Friday, December 1, 2023

Chelan Harkin: Thought Isn't the Root of the Mind

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Thought Isn't the Root of the Mind

Thought isn’t the root of the mind, the feelings in the body and their associated subconscious beliefs are. The thoughts are the strategies for coping with these. I feel annoyed when I hear what I would call fragmented spirituality talking about letting go of thought because it so often denies the embodied process and can be more of a fragmented bypassing than a healthy resolution that leads to wholeness. Wholeness leads to love, compassion, deepening connection, open-hearted truth and blossoming potential. Fragmented ways lead to disconnection, avoidance, arrogance and perpetuated hierarchy.

— Chelan Harkin


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