you were doing at the time, but what thoughts were going through your head at that exact moment.)
For many people that answer this, they realize that they didn't
have any thoughts during that exact moment. For others, they say that the thought was that they were so grateful or happy.
For those that answered that they had the thought that they were
grateful, did you feel that joy and love before you had that thought or after?
Take 10-15 seconds to answer that question before moving on.
What insights and epiphanies did you have?
What's crazy is that most people didn't have any thoughts going
through their mind when they felt the happiest and the most amount of love in their lives. For those that had the thought that they were grateful, they felt that way before having that thought.
If they had that thought, it happened after they felt the feelings, so
the thought could not have produced the feeling.
This brings us to another truth: you do not have to have
thoughts or think to feel positive emotions.
The beautiful part about truth is that it needs no justification
because it can be experienced right here right now. It doesn't need to be proven or rationalized to you and you experienced this truth firsthand by the experiment we just did.
Here's why we don't need to have thoughts or think to feel positive
emotions like joy and love.
Our natural state of being IS joy, love, ecstasy, freedom, and
gratitude. This may be hard to believe because if it's natural, why don't we feel that way all the time? I'll answer this in a bit.
If we want to see the natural state of anything, one of the best
ways is to look at nature and the state of it in its infancy (before it is affected and conditioned by its environment).
For example, let's look at the natural state of a baby. What is a
baby's natural and default state (assuming the baby wasn't abused, neglected, or had any physical issues)? Are babies naturally stressed, anxious, fearful, and self-conscious? Or are they naturally in a state of bliss, happiness, and love?