Prayer, Heart and Breath
Prayer can also be a phrase or a short verse chosen from the Gospel or Bible, repeated sweetly, with eyes closed and with the heart.
I pray always all day. I pray mentally but I learned with time not to force myself and to let myself go to the Lord’s will. Because if you turn towards God, praying and remaining in contact with him -through the mind and above all the heart- everything becomes easier.
I have always thought that a human being can battle negative thoughts with holy, interior words coming from the heart.
Creating interior peace is so important in my life vision that I suggest praying with holy words. I advise choosing the shortest phrase possible and saying it with the breath – once with the inhale and then with the exhale, and continuing that way for a while.
Let’s allow the word of God to enter our hearts and purify them.
But let’s not wait impatiently for healing. Let’s leave it to God.
Translation by Dani Clark Scano
Analyze in depth
Another battle method is to analyze in depth what the negative thought truly wants. For example: when you eat, ask yourself if you’re truly hungry or if it’s an anxious hunger or a unconscious desire to fill yourself with the affection you don’t have…
Usually, when you analyze the negative thoughts they prefer to abandon the battle field. They are not very patient and if you don’t obey them immediately they go away, almost as if annoyed.
Translation by Dani Clark Scano
Another piece of advice
I have seen that activating and concentrating on one or more of the senses – sight, sound, smell, touch, taste- helps to move the negative thoughts away…
to look at lively colors with intensity, to taste a piece of candy, to smell perfume, to listen to a piece of sweet and harmonious music, to caress a piece of fabric…
Translation by Dani Clark Scano
First Positive Advice
As I already mentioned, the first battle strategy consists in moving our attention to our spiritual motto as soon as a negative thought enters the mind. This could be a prayer, a word, or a line from sacred scripture. If despite this the negative thoughts don’t disappear, enter into communication with them. If we don’t listen to what they have to say, their negative and destructive power increases. We need to ask what they want to tell us, who sends them…. listen to them, show them their absurdity or malevolence … and if they insist, just let them remain in a corner of the mind and let us go about our daily life.
As if to say: Ok, stay if you want. We’ll talk about it later. I have things to do now.
Translation by Dani Clark Scano
As if to say: Ok, stay if you want. We’ll talk about it later. I have things to do now.
Another thing… for example
Another thing… good intentions should be made sparingly.
If a good intention is not made with determination and concentration it can turn out to be a trap. It can become an alibi, a justification.
The mind is very clever.
So it is necessary to transfer the level of the battle.
From theory to practice.
When we make a good intention we do well to associate it to a practical act, something habitual and simple, like brushing our teeth, closing and opening a door or watching the time, etc…
And so doing it becomes a very powerful psycho-spiritual way of conditioning the self.
And, after some time, it works without us realizing it.
Translation by Dani Clark Scano
Il buon proposito se non fatto con determinazione e concentrazione può rivelarsi una trappola. Può diventare un alibi , una giustificazione.
La mente è molto astuta.
Bisogna, allora, spostare il livello di combattimento.
Da teorico a pratico.
Quando stiamo facendo un buon proposito sarebbe bene associarlo a un atto pratico, abitudinario e semplice, come può essere il lavarsi i denti, il chiudere o aprire una porta, il guardare l’ora, ecc….
Così facendo diventa un autocondizionamento psicospirituale di grande potere.
E, dopo un po’ di tempo, opera senza che ce ne accorgiamo.
No Direct Battles
How many times did I battle against my negative thoughts in a way that was too direct!
They would go away for a while, but would always return stronger than ever, almost as if instead of overcoming them, my way of fighting rendered them stronger.
Then with experience and after a lot of suffering and failure, I understood that the battle against our negative thoughts should be conducted carefully and cleverly.
If you like, In the coming blog entries, I will tell you how.
Translation by Dani Clark
You must love me…
Even if we shouldn’t have material debts, we cannot escape having relational ones.
Because each person close to us is our creditor, in the sense that they have a right to our attention and availability.
We are born creditors and are called to become debtors, despite ourselves.
We are born with the need to be loved and we are called to love.
Translation by Dani Clark Scano
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