The Question Nobody Asks. What Is A Thought? 💎
Hello family 💛 Happy Monday! Hope you have had an amazing start to the weekend and are feeling refreshed and restored for the new week. Here is something that came to mind that I thought would be great to share with you. It is a slight continuation from Coach Sarah's call on Saturday. Take it in and see what comes up. What I want to bring to you today is a question that most people never stop to ask. What actually is a thought. It sounds simple. Maybe even obvious. But stay with me here because the deeper you look at this the more it opens up. Here is the thing. You think thousands of thoughts every single day. You use thoughts to make decisions. To judge situations. To tell yourself stories about who you are and what is possible for you. But have you ever stopped to actually look at what a thought really is. Not what it means. Not what it says. But what it literally is. Because here is what most people miss. A thought is not the same as what it represents. Think of a photograph of someone you love. The photograph is real. You can hold it. You can look at it. But it is not the person. It is just paper with ink on it. The meaning of that photograph lives entirely in your mind. Thoughts work exactly the same way. A thought is just a sensation in your mind. A symbol. A signal. It is real in the sense that it is happening. But the meaning you attach to it. The story you build around it. That is something your mind creates on top of it. And here is where it gets really interesting. Almost all of your suffering comes from meaning. Not from reality. From the meaning your mind assigns to reality. If you are feeling anxious it is not the situation itself causing the anxiety. It is the story your mind is telling you about the situation. If you are feeling stuck it is not your life holding you back. It is the meanings you have attached to your experiences that are keeping you there. And here is the powerful part. Meanings are not fixed. They are not absolute.