Peut-on stopper ses Pensées ?

Why are some thoughts toxic? And how to make them disappear? There are a lot of people who are interested in the fact of not thinking anymore. And there is even a myth that would consist of saying that we could not stop thinking. As if the fact of having no thought was impossible. Which means that mental zero would not exist. But the good news is that it is partially false. We can actually experience a state in which there is no thought. It's hard, we're not going to lie, to keep this state in time. But the truth is that, indeed, you can experience a mental zero. Besides, I wonder how interesting it could be for you, during the viewing of this video, to stop thinking. And there is a pretty simple way to do that, in the end. We could say that, in fact, thinking is a bit like pronouncing sentences internally. And these sentences, they have a punctuation, don't they? And what makes the punctuation, if not the silences between the sentences? The rhythm and the pronunciation sequences. There are sometimes thoughts that come in bursts. And sometimes, there are thoughts that are a little slower. And you're already experiencing that. So, in a way, there is already silence in your mind. So the question is not how to stop thinking, but how to muscle this silence. And there is a very simple way that you are going to experience now, which will allow you to experience this silence and strengthen this silence. It goes through this simple question. What will be your next thought? And if you ask yourself this question sincerely, you will see that there will be a kind of internal conflict between thinking about something and waiting to observe what is happening. It's as if, consciously, you ask yourself the question of what the next thought will be. And unconsciously, there is something in you that awaits the coming of this thought. So, consciously and unconsciously, you are experiencing a momentary silence. Maybe a little longer than the silence you would have experienced if you hadn't asked yourself this question. By the way, if you're interested, I could do a guided meditation session in which I really invite you to dive into this experience of inner silence. Leave that in the comments. Now, we agree to say that maybe, indeed, there can be a silence, but this silence is relatively ephemeral. And that to make it a more in-depth experience, you would either have to be guided more, or really train your mind. And that's where the training of the mind makes all the sense. Which raises another question, which is what is the nature of your mental hygiene? Because maybe, all day long, you allow yourself to think about everything and anything. And if that's the case, it's normal for your mind to be used to thinking a lot. If every time you think about something, you ask yourself the question of what you are thinking about, you start to worry about some of your thoughts, you will actually create mental layers that will make sure that you will always experience a thought. Sometimes, these thoughts can be anxious, and it's not definitive. It doesn't define who you are in anything. And it's very important to remember that. You are not what you think you are. What you think are simply indicators of your state of mind at the moment. What could be interesting is to develop habits that push you to experience more silence. Maybe there are some activities in your life that allow you to think less. It could be interesting to cultivate these activities. And among these activities, there is one that is particularly optimized to help the mind think less, it's meditation. Now, there is another way of seeing things. When you think about something, I told you, you are not what you think you are. But then, who is the one who thinks? That's a good question. What could be interesting is, for a few moments, to find the image that corresponds exactly to this person who thinks of you. Could it be, I don't know, a character who is talkative, who is there in your mind, and who is not you? What could this image be? And I wonder what it would do if, from now on, you realized that, in fact, you are cohabiting with a person who is sometimes pleasant, sometimes a little toxic, and who is constantly covering up the yet beneficial silence of your mind. Who could this person be? What is this metaphor? And to what extent is it important to take a little distance vis-à-vis what you think? And you may realize that, in fact, it doesn't matter to think certain things, that sometimes these thoughts are even totally illusory, as if it were someone who shared an opinion with us, with whom we do not agree. And in general, when it happens, someone gives us an idea, this idea, we don't want to take it, what do we do? We let it pass. So what would happen from the moment you imagine that the person who speaks to you sometimes offers you ideas that are not desirable, and that you could simply let go, as if it didn't interest you? And it is true that, often, the more the intensity of the emotion associated with a strong thought, the more we tend to think that this thought is true. While in fact, like all the others, by nature it is illusory, subjective. It crosses us, and it can very well go out and disappear in the silence of the mind. Why give it so much space? Why give it so much interest? Why give it so much attention if it produces a non-beneficial state? What would happen if you sat down next to this talkative character, which I like to call the little inner monkey? In English we say monkey mind, this metaphor for the monkey, always talkative, always a comment, always something to say. What would happen if you sat down next to him, and now you ask yourself the question, what will be the next thought? Wouldn't this talkative character shut up more? A bit like if you and your monkey were on a bench, watching the natural movement of the trees that follow the wind in a park. You know, those moments when you are captivated by something, when you go so deep inside that there is no more thought, there is no more space, there is no more time. We are so present with what we are doing, that all of a sudden, we actually experience a real silence. A beneficial, productive, pleasant silence. So the good news is that not only does silence exist by nature in your mind, but you also experience it many times in your life. The real question is how to muscle it, strengthen it, and the few tools I shared with you in this video should be able to help you. Now, if you want to go even further, I invite you to sign up for my private information letter, in which I will share articles, other exercises and training programs. It's the first link in the description. And if there is perhaps one very important thing to remember from this video, it is that you are not what you think. The game that thinks is only a cloud in the sky of your mind. And that may mean that you are much bigger than what you think.