We are receivers

You know those times you feel inspired, in the zone? And words emerge that don’t feel your own? It means you are tapped into creative flow. And this is where we want to go.

But so too are the words we hear all day not our own. We just identify with them more because we’ve been thinking them so long and so often. They too are just an energy and come from somewhere else - many are societal and ancestral messages, and older more primitive thoughts we pick up when we are based too much in our brains' default processing mode. And there's nothing to be ashamed of that we are receiving them. They are out there prevalent and hard to escape from. And there's nothing to be ashamed of for believing them either. It's hard to break free from the main "stream" of thought.

Look at it this way.
What you think are your thoughts are not.
They're a channel you have tapped into.
You are not them, the good or the bad.
You are something that they pass through.

The important thing here is that those beautiful insights that feel like they are from the divine or something outside ourselves are just as real as the more mundane or actively self destructive mind chatter we hear all day. In fact, I would argue that they are more real. More than just profound truths, they are actually closer to who we really are.

The work for us is to get into that receptive state to receive those free flowing inspirational thoughts more and more. And to do this, we must first stop holding onto the old ones, particularly the lies about us not being worthy (worth is our birthright!) and decide we will no longer believe in them. Watch them pass by like a thief in the night, which is what they are, a thief of joy. Even mundane neutral thoughts can take us out of the present and act as a barrier to joy. Finding the things that bring us into a state of calm contentment, helps us to pick up (like radio signals) on the happier thoughts, the inspirations, the wisdom; and if we are lucky, be graced by a state of flow where there are no thoughts at all, only joy, our true essence from simply being alive.