A Silent Revolution: Internal Conversations, Thoughts & Interpretations
Our minds can be a complex function to fully grasp the inner workings of. Even more so how to wield it to our advantage.
It’s easy to get lost in ourselves, in our minds and in our thoughts. Trying to seek meaning in every sign, synchronicity and experience. Or quite the opposite, everything becoming too unbearably confusing and overwhelming, we go back to finding comfort in what we know, in what feels safe.
Example: seeing a black cat and thinking you now have bad luck versus seeing the cat as a suggestion for you to focus more on your personal power and how to use it.
It is a journey completely rewiring self, personal beliefs and the things we feel we must do. But it isn’t impossible.
EXERCISE 1: Pick your own sign or synchronicity.
Maybe you have one that you’ve already experienced or one that you want to make up. We are connecting a thought to the physical and giving it it’s own meaning:
- Number 123 representative of being on the right path
- Picking a certain animal or insect to see after asking for confirmation
- Feathers representative of guidance and protection
- so on and so forth, your imagination is the limit!
Now when you see that sign or synchronicity, you have created your own meaning and understanding of what it is that is being communicated to you and you only.
*It is important to stay open as all things are infinitely shifting. Creating indefinite labels can be limiting. This is a suggested exercise to practice shifting assumptions.
EXERCISE 2: Notice an internal dialogue, conversation or reoccurring thought you have. Whether it be:
- Physical self appearance
- Thoughts and ideas of others
- Material, money, possessions
- Love, desires, fantasies
Begin to observe your thought pattern(s). Becoming more aware of your internal conversations.
What are you thinking? How does it make you feel? How are you talking to yourself? Are you wanting to react to a feeling? Do you believe these thoughts to be true?
You do not need to answer me as you are the only one in your mind. There is no room to be performative, only radically honest with self.
Rather than attaching to any thought or feeling right away, continue to observe.
Are you feeling a rise in emotion? A desire to take action?
Take a few deep breaths.
Becoming aware our thought patterns takes much patience, mindfulness and repetition. Begin to notice how often you come back to certain conversations, ideas and thoughts. It is often surprising how many ‘default settings’ we have accepted as our own over the years.
Positive affirmations and expressing gratitude are simple ways to encourage reaffirming. Journaling and writing thoughts, dreams or daily experiences are also a great physical ways to process and reflect where you are currently at.
Continue observing your internal and external worlds as you restructure the ways you perceive within, taking notes and quieting down the mind often to listen, listen, listen. Becoming fully present through seemingly mundane day to day tasks, finding gratitude in the small moments between.
We do not need to overthink on every little thought we have but we need to be aware enough of the internal stories that we continue to reaffirm.
Through the awareness of self, we find inner peace and contentment in being. An opportunity to have faith. Believing in hope but most importantly believing in yourself beyond any expectation, creation or contribution.
Just as the tower falls completely crumbling to the ground, there is an opportunity to rebuild. An opportunity to slow down, restructure our minds and build a foundation to tell a new story.