Don't Believe Everything You Think - Joseph Nguyen

 Thanks to Aarthi for this book recommendation in this month's read and immense gratitude to Rashmi for including me into Happy Souls Club.

What an amazing and thought provoking book covering:

Chapter 1: The Journey to Finding the Root Cause of Suffering

Chapter 2: The Root Cause of All Suffering

Chapter 3: Why Do We Even Think?

Chapter 4: Thoughts vs. Thinking

Chapter 5: If We Can Only Feel What We're Thinking, Don't We Need to Think

Positively to Feel That Way?

Chapter 6: How the Human Experience is Created - The Three Principles

Chapter 7: If Thinking Is the Root Cause of Our Suffering, How Do We Stop

Thinking?

Chapter 8: How Can We Possibly Thrive In the World Without Thinking?

Chapter 9: If We Stop Thinking, What Do We Do About Our Goals, Dreams &

Ambitions?

Chapter 10: Unconditional Love & Creation

Chapter 11: What Do You Do Next after Experiencing Peace, Joy, Love &

Fulfillment In the Present?

Chapter 12: Nothing Is Either Good or Bad

Chapter 13: How Do You Know What to Do without Thinking?

Chapter 14: How to Follow Your Intuition

Chapter 15: Creating Space for Miracles

Chapter 16: What Happens When You Begin Living in Non-Thinking (Potential

Obstacles)

Chapter 17: Now What?

Summary Of Non-Thinking

A Guide to Stop Thinking

How You Will Know If You’re In A State Of Non-Thinking

A Guide To Creating A Non-Thinking Environment

Is'nt it interesting?

Book is even more.

 "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." —

William Shakespeare

All you have to do is remember that thinking is the root cause of how we’re feeling. Once this is brought into your awareness, don’t fight the thinking. Just become aware that it is your thinking that’s causing the ill feelings, welcome it with love, and it will slowly dissipate before your eyes. Not too long after, you’ll return to your natural state of peace, love, and joy.

 On a piano, there are 88 keys. When we look at a piano, we don't point out specific keys for no reason and say that that key is "wrong". We only think a specific key is "wrong", if we think someone is playing a specific song and hits a key that isn't in the song. Inherently, the piano has no wrong keys though. There are only keys and notes that sound more or less pleasant when played consecutively.

Just like how there are no wrong keys on the piano, there are no "wrong". There’s only thinking that give us pleasant or not so pleasant feelings. When we put things into a bucket of right or wrong, good or bad, this creates duality and conditions in our lives, which determines how we feel.

For instance, if we believe that that opposing political parties are wrong or bad, this can cause animosity within us and make us feel a concoction of negative emotions.

If, on the other hand, we see different political parties in the same way as there are different keys on the piano and how there are no inherently "wrong" parties, then we open ourselves up to experience love, joy, and peace in the moment.

 Instead of looking for right or wrong, good or bad in the world, look for truth. Instead of trying to prove we are right and they are wrong, or how they're better and we're worse, look for the truth in what's in front of you. I would only caution this by saying that many people believe what they think is the truth. For the most part, without this deeper understanding of life, most of what we think is not truth, even though it may seem like it.

True truth is not subjective. If it is "true" for one person, but not for another, then it is not universal truth. Look for what is universally true for every single conscious human being on the planet, no matter who they are, where they're from, and what their background is. That is the true truth and that is where you'll find everything you've been searching for. Remember that the only place you can find this is deep within your being, so don't try to go looking for it outside of you.

 The truth is most of us know what to do, but we are just afraid to do it.

Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think that you can or can’t, you’re right.” If we walk around our lives thinking we can’t, then we immediately block ourselves from the limitless possibilities of what we can do in any given moment in time. But when we release the brake in our mind and realize that it’s just our thinking holding us back, we automatically return to our natural state of abundance and unlimited possibilities and in that moment, we can receive any answer we need on what to do.

In short, know that you already know and if you don’t know, know that you can know what you need to know.

If you know that you can always know, then what you need to know will always come to you. Trust in your own intuition and inner wisdom. It has always and will always be there for you when you need it as long as you trust that it will.

 This state of non-thinking also means a directconnection to Infinite Intelligence. The state of flow, that we need to be in.

Many will attribute the state of non-thinking or flow with a particular activity that we love to do and that’s the only time we can be in flow. This is far from the truth. We can be in a state of nonthinking at any point in time. The only time we can really be in a state of non-thinking is in the present moment. We can only see reality in the present moment and when we are actively thinking, it means we are either in the past or future (which don’t exist). Only in the present moment can the truth be found. This is why all of the spiritual masters and leaders always teach to meditate, pray, and to be in the present moment. In the Bible, when Moses asks God her name, She replies with “I am.” God didn’t say that She was or will be

When you’re following your intuition, you’re completely tapped into something greater than your personal self. You’re in a state of nonthinking (flow) and direct connection with God. In this state, you always know what you need to do without thinking and are guided by

Infinite Intelligence. It almost seems like we’re not doing anything when we’re in this zone because we lose our sense of personal self and become one with life. When we’re in this state, miracles occur.

SUMMARY OF NON-THINKING

Thinking is the root cause of all suffering.

There is no other answer to why we feel negative emotions other than that it is from our own thinking. 

Everything can be traced back to our thinking, which makes problem solving very simple. Once we realize that our thinking is causing how we feel, we can let go of it and we return to our natural state of peace, love, and joy. When we let go of our thinking, it creates space for us to be able to allow all positive emotions we want to feel to surface from within us.

We don’t live in reality, we live in a PERCEPTION of reality, which is created by our own thinking.

Thinking is NOT an effect of our experiences, but the CAUSE of it.

The thoughts in our minds are not facts.

Our thinking only has control over us if we believe it. 

Let go of the belief in the thought to let go of the suffering.

Our feelings are direct feedback and an innate internal guidance system to let us know whether we are lacking understanding or have absolute clarity of truth. Feelings are an invitation to deepen our understanding of the truth.

We are in flow when we are not thinking.

There is no separation between us and the Universe and all of life when we are not thinking. It is only when we think that we cut ourselves from Source and feel separate from all things (the birth of the ego).

Thinking and thoughts are two different things. Thinking is a verb and requires our manual effort, which causes suffering. Thoughts are nouns, which do not come from us and are divine downloads from the Universe.

We think because it is a biological response to survive.

Our minds think only because it is trying to keep us alive, but it does not help us thrive. It is only concerned with our safety and survival, but not our fulfillment. Thinking holds us back from our Highest Selves by causing negative feelings within us that prevent us from following our true callings.

Our minds are limited to our personal experiences. If you want to receive insights, creativity, and knowledge beyond the capabilities of your current self, simply choose to listen to Infinite Intelligence rather than your finite mind. This infinite source of truth is available to all people at all times if we allow it to be.

Universal Intelligence/Mind is the energy that is everything in this universe. It is the source of where everything comes from that is before form and we are made up of it. This energy has a feeling, which is the feeling is love, peace, joy, connection, and well-being. This is what we fall back into when we let go of our thinking and it is our natural state.

Since we are all always connected to the same source of Infinite Intelligence, once we let go of our thinking, we access new thoughts, ideas, and insights, even if we have never experienced them before. The more we trust our intuition and this Infinite Intelligence, the more we will receive these insights that are always available to us.

Peace, love, joy, and all positive emotions are our default states as humans. It is only when we begin thinking, then we get taken out of that natural state. Once we let go of our thinking, we fall back into our natural state of being and experience all positive feelings effortlessly.

We are ever only one thought or one insight away from expanding our consciousness and experiencing a deeper feeling of love at all times, which comes from a state of non-thinking.

Clarity is the nature of our minds and our default state. It is only when we get caught up in our thinking that things do not seem so. If we let go of our thinking, we return to our “factory default” setting of peace, love, joy, and a quiet mind.

There is nothing inherently wrong with anyone or anything in the Universe, but our thinking will make us think so. You do not have to be fixed because you are not broken. There is only something for you to realize and remember, which is that thinking is the root cause of our suffering. You do not have to do anything about your thinking. All you have to do is shift your understanding of thinking and you will fall back into the truth of who you are, which is beyond your thinking, your body, and everything you think you know. As soon as you let go of your thinking, you become one with Infinite Intelligence, allowing you to feel a never-ending abundance of love, peace, and joy that is always available to you because that is your true nature.

When you make space for Infinite Intelligence, it makes space for you. The more you trust it, the more it trusts you.

There’s never an end to how much space you can make for it. When you prioritize making space in your life and in your mind for Infinite intelligence to come through, your life will change.

Here’s the process for receiving divine downloads when you’re confronted with a challenge:

1. Become aware that your thinking is the root cause of all negative emotions.

2. Create space by surrendering any manual thinking from the personal mind and have complete faith that your inner wisdom (God/Universe/Infinite Intelligence) will give you the answer. Also surrender the how and when the answer will come to you.

3. Become aware of any feelings that arise as you surrender and magnify those feelings of love, peace, and joy. Meet what you’re facing with love and the answer will come to you.

If it seems almost too simple, that’s a good thing. The truth is always simple. Although it may be simple, it’s not always easy and even the greatest spiritual masters struggle at times.

Bonus was interacting and email exchange with the author:

I emailed author asking if he wrote the book without Thinking 🤔

To this: For anyone that is interested in connecting with me even further, I

would love to hear from you at hello@josephnguyen.org about

anything and everything. It brings me such a deep feeling of joy to

hear other people's stories, so I do keep my inbox open for those

who would like to share. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

With Love & Light,

Joseph