Where would you be without oxygen?

I can pretty much guarantee that you wouldn’t be reading this without it.

Oxygen fuels your life.

Oxygen is also the primary fuel for fire. If you want to put out a fire, starve it of oxygen and soon enough it will be gone.

You can consider the thoughts you have as mini fires, and your awareness of them and willingness to ruminate on them as the oxygen they need to stay alive.  The difference between oxygen and your awareness is that oxygen doesn’t discriminate, it’s readily abundant. However, when it comes to your awareness, you can choose where you want to direct it.

If this sounds unreasonable to you, it’s because you’ve chosen to empower, or fuel the idea that it’s unreasonable. And over time the idea of unreasonableness has taken root and you’ve fed it the oxygen it’s needed to stay alive.

You can choose to suspend any belief or thought you have by not feeding it. By not giving it the energy it needs to survive. If you practice this, you’ll find that soon enough the thoughts and beliefs you choose to eliminate will go dormant, notice that I said dormant and not dead. They’ll never quite disappear; in fact they’ll be just waiting for that moment of weakness when you’ll supply them with the energy they need to come alive again.

Your thinking patterns have becomes grooves in your mind because you’ve been feeding them all the oxygen they need. If they’re not serving you, then stop fueling them. Stop giving them the oxygen they need to survive. Again, if you don’t believe this is possible, then keep feeding this thought, watch it continue to flourish and prove you right.

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