Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

Everything in the physical or psychological world comes, goes, and changes. Your thoughts come and go. Every feeling you have comes and goes. Your perception of life comes and goes. So, you are living in a thought-created world and the content of your experience is something that comes and goes and changes. It arises — and then it disappears.

It reveals a higher order of thinking with characteristics such as clarity, insight, perspective, motivation, inspiration, creativity, and common sense solutions to your daily challenges.

You begin to see, over and over, “It’s all Thought!” and “This feeling I am now having is coming from the use of Thought and nowhere else.”

There is the thinking that you do, and the thinking that comes to you when your head is clear.

Awareness of Thought frees you of the notion that the external world is connected to, and responsible for, creating your feelings.

The now is a wide-open awareness when you are no longer caught up in any of the thoughts going through your mind. You are fully present, relaxed and alert. This is your natural meditative state. At some point during the day everyone spontaneously falls into this natural meditative state.

Mind is the intelligence that knows how to create every living system and how to operate those systems.

Thought recognition naturally allows these thoughts to fall away, or it naturally allows you to stop holding these thoughts to be true. When you stop thinking in a way that keeps your stress and upset alive, your head clears of these upsetting thoughts, and you bounce back to more peaceful states of mind.

When your thoughts quiet down, and you start to feel better, that’s the feeling that you are looking for. When it is ego, it often feels like excitement and your thinking starts to race with all of the things that you think you should be doing. It’s a high-energy feeling, as opposed to the calm, quiet knowing