How to Remove Negative Thoughts? | positive or negative | power of positive

There are no subtractions and 

divisions in our mind, there is only addition  

and multiplication. ‘I will just remove negative 

thoughts and I will have positive thoughts,’  

all the best, it's not going to work. It's just 

that you need to pay little attention as to how  

it functions. You will see there is a distinction 

between what is you and what you have gathered.

Well, see the way the question is asked and also 

the way normally it's addressed is, people think  

there is something called as negative thought and 

positive thought. They want to remove the negative  

thoughts and have only positive thoughts. For 

such people, I would ask them to just experiment  

for ten, fifteen seconds. Let them forcefully 

remove one thought from their mind. For example,  

next ten seconds, just don't think of 

a monkey. Try not to think of a monkey  

for next ten seconds – you will see, you will 

be full of monkeys. So, what I am saying is,  

this is the nature of your mind, because 

in this mind, all the three pedals are  

throttle – there is no brake, there is no clutch 

– whatever you touch, it will only go faster.

In this kind of mind, people have been taught 

from moral teachers and religious teachers,  

“Do not think about bad things.” Well, 

since then, it's been a full-time job.  

So, there is no way you can handle the mind like 

this, this doesn't need any great enlightenment.  

If you spend two minutes with your eyes 

closed, you will realize, you cannot do  

anything forcefully with this mind. So, ‘I want to 

remove negative thoughts,’ do not ever go in this  

direction, because what you want to remove will 

become your quality, always you will be on it.  

“So, what should I do?” The thing is this – 

without understanding the fundamental mechanism of  

this mind, because our mind, human mind is the 

most sophisticated computer on the planet.  

Even all the supercomputers have come out of this.  

When this is the case, is it not important that 

we understand the mechanics of how it functions?

One simplistic aspect of how 

it functions is – there are no  

subtractions and divisions in our mind, there 

is only addition and multiplication. If you try  

to do something with it, it will say, “One more.” 

If you try hard, it will multiply into many more.  

In this mind, you don't try to identify what is 

positive, what is negative and try to remove it.  

First of all, one needs to understand, this 

mind of yours, this body of yours is supposed  

to serve you. The life that you are is important. 

Body and mind are vehicles that must serve us.

If you sit in a vehicle, it must go (Laughs), 

where you want to go. If it goes to its own  

destination, what is the point of such a 

vehicle? It's just a nuisance. Right now,  

most human beings are unfortunately, experiencing 

this fantastic possibility of human mind  

as a nuisance, as a troublesome thing. Well, 

this is the most beautiful thing you have.  

It's just that you need to pay little attention 

as to how it functions. One simple thing is this –  

first and foremost process is… that's why 

we put out this process called ‘Isha Kriya.’  

This is to distance yourself from your 

physiological and psychological process.  

There is something called as, “You” which exists. 

This is not a composite of all your thoughts and  

emotions and physiological processes. Beyond 

that, there is you. If you close your eyes,  

even if you cannot see anything, you're still 

there. It is through the window of your eyes  

that you are looking out, but if you close your 

eyes, it doesn't mean that you don't exist,  

you still exist. So, beyond your thought you 

still exist, beyond your emotion you still  

exist, so that you, the life that you are, 

this has to come into your experience.

Why is it that you're not allowing 

that to come into your experience,  

which is the most significant aspect of who you 

are? Who you are right now, the most significant  

aspect is – you and me are alive right now, 

this is it. ‘What I'm thinking, what you're  

thinking’ is not the important thing. We are 

alive right now, that is the important thing.  

So, it is important that you focus on this 

fundamental sense of aliveness within you,  

and then you will see there is a natural 

distance between you and your thought process.

Once there is a distance between your 

psychological process and your physiological  

process, this is the end of suffering. Because 

there are only two kinds of suffering that human  

beings go through – physical suffering and mental 

suffering. Once you create a little space between  

you and your mind, between you and your body, this 

is the end of suffering. This is something every  

human being has to experience and know, otherwise 

thinking, “I will just remove negative thoughts  

and I will have positive thoughts,” all the 

best, it's not going to work. One hundred percent  

it’s not going to work, because nobody can 

remove it, they can avoid it for some time.

So, when negative thoughts come, you say, 

“Ram, Ram, Shiva, Shiva,” whatever you want,  

but this is just avoiding, it's not gone. The 

moment you stop that, it will pop back with  

great force, otherwise it will come back in your 

dreams. So, it's very important. First of all, you  

need to understand – your anger, your resentment, 

your fear, your anxieties, the negativity that  

you generate; generally resentment, anger, 

it is always directed towards somebody.  

But we need to understand this is poisons that we 

are drinking and expecting somebody else to die.

Fortunately, life doesn't work like 

that. If I drink poison, I die.  

If I drink poison, you don't die. So, we need to 

understand this. When I say, “Poison” – today,  

you can have yourself chemically analyzed. Right 

now, ‘what is your blood work?’ What it says,  

five minutes of intense anger, check your blood 

work and see, there will be lots of negative  

elements in it. Literally, you're poisoning 

yourself. So, do you want to poison yourself?  

Definitely not. Now the very question is coming 

from certain helplessness, ‘What shall I do?’

Don't do anything. Just sit back and just concern 

yourself with something which is the life process,  

maybe your heartbeat, maybe your breath, 

maybe just the sensation of being alive.  

Depending upon how sensitive or how perceptive 

you are, accordingly, find something, it could  

be a sensation in the body, it could be breath, 

it could be heartbeat, it could be anything,  

something which indicates life to you. Just pay 

attention to that for some time. Slowly, you will  

see there is a distinction between what is you and 

what you have gathered, which includes both your  

physiological and psychological possibility 

or mess, whatever you’ve made out of it.