14 - How Thoughts & Emotions Work

An exploration of both the creative and blocking aspects of thoughts. The utility of using them when they are helpful and letting them go with they are not. How thoughts and emotions work and what they do.

Transcript

Hello,

This is William Cooper.

Welcome to Awakening Together.

I trust you're doing well.

In our last podcast,

We looked at being mainly,

The qualities of being and the explosion of being who you are when you're not covered up.

Today,

I'd like to look at the other side of the equation.

Thoughts,

Emotions,

Perspectives.

Let's look at how thoughts work and how emotions work.

We're kind of in an interesting situation because as we explored last time,

Our beingness comes from an infinite place.

How do you know?

Look.

Take some time.

Be still and look and it will become clear.

But as you follow your awareness back,

You'll see that it reaches into the infinite,

Into so-called emptiness that we talked about.

This infinite,

Full emptiness,

Empty only because it's beyond creation and you can't describe it in words,

But it comes into existence and down through our bodies.

So here we are,

Infinite beyond creation,

But suddenly we are in creation,

Experiencing all of creation through our body.

It's a very interesting thing to be that which creates and the creation itself.

That's where we find ourselves.

Well,

This light of being uses thoughts and emotions to create,

To create further within creation.

So when we shine our light of being through what we call a thought,

It creates something.

It creates an image.

It creates an activity.

Many things and the same when we create an emotion.

It forms a 3D feeling aspect that fits along with the images created by thoughts.

It's very interesting.

Creation through thoughts and emotions are something like a film negative that is used to create a film.

When you shine your light through a thought,

The thought creates an image by blocking some of that light just like a negative would block some of the light shining through it.

It blocks it and what goes through the other side of that negative or that image is a picture or an experience.

Same with emotions.

Emotions work by blocking the being of you,

Your light of being.

Images or thoughts or emotions that block a lot,

Those are called negative emotions or negative thoughts because they're very thick and not much of your light shines through so you start to feel very depressed and heavy.

Thoughts that don't block a lot are very expansive.

Emotions that don't block a lot are very expansive.

Nonetheless,

Even though some emotions and thoughts block more than others,

All of them block something.

Thoughts and emotions are maintained by the light and life of our being.

And so just like any kind of active art like ballet or symphony or a play,

It takes a lot of energy both to create the play and the symphony or the ballet and to maintain it,

To keep doing it over and over and over.

It takes a lot of energy.

It takes a lot of light.

So when we create a thought or an image or an emotion and we maintain it longer than it needs to be maintained,

We're using a lot of energy to do that.

It's okay if you have one thought in your world or one emotion or two or three,

But over a lifetime when we create them and they pile up and they get bigger and bigger and thicker and thicker and we have hundreds and thousands,

It diffuses the beauty of our being.

And so we become very cut off from ourselves and very expended,

Tired,

Because we're being diffused in a hundred different ways and a thousand different ways.

So it's important not only to know how to create thoughts and emotions,

But also how to uncreate them so they're not piled up when we don't need them anymore.

They're like computer programs or lots of information on our computer.

It's good to be able to have these things that helps us with what we're doing on the computer,

But when we have too many and we're not using them anymore,

They're sucking energy.

They're draining the battery.

They're slowing down the mechanism of our computer when they're no longer needed,

But they're running anyway.

Same with thoughts and emotions in our world.

So what we're looking at along the way is how to dissipate or uncreate the ones that we don't need.

And that's really what we're doing meditation for.

As we go through these podcasts,

Yes,

To see is to be free.

And when you see clearly,

It clears up a lot.

However,

We've built certain structures called thoughts and emotions that continually exist because we continually supply them with energy.

And it's not only enough to see clearly,

But we have to uncreate them,

Withdraw the energy and let them fall apart because then they no longer distract us or captivate us.

You know,

We love our thoughts and our emotions and sometimes we can get lost in them and cut off from ourselves in that way as well.

We become lost in them just like we would a TV show and in our emotions.

So we don't want them draining our energy or distracting us or sometimes they run at counter measures to where we actually are now in our lives.

And something that made sense 20 years ago is now hurting us because it's running in a direction that we don't want to go.

So it's good to be able to let them go,

To let them dissipate.

Finally,

Or additionally,

When they fall apart,

They release all of that energy that went into them to create them.

And as we talked about in a prior podcast,

There is only one kind of energy,

Which is love and light and happiness and well-being.

So you get a rush of energy when they dissipate because that energy is you.

It's being supplied by you so you feel stronger,

More powerful with only the thoughts that you need or that you find helpful.

Think about this.

Do you have more thoughts or less thoughts when you get a massage and you're feeling very,

Very relaxed and good?

Less.

You're not covered over.

You're just feeling your being.

More thoughts or less thoughts when you look at the Grand Canyon and you're in awe?

Awe.

Less.

You don't have any thoughts.

You're in awe.

When you see a great work of art,

No thoughts.

You just are mesmerized by it.

When you're in love,

No thoughts.

When you're in the depths of a religious or relational experience,

No thoughts.

You're feeling the fullness of your being.

That's really what awakening is,

Isn't it?

Feeling the fullness of your being,

Feeling the natural happiness that's there all the time that you don't have to do anything to get or to experience.

You're just experiencing it naturally.

That's who you are.

That's awakening.

And life works best if that's what we're feeling all the time.

And then when we want to create,

We shine that light through a thought that we create so that we can move nicely in this created realm.

We can use thoughts to bake a cake or start a car or walk a dog.

Or we can use thoughts in a different way,

Like creating a vision board or picturing what it is we want and letting consciousness coalesce around that thought and that thing come into existence.

We can create in that way as well.

More about all this later.

In our next podcast,

Let's explore how we use groups of thoughts and emotions to form personality and what that does and doesn't do for us.

It's really pretty interesting.

So I look forward to talking to you then.

Take care and let's talk soon.

Reviews

Thank you, William—beautiful and useful description of emotion and energy!
Donna

Uh oh I have thoughts during all those times you mentioned that a person may not have thoughts💥😁🫣🤔
I understand what you’re saying though.
Thank you.

Loved this one. So many nuggets and metaphors and resonant words. 🎞️ Going to save this one to listen again. Thank you! 🙏🏼✨❤️

I understand we create and are creation itself. I feel for me it's in the UNcreate. Vibrating from the realization about being in AWE the fullness and there are no thoughts...excited to create with my thoughts 🔥 message divinely received

I really struggle with my thinking. I don’t know what it is, but I have a hard time letting go of negative thoughts. They pile up as you said. I think i’ve let go of something and bam! it comes back when i least expect it and smacks me in the head like a boomerang! And I work very hard at paying attention to that. I’m looking forward to you talking more about our thoughts. 💭 🤍💭🤍💭🤍💭🤍💭

Makes so much sense. Love the computer analogy. Perfect. Thank you for making these podcasts!

Interesting concept how thoughts and feelings cover us up and get in the way of our being

Thank you 🙏

Loving this . . . on to Ep. 15🙏

Great descriptions thank you very much for sharing.

Excellent message as usual. Insightful, Powerful and Helpful!!!
Thank you, William!!! Your website is also really good. Love the writings!!!
~ Be well and keep more coming!!!
Jennifer

Thank you, William. This segment of 'Awakening' - via your description of the "thickness" of thoughts and emotions, and your description of the process of shedding is very freeing.

great perspective.
Thank you.

VERY INTERESTING❗️ Look forward to hearing more. 🙏🏻💕