Question: I have a question to the masters. What is an efficient way to overcome overthinking and a sometimes compulsive chatter in the mind? I understand that I need to accept this separate self as inconsequential and accept myself as it is now. But how can I more efficiently pull my attention away from it, because it is still taking energy from me?
Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2022 Webinar – Democracy and Christhood.
There are many factors that cause this chatter of the mind, what many Buddhists call the “monkey mind” that is constantly thinking, constantly talking, constantly analyzing, constantly engaging in this or that, wanting to pull your attention into this never-ending process. One of the factors can certainly be projections from forces in the astral realm or the mental realm, forces that are simply trying to put you off balance so that they can take your energy. There can also be a projection from the collective consciousness. For this, you need to use our calls for the protection and sealing of your aura by Archangel Michael, and for Astrea to cut you free from these dark forces.
You also need to, of course, use our tools for healing various of these separate selves or these reactionary patterns. For example, you will see that many people experience having some kind of conflict or disagreement with another person. And this then becomes a tool for their minds to continue to go over the situation again and again, and analyze this and you are drawn into it. And you cannot stop yourself from thinking about this, wanting to correct the situation in your mind that you cannot change at the physical level. You need to realize that this comes from certain separate selves, because you have an attachment to the situation, to the outcome, or you have a self that is not willing to forgive the other person. Again, by forgiving the other person, you actually set yourself free. So, do you want to be free? There can be many of these separate selves that are causing this constant chatter in the mind.
And ultimately, there is no other way than to see them, resolve them, and just let it go where all of a sudden, the things that your mind usually could pull you into, putting your attention to, they no longer seem important to you. You can just look at it and say: “Oh, well, so what. It is not important.”
But even if you resolve a lot of selves, you have to recognize you live on a very dense planet that is very chaotic, has a very chaotic collective consciousness, and there are so many chaotic energies. It can be difficult to avoid that your mind simply picks up from this. And you also have not only a separate self as such, as we normally explain it, but you have a, perhaps we could say, a larger separate self that is actually charged with making your mind work. And this self will simply always be thinking, evaluating, analyzing.
This messenger realized a number of years ago that he had a problem-solving self that wanted to solve problems. And if there was not a problem to solve, well, it would create one. It can be difficult to avoid having your mind be active and thinking about this or that. There are Zen Buddhists who have spent decades in meditation, in contemplation, and they still find it difficult to silence the mind. Many even have said that it is not important to silence the mind as long as you are still focusing on something beyond the mind which we would say would be your I AM Presence, or the spiritual realm or your spiritual growth.
But I will give you a practical tool that can be helpful. What you will notice if you observe your own mind is that a thought comes into the mind. There is a split second where you can actually decide: “Should I go along with this thought, should I think this thought or should I not?” Most people are not aware of this. But as you put your attention on it, you can come to a point where you become aware that there is that brief interval of time where a thought comes to you either from the outside or from the mind itself, but the Conscious You, your conscious awareness has that short interval to decide: “Will I go along with this or will I not?”
Instead of actually deciding: “I will not go along with this”, what you do instead is you simply become aware of the thought even if it has already started and had been going for some time and then you mentally say: “I surrender—I surrender the thought.” You are basically signaling, this is not important for you, you are not going to engage this, you are not going to put your attention or energy on it, you just surrender it, you are letting it go. It is not important. It has no significance. If you continue to do this, you can have some success.
Every time a thought comes up, or you can even do it, if you are lying, trying to fall asleep at night. You just constantly mentally say: “I surrender; I surrender; I surrender.” Now after some time, you may have some thought that suddenly captures your attention. And it goes on for some time. But then when you become aware of it, you say again: “I surrender; I surrender”. I am not saying this is going to work for people who have not done the other things I recommended. But it can certainly work for those who have attained more clarity and purity of their four lower bodies.
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