Page 367 - Meditation – Pujya SriRamchandraji Maharaj

practical way developing our will and special will too.
By adopting the method of ignoring the thoughts during the meditation and at other times we stop practicing spellbound thinking. Spellbound thinking is one way our mind maintains control of our thoughts, and activates our negative emotions. Many of the aspirants who write to me about their thoughts and ideas during meditation and in their lives are bound by their thoughts as if they are spell bound. If they have contemplated over their thoughts they would have seen that they are:
i) Repetitive and automatic;
ii) negative, judgmental; and
iii) focused on regretting the past
iv) Or worrying about the future. And so on.
Some of the aspirants have been reporting the same thoughts for decades. They should realise that their thoughts are distressingly limiting them and whatever be the origin of such thoughts they are to be ignored totally. But the misfortune is that these thoughts that cause trouble in the mental plane are a result
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