thoughts.
It’s true - humans are waking up to endlessly create thoughts that is actually what causes them to suffer. If they eliminate thought, their reality in its pure naked form becomes apparent. And we’ve become so extremely conditioned in living so ignorantly dialled into thinking that we don’t realise happiness escapes as a result of how we USE ourselves. Our mind and how we direct it.
Hey my friend I'm really glad you like the video and the ideas behind it. Thank you for the support! It really means a lot on a new channel.
I would agree we are endlessly creating thoughts, however I don't believe thinking is a problem, I believe it's only a problem when the thinking is on behalf of lack, fear or limitation. If you mean endless thoughts based on that then yes I completely agree! It is also useful to calm the actual thinking process to recognise what is "beneath" - which is not really beneath - but actually what thoughts are made of. If you take my wind analogy all the way, we see that if thoughts are a movement of consciousness, then thinking is in fact still Being, pure consciousness, and there is therefore no distraction from meditation.
Anyway, Have a great day :)
@zeeinvest9473 Hey my friend! I now have a completely free community with live meditations, QnA's, coaching and business masterminds, feel free to check it out, I'd love to see you there :) www.skool.com/the-thought-dojo-9968/about
This was a great video man! Very insightful and exactly what I needed to hear to get me back into meditation. Subscribed and anticipating the next video!
I’m glad you found it insightful my friend. I appreciate the support and comment, I’ll look forward to providing even more value in future 🙏👊
Anything in particular that you resonated with so I can be sure to improve my content?
@@sajafendel your analogies are really effective. It can be easy to overdo them but I thought the wind one in particular was very helpful. Idk, usually videos like this sound like annoying guru shit to me but I can tell you are being authentic. Just keep being yourself brother, and people will see that and show up for it.
@@wadecarefully Hahaha I know what you mean. Thanks for the valuable feedback my friend. I will continue to do so :)
@@wadecarefully Hey man! I now have a completely free community with live meditations, QnA's, coaching and more, feel free to check it out :) www.skool.com/the-thought-dojo-9968/about
very well said
Appreciate it man! Anything stand out in particular that you’ve noticed your experience?
Sounds like Advaita Vedanta
I heard similar ideas while watching lectures by Swami Sarvapriyananda like ones about consciousness
Yes this is Advaita. Although I came through a different path and found advaita later.
Saja, Your comments are insightful and powerful enough. You do not need to use the F word. I know it is just to exclaim point, but as a viewer I find the F word inappropriate and not fitting to the high quality of your discussion.
Yes conditioning from my rough past, it will fade out 😉 thanks for sharing 🙏 I appreciate your words.