Random Thoughts (Guest Author)

It is not easy to step beyond thoughts, at many points in life. Once gets overcome by anger, fury, and says/does things that one regrets later.

At the same time, the mind needs to do this, to keep itself together.

But the very fact that one is aware of all this means one is already going beyond such thoughts.

And all this can be avoided to a large extent. By not mixing with people more than what is necessary.

Everybody works, everybody is busy...but...I feel a person who TRULY focuses more on his/her work, than on people, will be able to lead a healthy, balanced life.

Apart from focusing on work, regular exercise helps one deal with the hostile emotional world, of self and others.

Exercise and work calm the mind. The situations that used to hurt, don't hurt that much anymore.

Eckhart Tolle says one should not worry about stepping beyond thoughts, but focus on the 'gap between thoughts'.

The silent space between thoughts IS the door that takes one beyond his/her thoughts, although this may not sound very convincing at first glance.

While working, you may notice that you are not paying attention to your thoughts, but are focused on the task at hand. This state of mind is called 'presence'.

Presence automatically takes you beyond thought.

The more you live in presence, the more the personality evolves, the more you go beyond old thought patterns.

Deep breathing, on a regular basis, will also do WONDERS, in making a person feel healthier and stronger.

Only recently, a very critical medical emergency, a heart attack, was controlled, just through DEEP BREATHING.

If deep breathing can do so much for the human body, you can imagine what fantastic benefits deep breathing can provide to the human mind.