Since thought likely dominates how you communicate with yourself, it may be helpful to consider what it is and what it does exactly in relation to your personal power. One way to look at thought is a sort of repackaging of internal communication into familiar language.
Without thought how would you understand the information contained within an emotion or a feeling, for example? You likely know what is being communicated within the emotion or feeling . . . but you also want to view it in a familiar form and language. Enter: your thoughts.
It’s not much different than if you were in a foreign country, sort of knew what was being said, but you wanted the information in a form and a language you recognized. In this sense, thought can be viewed as a way of instantaneously converting and summarizing huge amounts of information you communicate to yourself into a recognizable language.
This thoughtful conversion of your internal communications is extremely useful – but at the same time it’s not a substitute for all of the raw data (emotions, impressions, sensory input, impulses and so on) which you offer to yourself.
In other words, thought is incredibly useful and may well serve a critical function – but it cannot take the place of your internal reflection on the full spectrum of information you offer to yourself at every moment.
Joseph Fedorowsky / Personal Empowerment
