Not Knowing This About Your Thoughts Hurts Your Relationships, With Yourself & Others!

David Nieves
3 min readNov 30, 2020

You don’t have to believe everything you think!

I once read “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.”

One of the biggest mistakes we make is to believe everything we think to be true. Charge this up a with emotion and we tend to be very passionate about our subjective experiences.

Let’s define a thought and a belief, and then look further into this.

Thoughts are the regurgitation of information that we have gathered from our fives senses throughout our lifetime.

A belief is a thought that we hold to be true.

Now I started this with saying..

“You don’t have to believe everything you think”

This of course is saying that the construct of the thought that you hold to be true and therefore a believe, does not serve you, or enhances your life.

For there are some believes that enhance your life.. some of these are.

  • I am loved
  • I am complete and enough
  • I am pure consciousness having a human experience

And many other thoughts that serve us…in which can lead to further levels of awareness that can take us to new dimensions of amazing experiences within our life’s. I am not referring to these.

I’m referring to the construct of the ego. An example would be a limiting Identity. A thought that we identify with and we prove to be true for us by unconscious choice.

If we break down the ego in two parts. We can say it has two parts. A thinker and a prover. What does the thinker do? It thinks. What does the prover do? It proves. The thinker, thinks, and the prover, proves.

Ego Identity works like this. I’m the type of person that doesn’t like selling. The thinker has let out a thought, now the prover has to get to work, and reinforces that thought to be a subjective truth by coming out with additional thoughts (in a form of a story most of the time) why you’re not good at selling, and why is not for you, and you should stay away from it.

This process repeats it self, in EVERYTHING we do.

So now the obvious question would be.

What are we thinking?

What are we identifying with?

Take the time to go within by practicing mindfulness of thought.

Ask yourself the most important question.

Are my thoughts serving me and taking me to a joyful experience of life, or, are they creating suffering within me?

This should be a pretty easy question to answer by being aware of the state of being that dominates our days.

Now that you have awareness of this you can begin the process of making the changes. For awareness is the beginning of change for all of us. Do not believe everything you think. Question and challenge your thoughts. Or fall to the words of Marcus Tullius Cicero when he said “Man is his own worst enemy”

Wanna talk or connect find me at..

Instagram: Evolving_David

Email: egdn05@gmail.com

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