The Thought Police
One thing that I've noticed about this huge matrix of interconnectedness (we call it experience/life) is that certain reflections come across your path exactly when you need them to. It never fails...whether they are characters who affirm your faith or tempt it, they are always there exactly when you need them to be.
Among all of these possible "meetings" there are those reflections I like to call the Thought Police. These are the reflections of yourself that specifically try to knock you down. Whether it be your way of life, your style of dress, your spiritual or religious beliefs, or even just your existence...these are the reflections that want to make you feel worse just because you're feeling better. They want you to think.
I say that these "people" are reflections because that's what they are...they are the physical representation of those thoughts that we are all so very used to hearing. The thoughts of doubt, regret, shame, and fear...these thoughts are in the flow and are therefore wandering about the world as living beings.
The problem here is that we immediately seek to judge these reflections...we want to label them as mean, angry, or bitter and then toss them into our "not worth thinking about" pile. But we can't...we can't because, whether we like it or not, these "people" are still Me. They are still there to show you a part of yourself.
The funny part about all of this is that these reflections only have a negative affect if we react to them. Once we react to them we start thinking (doubting) and their job is complete. But what if we truly just look at them...see them for what they are and take a different lesson from the meeting? Perhaps recognize your doubt and realize that you can face it without reacting? Rather than let this situation hurt you, let it raise you up...let it reinforce the knowledge that you can let these thoughts go without worrying about them. Build strength from the Thought Police...
Just like the thoughts of doubt and fear...I don't have to let them affect me.
This is also true for their physical reflections.
Bless the Thought Police for reminding me of my own strength.
posted by Forgetful God @ 11:32 AM
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This passage has reminded me of my own stregnth... does that make YOU an officer with the Thought Police?
Mirror mirror on the cave.....
... tell me how and how not to behave.
I sometimes get these thoughts in my head that try to knock me down or cause me to doubt myself. I guess it's just my ego putting up a fight. It wants me to lose myself in thought because that is how it feeds.
Looking at things from this perspective, it really makes no sense at all to judge/condemn/hate/whatever those around us who we believe cause us problems. It seems ridiculous, really...to have a part of us revealed in physical form and then we condemn it for whatever it is we don't like about it!
It really is all about self-acceptance then, isn't it?
In the end it is entirely about self-acceptance. This is the part I always find so mind-numbingly humorous....we're trying to accept what we ALREADY are.
How can you go through a process to accept the self? Aren't you already your self? Ha!
We create a process, we create images we "choose" not to like, we even create "questions" just to avoid realizing that we are already what we are "trying" to be.
We've already accepted ourselves, we just keep trying to avoid realizing it.
Thanks for the heads up to watch, 'What the bleep do we know?'
Thanks x
Excellent article! I love your thoughts on the thought police. Very true. These thought police are a manifestation of our own deep thoughts, our fears, our doubts. We do in fact have a choice on how we deal with these people. Great writing!
Emerging Archetype donning garbs of thought again. Just my $0.02
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