Most Thoughts Do Not Belong to You

By Lori Marie

As humans, we come into this world with a clean slate while absorbing everything around us. In reality, we begin absorbing information the moment we are conceived and growing in the womb of our mother. Absorbing information is our natural state of understanding.

Words are simply the system humans evolved to communicate with each other, but feeling and absorbing information came first. Before language, there was sensing. There was intuition. There was direct understanding through feeling, energy, emotion, and connection to our environment. There was also a natural connection to source.

As we grow and become conditioned by the human world and the need for survival, we slowly lose touch with that original way of understanding. It never actually disappears, though. We still use it constantly, we are just no longer consciously aware of it because we have become dependent on language and mental interpretation.

Now, when we think, our minds associate words with images, memories, emotions, and experiences we can relate to. This is one reason learning a new language can feel difficult. Our brains are trying to connect unfamiliar words to the internal meanings and images we already built our reality around. Sometimes another language does not even carry the same meaning at all, which forces us to literally rewire the way we interpret life itself.

Language is useful, but it is also limiting.

Our natural state is not thinking in constant words. Our natural state is sensing and absorbing information directly. Instead of hearing sentences in our head, we would simply understand something through feeling and inner knowing.

But now language is mixed into everything, which creates constant mental chatter.

Why?

Because humans are like antennas. We absorb far more than we realize. We pick up emotions, environments, tension, energy, patterns, moods, and the emotional states of people around us. We also receive insight from deeper parts of ourselves, what some call the higher self, intuition, source, God, or universal consciousness.

The problem is that once words become attached to those signals, we begin interpreting everything as if it is automatically our own thought.

Sometimes it is.

Sometimes it is conditioning.

Sometimes it is the fear we absorbed from others.

Sometimes it is an old belief system replaying itself.

Sometimes it is insight.

Sometimes it is inspiration.

The challenge is learning how to tell the difference.

If we became more aware of what is actually ours versus what we are unconsciously absorbing, life would become far less chaotic. We would respond more authentically instead of reacting automatically to every thought or emotional wave passing through us.

The first step is recognizing that humans naturally absorb information from their environment. Once we consciously understand that, we become more aware of what we are taking in throughout the day.

The next step is paying attention to the words, emotions, images, and mental noise moving through our minds daily. If we constantly match the chaos around us without questioning it, we continue feeding confusion inside ourselves.

Instead, we need to slow down and observe.

Listen to your thoughts.

Listen to your feelings.

Bring them into your awareness and question them honestly.

Is this actually how I feel?

Where did this thought come from?

Does this sound like my own voice, or someone else's fear, anger, or belief?

What around me may have triggered this?

Keep in mind we do unconsciously tap into others. If they are thinking of us or we have a strong connection to them we may be picking up on their signal. For those who are more tapped in they may even do this for people they are not strongly connected to.

If we realize a thought truly belongs to us, then we should ask why we believe it in the first place. Many times, when we trace a belief back to its origin, we discover it was built from misunderstanding, conditioning, fear, or something we absorbed long ago and accepted as truth.

Other times, we may notice a thought, idea, or inspiration that feels far beyond our normal thinking patterns. A sudden creative idea. A deep realization. A solution that seemed to arrive out of nowhere.

Where did that come from?

I feel as though that is what true channeling actually is.

Not something dramatic, but something natural.

Artists experience it. Writers experience it. Inventors experience it. Anyone who creates has felt moments where ideas seem to arrive through them rather than from them.

Maybe humans do not truly own ideas at all. Maybe we are simply the mechanism through which consciousness expresses and materializes them.

At our core, we are natural absorbers of information living inside a world overflowing with signals, language, emotions, and noise. The goal is not to shut all of it out. The goal is to become conscious enough to recognize what we are absorbing and decide what deserves our attention.

Because once we begin practicing discernment, awareness becomes a tool.

We may not control what we absorb, but we can learn to control how we interpret it, how we respond to it, and whether we choose to hold onto it or let it go.