Creative Thinking by Julee Bergstrom
Thought is a creative force. All life is experienced through thought. Consciousness perceives life through the creative principle of thought.
An arising, as I perceive it, is the ground of being creating life each and every moment, with consciousness perceiving it through the principle of thought. Creation is alive – now. Reality is continually being created anew.
In this reality, thought is experienced as feeling, as emotion. Loving thoughts generate loving feelings. Hateful thoughts generate hateful feelings. But as most thought is subconscious, the feeling is the indicator of what’s being thought moment to moment. Thought and feeling are the two sides of the same coin. Feeling is not separate from thought. All thought resonates in the body as feeling.
It’s an inside job. One can only experience one’s self. There is no outside. As Fred so often reminds us, there is only one thing going on!
This mystery has great practical application in daily living. It tells me that my emotional state is self-generated. No feeling is the result of any outside event or circumstance – there is no outside. One hundred percent of my emotional state is created by my internal response to perceived “outside” influences. The illusion that I am being acted upon by external forces arises when I believe this to be so, when I accept this story. I so easily forget that it is only thought!
A great example is when I become aggravated by traffic. This is reported as “the traffic is making me miserable!” But nothing outside of oneself can be experienced. One can only experience one’s own thoughts and the subsequent feelings. Aggravated thought gives rise to aggravated experience.
The body is like an instrument. Play love and kindness in the brain, and love and kindness are experienced as a feeling in the body. But more often than not, as most thought is unconscious, the feeling is noticed before one detects the thinking behind it.
No emotion happens to us except by us, being activated by thought in the moment. It just seems to arrive from elsewhere. This is the ultimate illusion, to which every one of us will remain susceptible for as long as we remain “in unit.” It is more fun to be in the park when you forget you’re a character playing a role – until it’s not!
Then we can learn to relax and respond to life from a more interesting place, knowing that it’s all an inside job. Seeing clearly that our feelings and experience arise from the creative force of thought, at any given moment we can choose to drop out of thought and into the peaceful embrace of Self. Again and again. And again.
Julee Bergstrom is enrolled in The Living Method Continuing Student Program. She lives in the UK.
April 3, 2017 @ 12:50 pm
Thanks, Julee. This is so helpful. I am going to practice applying this to my chronic pain. Fearful thoughts about it lead to fearful feelings, compounding the pain and suffering. But it’s really only sensations arising in consciousness, which ultimately is not even my consciousness. It’s just an experience for Oneness, who is neither afraid nor adverse to anything.
:)Kathleen
April 5, 2017 @ 12:10 am
I “thought up” sub-consciousness too! And a “real” story line that I supposedly have to unravel backwards and control going forward, to even get at that subconscious – that this way I would already be a victim of anyway! Thanks so much Julee for helping me stay in, BE, the Moment.
Your One (it’s an inside joke, no? 🙂 )
April 18, 2017 @ 10:40 pm
Subconscious thought, wow, then the body signals for certain. Often thoughts are just witnessed, observed floating by, then occasionally, like a tornado funnel, sucked into a story, deep patterning.