Voice-Thoughts Anyone?
Posted on February 25, 2008
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When I awoke this morning the first thing I notice is that there is an immediate jumble of voice-thoughts in my head…voicing all manner of stuff in my mind. Song lyrics, lines from the movie I watched last night, thoughts trying to get me not to meditate, thoughts about what should I eat, what should I do, and many of them sound like me speaking to me.
I have to meditate to “overlay” objectivity to set my mind right to do my day. The voice-thoughts subside in intensity as I watch and thereby distance myself from them, and my mind becomes quieter, not completely, but much quieter non-the-less. I am now separate from the voice-thoughts and I am now armed to do my day.
As I watch myself through the day there are continuing attempts by “voice-thoughts” to attract my attention and draw me into a conversation. I see and dismiss most of them quickly. If some voice, like a self-righteous nag, wants to point out an error of mine and shame me into not looking at it, I quietly acknowledge what it is saying as true and then dismiss that voice too. My quilt and redemption are between me and God, not it. But yes, we can learn from our enemy, the ones within as well as without.
I especially watch any negative feelings and angry conversation in my head that might arise from any encounter with a negative situation. These are the most powerful “voice-thoughts” of all. “That lady backed up her car and almost slammed into you, what an idiot” it might say. But I resist being sucked into the negative conversation in my head on the spot more and more. This has allowed me to progressively grow more patient with people and situations and increasingly able to do whatever I must in that situation with growing grace.
Through-out the day I continue to watch all those things in my field of view, staying out of involvement with inner conversations and withdrawing from them if I find myself caught up in any. This still happens, but with subtler and quieter “voice-thoughts” as time goes by. But through grace I am seeing them too.
From experience I know that there are thought-processes within me that I do not yet see, but I do not stop watching. This path is a gradual unfoldment, and God allows me to see and thereby become free of what I must become free of, each in it’s turn.
Rick Hurst
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