Thought Catchers by Judith Poole Director of Pooled Resources

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Thought Catchers
by: Judith Poole, Director of Pooled Resources

What makes for Obsessive Thinking? When access to emotions is blocked, we avoid feelings in a number of ways. Obsessive thinking is a way to avoid the feelings behind the thoughts. From this perspective, every thought can be found to have an emotion behind it. (We can also work from the opposite premise, finding beliefs that drive our emotions.) Sometimes feelings are caught as they move through the environment. When they come into our energy field, they can spark thoughts that resonate with their frequency.

This technique moves the emotional energy without concern for its cause. It is thus working from an energetic rather than an analytical framework.

Thought Catcher.

Write down the thought or thoughts on the top of your head. You need not labor over this, simply listen in and record the first thoughts as they flicker through your mind. They need not be big deep thoughts. If your mind is a blank, you can use something mundane, like “I have to do the laundry.” Or just look around the room for the first thing you notice.

Next, repeat the first thought you have recorded. Drop your attention down into your torso as you silently repeat that thought. Notice where your attention lands. Focus on sensation, and on keeping your attention planted firmly within. See if you can identify the emotion behind the thought. If you “have to do the laundry” do you feel put upon, stressed, bored, elated, apathetic? Is there grief, fear, lust, anger, or pride present? If the emotion is too elusive to identify, focus on physical sensation. Do you feel tension, heaviness, movement, nervousness, fatigue? Keep your attention on the emotion or the sensation. Follow it with your attention if it moves to another location.

Your job is to bring 100% of your focus to this process. Notice if it drifts, and keep drawing more of your conscious attention inward. If other thoughts arise, redirect your mind to notice these sensations.

After a bit, the sensation you feel will intensify. Then it will begin to expand, and eventually it will dissipate. If this does not happening, you can initiate the release by asking yourself three questions as you hold your internal focus:

1. Could I let this go? (Do not think about the answer. Just say an emphatic “YES”.)

2. Would I let this go? (Again, don’t think about it. Just say “YES.”)

3. When would I let it go? (Answer “NOW.”)

You might find yourself yawning, laughing, sighing, belching, or you might just notice very subtle tingling sensations or heat or a wave of coolness. All these are signs that the energy is moving.

Repeat the process until it feels like the thought is hollow, empty of energy. Go on to the next one.

Thought Catchers help connect mind and body. Every thought vibrates at a specific frequency. Joy has a higher vibration than apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, or pride. By facilitating the release of repressed emotional energy, this process lifts one to a higher state of consciousness. The process helps get you out of a thinking loop, quieting the mind. The more you practice, the more easily your energy will respond. It can feel like an exhilarating elevator ride as you get in the habit of letting go of the heavier repressed energies.

This same method can be applied to physical pain. Just bring 100% of your attention to the pain, and repeat the three questions.

Judith Poole, Director of Pooled Resources, is a facilitator of transformation. She is a featured practitioner on www.AlternativeMedicine.com/JudithPoole. Contact: HealingPoole.com 1-866-Can Heal judith.poole@verizon.net

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