How to remove negative thoughts from mind

There are not any subtractions and divisions in our mind, there's only addition and multiplication. ‘I will just remove negative thoughts and I will have positive thoughts,’ all the best, it's not going to work. It's just that you need to pay little attention as to how it functions. 

You will see there is a distinction between what is you and what you have gathered. Well, see the way the question is asked and also the way normally it's addressed is, people think there's something called as negative thought and positive thought. They want to remove the negative thoughts and have only positive thoughts. For such people, I would ask them to just experiment for ten, fifteen seconds. 

Let them forcefully remove one thought from their mind. For example, next ten seconds, just don't consider a monkey. Try to not consider a monkey for next ten seconds – you'll see, you'll be filled with monkeys. So, what I am saying is, this is the nature of your mind, because in this mind, all the three pedals are throttle – there is no brake, there is no clutch – whatever you touch, it'll only go faster. 

In this quite mind, people are taught from moral teachers and non secular teachers, “Do not believe bad things.” Well, since then, it has been a full-time job. So, there's no way you'll handle the mind like this, this does not 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, what should I do?” The thing is that this – without understanding the basic mechanism of this mind, because our mind, human mind is that the foremost sophet… sophisticated computer on the world . Even all the supercomputers have begin of this. 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 are is important. Body and mind are vehicles that must serve us. 

If you sit during a vehicle, it must go (Laughs), where you would like to travel . If it goes to its own destination, what's the purpose of such a vehicle? It's just a nuisance. Right now, most citizenry are unfortunately, experiencing this fantastic possibility of human mind as a nuisance, as a hard thing.

 Well, this is the most beautiful thing you have. It's just that you need to pay little attention as to how it functions. One simple thing is that this – first and foremost process is… that's why we put out this process called ‘Isha Kriya.’ this is often to distance yourself from your physiological and psychological process.

 There is something called as, “You” which exists. This is not a composite of all of your thoughts and emotions and physiological processes. Beyond that, there is you. If you close your eyes, even if you cannot see anything, you're 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 continue to exist, beyond your emotion you continue to exist, in order that you, the life that you simply are, this has got to inherit your experience. Why is it that you are not allowing that to return into your experience, which is that the most vital aspect of who you are? Who you're immediately , the foremost significant aspect is – you and me are alive immediately , this is often it. 

‘What I'm thinking, what you're thinking’ is not the important thing. We are alive immediately , that's 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 often the top of suffering. Because there are only two sorts of suffering that citizenry undergo – physical suffering and mental suffering. Once you create slightly space between you and your mind, between you and your body, this is often the top of suffering. This is something every person has got to experience and know, otherwise thinking, 

“I will just remove negative thoughts and that i will have positive thoughts,” all the simplest , it's not going to work. One hundred percent it’s not going to work, because nobody can remove it, they can avoid it for some time. So, when negative thoughts come, you say, “Ram, Ram, Shiva, Shiva,” whatever you want, but this is just avoiding, it's not gone. The moment you stop that, it'll pop back with great force, otherwise it'll come in your dreams. 

So, it's very important. First of all, you would like to know – your anger, your resentment, your fear, your anxieties, the negativity that you simply generate; generally resentment, anger, it's always directed towards somebody. But we'd like to know this is often poisons that we are drinking and expecting somebody else to die.