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Hello, Conscious Flyer. This week’s article, “Thought Rescue,” goes beneath what we think to examine thought itself—and what might change when we stop treating the content of our thinking as the foundation of who we are.

It’s a provocative one, so stay with me.

In a world of consumerism I encourage you to not just consume this content in a single read but absorbe its implications through several readings. You’ll appreciate the relavance of this tip on your third read!

Thought Rescue

There was an early ’90s song by hip-hop legends Salt-N-Pepa titled “Let’s Talk About Sex” that begins with the opening salvo, “Let’s talk about sex, baby.” Well, I’m going to borrow from those iconic song lyrics and say, let’s talk about thought, baby.

Thought Before Content

Thought. Not what we think, but thought itself.

Most conversations about thought typically focus on the content of one’s thinking—well, let’s strip that back to the very reality itself. The very idea of thought.

Everything emanates from it—yes, even the engagement of sex, as sex doesn’t happen without a thought that prompts the arousal or the considerations of it.

So, let’s talk about thought, baby.

The Immutable Profile of Thought

Thought itself is quite a phenomenon. Thought itself can’t be eliminated or destroyed; thought itself doesn’t age.

Consider that the thought of a five-year-old or that of a 105-year-old is the exact same phenomenon. What those two individuals respectively think of—as stated earlier—is not the axis of this discussion.

However, the phenomenon called thought itself does not age.

Stay with me here. Trust me, I’m not navel-gazing or waxing esoterically.

Thought also doesn’t run out of its own capacity. Throughout the eons of existence, the Universe has never run out of that capacity: “Sorry, I’m all tapped out.There’s no more thought available.”

So, one could say that thought is an infinitely abundant resource. Ask anyone who’s ever suffered from a bout of insomnia.

Thought itself also can’t catch disease. We witness bodies catching disease, including the brains of those bodies, but when you really consider it, thought itself—remember, that’s our conversational axis here—does not succumb to contagion or illness.

So, let’s recap here: Thought itself can’t be extinguished, it can’t age, it can’t lack because it’s an infinite resource, and it can’t suffer contagion or illness.

I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a pretty good profile.

A phenomenon that’s immutable—sign me up.

But wait, isn’t that phenomenon the very basis of my existence? And, of course, everyone else’s? (As French philosopher Descartes famously stated, “I think, therefore I am.”)

The Brain as Conduit

There have been recent scientific articles coming to terms with the idea that the brain doesn’t originate thought but is the conduit of it (ScienceAlert: https://tinyurl.com/26adzqgz), exemplifying the autonomy of thought—that even if the organ that uses thought, the brain, is diminished, that is not a reflection on thought itself.

And here’s where I’m going with this: Since thought is the basis of existence, as all sentient beings owe their capacity to it, regardless of the level of conductivity—an earthworm, a human, or a brain suffering from dementia—then dare we fathom that this immutable profile is actually our profile?

When Thought Becomes Content

What if all our fallibility—aging, lack, succumbing to contagion and illness—were actually due to the content of thinking, since its raw wherewithal—its profile—is immutable?

This is not about proposing a so-called God complex, as that reference would reflect the content of thinking, but rather the inescapable foundation that no one can contest—that no one comes into existence without this autonomous reality profile, whether the conduit is capable or not.

So, now we can address the content of thought, having established thought’s nature prior to what we do with it—that is, the content thereof.

What if aging derives from the content of that particular kind of thinking?

What if our experiences of lack derive from that particular content of thought?

What if disease and contagion derived from that kind of content of thought?

We know thought itself is not culpable, so it must be owed to what we do with that raw material, as it were.

Deprogramming, Not Counterprogramming

This is not a case for positive thinking because “raw thought” itself is, as recognized, immutable, and if that profile informs our thinking content, then the necessity for counter positive thinking isn’t necessary.

That would be akin to adding water to correct water!

If we’re born into an immutable construct, it doesn’t need to be corrected—only reflected and extended.

In actuality, this is a case for deprogramming, not counterprogramming.

Can you, from this stripped awareness, invalidate (cancel when it arises in your mind) the thoughts of aging?

Can you invalidate the thoughts that you lack anything?

Can you invalidate the thoughts of catching an illness or succumbing to one?

Not because you’re fearful of the consequences of any of the above, but because you’ve deprogrammed from legitimizing them based on your raw profile!

The implication is that the content of your thought no longer sabotages the fundamental profile of your nature.

Sounds easy-peasy to me.

The difficulty is in daring to deprogram.

If “Thought Rescue” has you questioning which thoughts you’ve been legitimizing simply because they’ve been repeated long enough, I invite you to book a conversation with me.

We can explore what deprogramming those assumptions might look like and what changes when you begin from a different understanding of your own foundation.

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