Thinking Teastained Woman: The Culprit is Your Motive

It's not always easy to disconnect from your thoughts and examine them for faulty motives and meditations.  Truth is, we'll make more mistakes than not due to thoughts that were given too much hospitality by our minds, able to maneuver their way into sacred spaces. It's worth it to fight back, to let toxic thoughts know that we're onto them and to stop them as soon as we find them burglarizing our minds.  We first have to learn their tactics--in this case, motive and pretension--to be able to discern their patterns in our lives.  

The journal helps with this too, enabling us to catalog the ways our thoughts are engaged and creating a narrative on how we can be more vigilant in guarding them. We keep a journal to keep track of our thoughts, seeing them on paper so we can see ourselves clearly. The journal allows us to see where the tarnishing may have occurred and thus we can observe how to best get back on track to where we are trying to go.  We can also see when certain motives have distracted us from the bigger picture and where our minds were more concerned with some topical motive than with coming up higher and finding the frequency at which we were meant to be functioning in that moment.

But you can't always wait until you get to your journal to call yourself out for entertaining pretentious or ill-motivated thoughts, so hopefully your journal will teach you how they sound so you can shut them down when they begin making noise within you.

Guard your mind.