?? Right Speech to Right Thought ??

Hello, my friends!

Here is a short article on the practice of right speech, and how it naturally leads into the practice of right thought.

This piece follows from Friday's share and concludes my theoretical lecture for Week 13 of the Pathways in Consciousness course.

From here, I share the applications and practical techniques associated with this material.

For those curious about the Pathways in Consciousness course, feel free to drop a line in the comments or reach out with a personal message.

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From Right Speech to Right Thought

"It is at first pretty daunting to enter our inner wilderness.

We might want to avoid our thoughts and feelings, not look too closely at them.

It might seem like too much effort to think about it, or to be aware of what we’re thinking or saying all the time.

Like we just want to chill.

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But, when our energies are at their lowest ebb, we follow the most familiar patterns.

And we get the same results we’ve gotten thus far.

So, the more that we are willing to actively engage with our lives, our thoughts, our beings, the more that we step into our lives and our power.

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Complete self-review is a Herculean task.

Reviewing all of our personal history, all that we have learned and experienced.

Bringing all our hidden beliefs to consciousness, and then determining their value to us. Retaining if necessary.

It’s huge, but it’s not technical if you do it right.

It doesn’t require intellectual planning.

It requires presence, humility, and self-awareness.

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I had a wrestling coach in high school.

He told terrible jokes and whatnot.

And he always used to yell out, “How do you eat an elephant?”

“One spoonful at a time!”

Now, I’m not sure about the spoon, but the principle is solid.

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Right speech.

Be impeccable with your word.

Choose your words wisely.

Notice every single word that you speak.

And ask yourself where you learned this, who you learned it from, how it served you, and how it serves you now.

Reflect, and test the information that arises from within, one little bit at a time.

For utility, not Truth. We covered that. How does it serve you, as a being in relation to the world?

Strive to align each word with your values to the best of your ability, creating in resonance with what you would like to create.

(Because, as you know, every Word Creates!)

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As we practice right speech, we’ll begin to notice the thoughts that arise before they erupt into words.

Simply by practicing right speech, we have begun to develop the inner witness.

We can see the thoughts more clearly when they arise from within.

And, in the process, we begin to learn right thought.

Which is to train our minds to naturally focus on thoughts which are aligned and starve misaligned thoughts of our attention.

Retraining a bit at a time, consciously, and making it our new baseline, our new natural.

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So, this is the name of the game in this space, the space of the third eye, the dreaming and our access to the higher mind.

First, we have to clear out the crap.

Bring precision into the mental space by cultivating consciousness around our stories, and making a lifestyle of processing inner charge when it arises.

And then, as the inner space begins to clear, we can access depths of knowledge, information, and ability that are quite incredible from normal standards.

This is superhuman training, but only because humans are super when they step into their full potential.

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So, the tools that you will learn this week are all about taking our perspective in hand.

Recognizing the subconscious frame, retraining and reframing in ways that align with our values and needs.

Learning to reclaim our power from habitual and conditioned thoughts, and make our own meaning, personally, consciously, and in-tune with our lived experience.

First, we clear the way. Then we learn to tap in to the higher functions of vision and dreaming.

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I Hope you have enjoyed this snippet.

If you have any questions or thoughts, feel free to share in the comments.

Thanks and blessings, beautiful beings!