How To Quiet The Noisy Mind

In this talk, David and Cody explore the topic of how to quiet all the noise in our heads. They explore why the mind becomes so loud, how to create space between your thoughts, and techniques to return to clarity and calm. If your inner dialogue feels overwhelming or nonstop, this conversation offers insight, tools, and a powerful guided meditation to help you quiet mental noise and reconnect with your intuitive awareness.

Transcript

Welcome back.

Today's topic is quieting the noisy mind.

But I think we want to approach it from the perspective of the energy work that we do,

Right?

So if you want to release some energy,

If you want to learn to see your answers to see energy,

You have to have a relatively quiet mind and grounded space and energy,

Right?

And so when we start doing intuitive training kind of energy work,

We often one of the first things we learn is how to clear the noise out of our heads and how to center ourselves in our heads,

Which Cody,

I think you're going to guide us at the end in a meditation.

We'll do a little meditation on that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And from an energetic perspective,

Maybe we could start by just discussing what is all the noise in our heads?

What is that experience like?

How do we recognize it?

And how do we release it?

And is it all just do you have multiple personality disorder?

And is it all you?

Is it noise from the external world?

Is it a mix?

Yeah,

The interesting thing about this topic,

To me,

Or one of the things is in the sense of meditation.

When I talk to people,

And I've talked to people over the years,

And we talk about meditation,

They say,

I can't meditate because I can't stop thinking.

I can't quiet the noisy mind.

And it almost says if that's a prerequisite to starting to be able to meditate.

And I think we have a little different perspective on that.

When we start to talk about energy work and seeing,

We do work on clearing the energy out of our heads.

And we do work towards maybe having a bit of a quieter mind.

But a lot of what we do is not quieting it to nothingness.

It's starting to direct our attention,

Starting to direct what we're kind of doing with our energy and our mind into something.

And that's a very different movement than just sitting there and trying to quiet the mind and have nothing happen.

That's impossible.

But you can certainly focus your mind on noticing energy and becoming aware of it,

Getting centered and grounded and doing things.

And that,

To me,

Takes the place of a shift from just thinking into a different perspective or place of seeing and being aware from.

Otherwise,

Most of our awareness is just thought.

And it can be overthinking,

It can be problem solving,

It can be self-criticizing,

It can be all kinds of things.

But that's a very different kind of state of awareness than energy awareness,

Where we're starting to see things and get input,

Read them,

Which may come in the form of thought,

But it's a very directed type of a space,

Not just a nothingness.

And if you want to see things clearly,

You have to be able to see through the noise.

And a lot of times when people start on this intuitive journey,

All they get is all the noise and like,

I can't see an image or I can't see clearly,

There's just too much noise.

And so we do have to start out with a foundation of getting still and relaxed and releasing.

We can release some of the external noise.

I think if you sit and meditate daily,

And you have a solid practice,

Some of the noise will subside,

For sure,

Not all of it.

But I do think you can get to like a baseline of a more stable,

Relaxed mind and space.

And then from there,

Some of the noise might actually be useful.

You might go,

Oh,

There's a family member in my head,

Or there's an energy that I've been struggling with,

I'm ruminating on that actually might need some of my attention.

And there's energy that's manifesting here.

It might be manifesting as images or mental noise,

But it's actually relevant.

And I need to take a look at it and sit with it.

So there's many,

You know,

Grades and kinds of noise.

Sometimes we have an inner voice of our screaming for attention.

And it needs attention.

And other times it's just junk from social media or coming from the outside.

There is that whole aspect as well of taking in information and energy from the external world.

A lot of the time we think when we're thinking that every thought we have is our own,

We don't realize a lot of that energy comes from the outside.

Just like as an empath,

Sometimes what you feel aren't your feelings.

You're feeling feelings and energy that you're bringing in from the external world.

But because you're feeling them in your body,

You naturally think,

Oh,

These are my feelings.

This is where most empaths get stuck,

Is feeling the world,

Thinking everybody's pain.

Can't tell.

Same with thought.

Same with thought.

And I like what you said about the thought and the noise.

It can be overwhelming and noisy,

But that doesn't mean it all isn't relevant.

Discernment is basically what we start to move towards when we get into a place of seeing energy.

We start to be able to tell the difference between what is something I need to interact with or get a little more information about,

And what is something that just is noise,

Is totally irrelevant to me.

And we might do that at an emotional level as we come out of being kind of caught in the clairsentient ability,

And we move to seeing,

And we do that at a mental level as well.

Oh,

I think I froze,

Or you froze?

You did freeze.

One of us froze,

Yeah.

So at some point,

We should do a whole thing on telepathy and explore that whole realm.

That would be really fun.

I know from my own experience meditating over the years that,

Yes,

The noise never goes away because sometimes we're just digesting energy,

Information,

And feelings,

And some of those bubble up.

An emotion or a feeling will bubble up like a bubble in water to the top,

And then it'll form into a thought.

So you might have just a sensation or a feeling that will then form into a thought like,

That's itchy.

I don't like this.

It's hot.

I want to go that way.

Why'd she say that?

And it turns into thought.

So the thought of thought is the body coming into consciousness in the form of thought or in the form of an image.

And then as that gets complex,

We have an idea,

We might have a principle,

We might build an entire philosophy,

A belief system,

And a worldview.

So when we chain a bunch of thoughts together and they start to make sense to us,

That creates how we frame and perceive the world,

For better and for worse.

It gives us stability,

A direction in life,

Right?

If you have a belief system,

A standard of ethics and behavior,

And it can also imprison you like religion and politics do for people.

You start to over-identify with these complex beliefs that are made up of thoughts,

And then you see the world through this incredible filter.

And that is probably the cause of almost all human confrontation and violence and suffering and pain is different people's complex thoughts turn into beliefs,

Worldviews clashing.

But really,

Internally,

It's consciousness looking through a bunch of pictures out at the world and a bunch of filters and identifying with those.

And the most extreme of that would be like someone willing to blow themselves up for what they believe.

They believe the picture,

Their belief in their head so much that they'll give up their life.

All right?

Or if you want to induce someone to do that,

You brainwash them over time,

Be more patriotic,

Whatever it is,

You know,

To the point where they become so emotional,

And they believe it so deeply and identify their identity completely with that thought,

With that belief system.

And that's what you see mostly in the media and in the world is these complex thought structures fighting with each other.

And at a certain point,

We call those egos.

An ego is a bunch of those thought structures that come together to form an identity.

And so my identity is everything I believe combined.

And don't you dare challenge that,

Cody.

Okay?

Yeah.

You got some wacky beliefs.

Yeah.

Yes.

And that's conflict,

Isn't it?

So how do we as energy workers,

As meditators,

Maybe awaken out of that,

Release some of that energy so we can get clear answers and see the world with less of a filter or a bias?

Yeah.

I wonder,

You know,

As you talk about that,

I wonder how much,

As we move,

Say,

Into being energy workers or meditators,

How much,

Like,

Normally we are processing all the input,

All that emotion,

All that information that's in us through thought.

And as we start to become meditators and start to move into a place of looking,

We start to process so much of that from that state.

And so then the thinking lessens.

Because I have found over time of meditating,

Working energy,

That the thinking just lessened kind of on its own.

It's not like I attacked it as a thing to evolve.

It just moved from being a very noisy mind to being a mind that could be focused on a question and hold that.

And that's like the whole thing,

The whole thought,

Or focused on looking at something.

And that becomes the whole experience.

But there was an aspect of that that seems like it was quite natural with the practice.

So you work through energy,

Right?

And certain energy sticks to us for certain reasons.

So not all noise sticks in our head,

Right?

Everyone is susceptible to certain kinds of noise more easily,

Just like an empath is more susceptible to certain people's pain in their life or certain kinds of pain,

Right?

And so you become aware as a meditator what kind of noise seems to come in and stick easily,

And then ask the question,

Why?

Why is there such a nice landing pad for this certain kind of mental energy?

And usually underneath that,

There's some kind of pattern,

Belief,

Some kind of pain that needs attention.

I often look at the noise as something that's energy that needs attention versus trying to push it away,

Or force the volume knob down so that there's no noise.

What do a lot of people do instead?

They medicate,

Sleeping pills,

Avoid,

Overreact,

All sorts of ways to not sit with and face the noise,

Right?

Addiction.

I think a lot of addiction is trying to quiet that noise inside of us that's saying,

Hey,

There's some pain here that needs attention.

But a good meditator will face that noise and sit with it and go,

What are you?

Where are you coming from?

And then it'll subside as you work through some of those layers.

Maybe one of the biggest ailments in the human species right now and causes of suffering is mental noise.

That's at the very top of the list.

True.

That leads to anxiousness,

Anxiety,

All kinds of things.

I think that there's that aspect you were just talking about,

That you confront the noise.

Also,

Over time in meditating,

You start to disengage.

Maybe one of the questions is,

What caused me to engage with that noise as a conversation?

In my head,

What caused me to start to argue with it or try to change it or make it different versus just recognize it and then let it go?

That noise is there or that telepathic input is there.

I don't need to jump into that conversation.

Then you start to release it as you disengage from having to have some kind of interaction or input with it.

A lot of students that take our class are empaths,

And so they're used to this experience on a feeling level.

But there's a very similar dynamic happening on a mental level.

You can be an empath who feels and then all that turns into noise,

Or vice versa.

You might be very telepathic or open.

Your mind is so open,

You just absorb so much noise from the world,

And then it turns into feelings.

Like,

I feel anxious.

I feel stressed.

I feel like I never want to go outside because all of that noise is so painful.

If you are a sensitive being,

Then the mental noise of the world can be very intense and painful.

It's like,

Oh,

This is too much.

A lot of people either override that or run away from it,

Or they just live with it and never really feel at peace.

I can't honestly say I know that many people that are really calm and at peace inside themselves and are not struggling with all of that mental noise or just consider it normal.

And then what happens is you start talking to yourself out loud,

And the mental noise becomes so intrusive that it starts verbalizing.

I've done it,

We've all done it,

But I've seen it happen.

Eckhart Tolle shares this story of watching this man talking to himself on the trainer bus,

And then he follows him into a building.

Turns out he was some professor maybe,

And he had mental noise like everyone else.

It got so loud,

It just started externalizing.

And so it's like the noise is spilling out.

It just starts spilling.

It starts spilling out.

And if we don't learn how to rein it in and deal with it,

Then we're never going to be able to be connected to our energy and find our answers,

Because there's just too much.

It's like this,

What's the word?

Like,

You know,

When the old TVs,

You'd have to hit them.

It would just be that black and white.

Too much static.

Yeah.

Thank you.

All that static in the head.

And good luck,

You know,

Making your way through life through that cloud of static.

So how do we as meditators close our eyes,

Become aware of the noise,

Recognize it,

Learn how to release it,

And then,

You know,

Really be present?

That is what I think one of the great spiritual practices,

Journeys,

And challenges of like our generation of human beings.

I don't think it was in the past as much when people lived in small groups in the forest or in caves,

Or,

You know,

Before maybe we were very verbal as a species.

I don't know if it will be in the far future.

But at the moment,

We have this massive epidemic of mental noise.

And I heard one teacher say,

Intention deficit disorder.

So not just attention deficit disorder,

But intention deficit disorder,

Because there's so much noise,

We can't focus enough to lay down paths and an intention.

I think once we just let AI do all of our thinking,

Then we'll have no noise,

Because we won't have anything to think about.

That's like two years away.

Now,

Then we'll just be thinking about how anxious we are,

That we gave our power away to AI.

Yeah,

You know,

It is interesting when we're talking about noise,

Because we're talking about noise in the head.

But that doesn't mean the source is just in your head.

Like,

When someone comes into our training,

And we teach them how to turn down that empathy part,

Turn down the clairsentience,

Very often the comment that we get is,

Oh,

Wow,

It's so quiet,

All of a sudden.

So all the noise that they were in,

And experiencing,

Or a good portion of it was coming not from their head,

It was coming from the energy they were experiencing through their clairsentience.

Sometimes we can be in a lot of noise that is manifesting as just thoughts in our head,

But it actually originated as an energy that we were experiencing in some other aspect of ourselves.

And it just ends up,

We're trying to process it in our head.

Instead of from a meditative energy standpoint,

We would process it directly as energy and recognize it.

Oh,

This is an energy.

Oh,

This isn't mine,

I can let go of it.

Or,

Oh,

This is mine,

There's an answer in it for me.

So we move into a very different place of processing.

Yeah,

I'll do that meditating.

If there's noise,

I will kind of trace it back to the feeling.

So there's a mental image that we just get over-identified with,

Or it's charged like a particle,

Like a charged particle.

It might be charged with pain,

Or some form of energy,

And we get caught in it.

We can't seem to release it,

Work through it,

See the world without that filter.

We all have them.

We learn how to work through these pictures.

Maybe there's a picture that you're not good enough,

And there's a picture that there's not enough time.

Maybe there's a picture that the world is unfair,

Or that there's a picture that nobody loves you.

So there's the idea,

There's the belief,

There's the feeling that you might have.

I feel nobody loves me.

I believe it.

And then there's also possibly an image somewhere in your consciousness,

Deep in the unconscious.

Maybe it's a memory,

Or it's a manufactured image,

And it has a charge to it.

And so you can get stuck on that picture,

As we would say in intuitive training.

Nobody loves me.

And sometimes I see it float around a person,

Almost like the moon around the earth.

It has an orbit.

Every once in a while,

It makes its way back,

Every few hours,

Or every few days,

And just reminds you nobody loves you.

Did I hear something?

Was that here?

And then it comes back a few days later.

Nobody loves you.

And then another one comes up.

You're not good at this.

Yeah.

Like satellites all over the earth.

They just,

You know,

They come around.

And what people who are,

You know,

Judgmental,

Whether they do it consciously or unconsciously,

They know which pictures you have,

You know,

They can sense it.

And then they,

As we say in intuitive training,

They poke them.

So if you have an insecurity around not being loved,

And somebody's judgmental,

Maybe they come around,

They just stick their finger in one of those images.

And it's like,

Ow!

They go,

So you're not loved,

Huh?

And they just kind of,

As we would say,

Press your button.

But what they're doing is pressing on your picture.

And if you work through that picture,

And you release it,

Then there's nothing to be pressed on.

And that's how we become free of all of the energy that controls us and puts us into suffering.

When we work through these images,

And we really heal them and release them,

Then there's nothing for the world or an individual to press on.

And as you know,

Most relationships,

Intimate or otherwise,

It's two people pressing on their pictures.

You said that,

You did this,

You're not good enough now,

What,

Remember two years ago,

Hit the buttons.

But as meditators,

We learn how to identify,

Oh,

There's a picture here,

That's the charge on it,

And then work through it.

We also learn how to see those in others,

Sometimes even maybe another way to think of it or look at it is like post-its.

You might like see,

Sometimes you'll see like a post-it on somebody's energy field.

There's nice ones.

There's not nice ones.

There's neutral ones.

There's ones the world put on them.

There's ones they put on themselves,

Their family put on them.

Or some of them,

You have 100 of the same genre.

You got a whole section of that kind.

And much of the noise in that scenario is,

It's not even the picture itself.

It's that we start to kind of argue with it or start to have thoughts relative to countering it.

So it's a reaction to the picture that creates the noise.

The noise itself or the picture itself is just that,

It's got a charge on it.

And it just says like,

You're not good enough.

But then if I hit that,

I might either a part,

There's a voice that agrees.

And so I get real self-critical or there's a voice that doesn't agree.

So I start to argue with whatever caused that picture to get lit up with the person.

And that generates a tremendous amount of thought and kind of noise in our head.

And the funny thing is,

That kind of noise never resolves it.

That argument never resolves it.

The way we resolve it is,

We start to see it for what it is.

Oh,

This is a picture.

And we start to take the charge out of it and in a sense,

Dis-identify with it.

Because identifying with it doesn't necessarily mean,

Oh,

I like it.

It just means,

Oh,

I think it's me.

So now I have to fight against it because it's part of my identity.

But once we take that step to learn how to recognize those kinds of things and de-energize them,

And they don't have that power,

Like you say,

Then you're free.

That's how you get free of being affected by energies.

And someone was asking,

Are the pictures the triggers themselves?

The pictures are what get triggered,

Right?

So yes,

I have a picture floating around.

I'm not good enough.

And then somebody presses on it like a button.

It's the way in for energy.

So if you don't have,

Let's say,

You're very,

Very comfortable accepting of who you are.

You've worked through mountains of invalidation,

Rejection,

Lack of self-love,

Whatever it is,

And you've really come to a healing place.

And you've worked through a lot those memories,

Traumas,

Pictures,

Whatever they are.

Then if somebody comes around and criticizes you,

You're not worth two cents.

It might just pass right through you,

Right?

Like if I came up to the Buddha and was like,

You're not a good teacher,

He might just be like,

Okay.

Versus if you've been sitting with a picture of like,

Man,

I'm not freaking good enough at something.

And then someone says something,

That thing gets lit up like one of the bulbs on a Christmas tree,

You know,

Like a light,

Bing.

And that's when you get what you call triggered,

Like,

Oh,

How could they said that about me?

You know,

And that whole thing starts.

And either,

So then you either externalize the response towards someone else,

Screw them,

They're wrong,

I hate them,

They're mean,

Or you internalize it,

They're right,

I'm bad,

I'm not good enough.

And I'm revalidating that picture.

So you can reject the picture,

Or you can accept it in both ways.

It's not helpful,

Because it's still there.

You have to learn how to actually look at it through the illusion and get to the other side.

Yeah.

Yeah,

Both ways you're not free or controlling your energy.

It's being directed by that picture,

Whether you're rejecting it or accepting it.

And the world is very accommodating.

If you have a picture that says I'm not good enough,

And you go out in the world,

Someone will agree with that and tell you you're not good enough.

The world seeks to validate whatever you got going on.

Yeah.

And to add to that,

You'll attract people with either the same pictures as you or the opposite.

Like particles,

Opposites attract,

As they would say.

So either someone to trigger it,

Or someone to validate it.

So either way,

If you have very strong images that are created from thoughts and beliefs,

As we mentioned earlier,

They will start to create the reality around you.

And we've talked about this before,

But what we see happening a lot in spirituality is instead of working through my pictures or my energy,

I'm just going to create a new one,

Which is I'm abundant,

I can manifest what I want,

I'm pure love,

Whatever it is,

I'm rich,

Right?

So the person is not working through their pictures,

They're just creating a new one.

And then they're pumping energy into it and plastering it all over the world to the point where maybe they're physically putting it out in the world.

Like here's my whole Instagram is me being abundant,

Or me being happy.

They're literally placing pictures out into the world,

Look at my pictures,

Look at my pictures,

This is who I am,

This is who I am.

But if they don't work through their actual pictures,

They're not really abundant,

They're trying to override the other pictures that say they're not abundant.

So if I'm forcing a picture,

It's probably because I feel the opposite is true.

If I have to 10,

000 times say I'm abundant,

It's probably because I feel not abundant,

Right?

If somebody is truly in abundance,

They're not screaming to the world,

I'm abundant.

What they're doing is trying to create new pictures versus work through them and be free energetically.

So I think there's a kind of confusion in spirituality there between those two things.

And I just wanted to mention that and clarify it.

It's a good point to clarify because we do teach how to create pictures that you want to work toward or bring into your life or create something.

But a lot of our focus is on working through these levels of picture,

Which ultimately is thought and mental noise that hold us back in some way or keep us stuck in some way.

Because regardless of how much you create those new pictures,

That the real picture that you have,

That you're trying to override,

Will always win out.

It will always get triggered,

And it has more force until we've processed it,

Because it's in us versus something we're projecting out in the world.

So we have to work those inner pictures or energies that put us into whatever that space is that I'm not good enough,

Or I can't have anything,

Or I'm not worth having anything,

Or nobody will like me.

If we don't work through those,

It doesn't matter what we create on the outside.

When those get stimulated,

They will override whatever we've created,

Because they have all the charge.

Sometimes when Cody's sleeping,

I energetically just put a bunch of those pictures in his aura,

Just like whenever I wanted to screw with him the next day,

And I place them in there.

I found that.

You're a jelly bean.

Yeah,

I wake up in the morning,

Why do I have this desire for jelly beans for breakfast?

So maybe one other way we could frame the mental noise,

And then Cody could do a meditation with we'll do a Q&A quickly,

And then meditation.

But the way I like to think of thoughts forming,

When you learn how to read books,

You start with a letter,

You learn the alphabet,

Then you string letters together that make words,

Words that make sentences,

Sentences,

Paragraphs,

Paragraphs,

Pages,

Chapters,

Book volumes.

So it's similar in my experience with thoughts.

You can have an individual thought,

And then you can have a string of thoughts,

It might turn into an idea or a concept,

A more complex version,

A principle,

A philosophy,

An ethic,

A belief structure.

And so maybe as a meditator,

You could just start to notice the simplicity and the complexity of some of the thoughts that you're having,

And how many of them are really basic,

Just popping in and out,

Versus how,

You know,

The really good creative ones are needles in a haystack.

You know,

The vast majority of thoughts that we have are very basic and repetitive.

And they usually have to do with survival.

I'm going to be late,

I'm hungry,

That's dangerous,

You know,

So they bubble up,

And then the next level could be more emotionally complex.

And then eventually,

We get to the more creative,

Spiritual,

Bigger thinking stuff.

But the majority are that just like repetitive body level stuff.

So as you start meditating,

And you sit still,

If you sit still for 20 or so minutes and meditate,

Some of the baseline noise will subside.

And then you can get to some of the more complex stuff.

And as thoughts become more complicated,

Eventually,

They do form into these mental images that we're talking about,

Or even feelings will come up and form into mental images.

And that's where the fun part of reading energy comes in,

When you start seeing mental images.

And we can also have a spiritual vision.

So there's a quality of picture,

That not all pictures are bad,

I don't want to make it seem like me and Cody are saying all pictures are bad in some way,

Because you can have a very clear image that gets downloaded from the universe,

Your higher self,

Wherever it is.

And it's a clear vision for your life or for humanity,

That's really special and beautiful.

But to get to something creative or spiritually inspiring,

You might have to get through it,

Find that needle in the haystack by getting through some of that layer,

Those layers of noise and pain.

So that is at the foundation,

What we do as meditators.

And then when it gets really interesting as readers,

We start to learn to read images and the energies around the images in ourselves or in others.

And that's what I find so fun and fascinating.

There's nothing better than that.

Yeah,

And certainly all pictures aren't bad.

I think when we're talking about clearing out noise,

Much of what it is,

Is that those pictures aren't ours.

We got them from somewhere,

There's somebody else's belief,

There's somebody else's opinion,

Somebody else's judgment that we took in.

And then that becomes very noisy,

Because we're having to then reconcile all that energy that's not ours.

So when we're meditating and clearing out energy,

What we're moving toward is discovering our own pictures,

Our own thoughts,

Our own information,

If you will,

Our own spiritual insight.

Yeah.

Cody,

Someone was saying,

Correcting me earlier,

It's not from the telepathy tapes,

Nonverbal autistic kids or neuroatypical autism.

I'll have to listen to more of it.

I don't really have a theory.

I haven't listened to it yet.

So I have to listen to it.

For whatever reason,

These kids,

Their minds work differently.

Maybe there's less mental noise.

They're more tapped in.

And so they can do this nonverbal communication better than the rest of us.

I think we all have it.

I wonder if it's something akin to when someone is blind,

They can feel and hear better.

Yeah.

Because we all do have telepathy.

I'm sure most people have a story where they've experienced it in some way,

At least most people pursuing this kind of work.

And to have those types of stories where something happened,

And it was just like,

Wait,

What?

This had to be happening on some other level than the physical and verbal.

Even the experience of thinking of someone,

And then they call.

We experience their energy and attention.

Maybe there's a little telepathy as they put their attention on us.

And we receive that before we receive the phone call.

That's a very common psychic experience with energy.

Yeah.

Very brief story.

I had a friend also named David years ago when I lived in Hawaii.

I hadn't spoken to him in months.

And it was a Friday afternoon or midday.

And I just had this thought in my head.

It arose out of nowhere,

Which is always a telltale sign.

Where'd you come from?

Almost like a surprise thought.

And I was like,

Call David.

So I called him.

I was like,

Hey,

Man,

It's been a long time.

Are you okay?

And he's like,

No,

I need to go to the hospital right now.

Can you pick me up?

And he hit the hospital.

And I just,

It pinged in my head.

I picked him up in five minutes.

We got there and it turned out he had one of the first cases of dengue fever in Hawaii.

And they spent hours,

These doctors,

They could not figure out why he was so sick.

They couldn't.

And then eventually it was in the news and it spread across the island.

But he was like the first or one of the first cases.

And it was,

I was just sitting there twiddling my thumbs,

Call David.

And so we do,

We'll have those like pings,

But we have to learn how to listen to those pings.

That's part of that process.

If you don't listen,

They don't come back as much.

It's my experience.

So the more you open up and go,

Oh,

I will validate that.

The more your system,

Whatever it is,

Is okay.

He's listening.

So here it is again and again.

And I just remember we were,

We were pulled over by the cops.

I was driving so fast to the hospital and I was like,

He's sick.

And it's Hawaii.

So the guy's like,

Go on,

Brother,

Go.

It was wild.

How in the world do you get dungay fever?

I don't know how it got to me.

That's bad.

It was very bad.

I had to take care of him for a while.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

I love Cody.

Oh,

Real quick,

Before we go into meditation,

Any,

We have a lot of comments,

Any questions before we jump in?

Any other questions?

Oh,

I wanted to comment before we jumped.

I wanted to comment on,

You were talking about how repetitive thought,

How much we thought is repetitive.

And I was trying to remember,

But I heard somewhere that it's something like 80 to 90% of thought is repetitive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's north of 90% that it is repetitive.

I did a little research on this.

There used to be a commonly thought figure that would have a thousand thoughts a day,

But then it actually could be much less than that.

But still,

The thoughts that we do have do tend to come around again and again,

And again.

And so that rumination,

For most people,

Will turn into some form of mild anxiety.

Or eventually,

If whatever the thought is made of,

If you don't give it attention,

It'll turn into something more intense or acute.

Right.

And it'll start to run your life.

How many thoughts a day was this?

Some other figure I saw was more like,

Yeah,

Some other figure I saw was more like in the 7,

000 range.

Oh,

Okay.

Maybe we should do- You cut out and I thought,

I heard you say a thousand.

And I was like,

A thousand?

I had a thousand thoughts just the last hour.

Oh,

Yeah.

Nicole said 80 or 90% of them are,

80% are negative.

95% are repetitive.

I would believe that.

Absolutely.

If you can pull that needle out of that haystack,

One thought could make a huge difference,

Change the world,

Change the trajectory of your life.

But you have to learn how to listen and how to look properly.

Well,

And if you could change that,

I mean,

Less negative thoughts and just less repetitive,

Pointless,

That takes a lot of energy that could otherwise be used in a creative endeavor.

Well,

That's why a lot of religious people will pray over and over all day.

In Buddhism,

They have the beads,

Mantras,

And that is kind of a way to manage all of those thoughts and direct them into one direction.

But once you stop,

In my experience,

They all flood back in and it could be too much forcing versus facing.

True.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a good point though.

Saying the rosary or a mantra takes all those thoughts into just one thought that's repeated over and over.

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Nice talk, it's interesting and fluid. Thank you 🙏

Would love to do the meditation that goes with this.

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