Don’t Believe Everything…

I once found a bumper sticker that read: “Don’t believe everything that you think!” 

“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned with in the confines of their own thoughts.  They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”  Eckhart Tolle – Stillness Speaks.

What if we stop that thought, choose a different one, change the narrow, mind-made perception and expand the vision?   What more can you “see” and understand? 

How will your day change when YOU stop believing everything that YOU think? 

 Now, that is something to think about!

Learning to Unlearn

 As little children, before we learn to speak, we are completely authentic.  Our actions are guided by instinct and emotions – that is, we listen to the silent “voice of our integrity.”

Once we learn to speak, the people around us hook our attention and program us with knowledge.  The “voice of knowledge” comes alive inside our head, and it never stops talking, judging, gossiping, and abusing us.  That “voice” constantly sabotages our happiness and keeps us from enjoying a reality of truth and love.

The voice in our head doesn’t belong to us; we aren’t born with that voice.  Thinking comes after we learn – first a language, then all of the judgments and lies.  That “voice of knowledge” comes as we accumulate knowledge. 

If we learn this voice of knowledge then we have the ability to unlearn this knowledge.  The way to transform what you believe about yourself is to unlearn what you have learned.  Seek the truth that is your “voice of integrity.” 

When you unlearn, your faith returns to you, your personal power increases, and you can invest your faith in new beliefs.

Is the voice you are listening to the “voice of knowledge” or “voice of integrity?” Or maybe this makes more sense to you.  Is the voice you are listening to your belief or someone else’s belief?

What do you think?