The
First Thought of the Day
From The Art of Total Thinking – Chapter 5 by Swami Krishnananda
When you wake up in the
morning, observe the first thought that occurs to your mind. This will give you
an idea of the predominant thoughts which were governing your previous day’s
life, or several earlier days. Make this habit of noting down the first thought
that occurs in the morning continuously for days together, or even months. You
will be surprised that very often when we get up in the morning we rise up with
such anxiety and a rush of a feeling of responsibility that we would not have
the occasion to note down the first thought. We are pushed into activity by the
impulse of anxiety in the direction of the duties of the particular day. But it
is good to have a habit of trying to note down the first thought that occurs in
the morning.
Generally what we like the
most or hate the most will be the thing that occurs to our mind first. There
are among the many ideas of our mind certain intensive propulsions of the
psyche which lie as an undercurrent of the other ideas, thoughts, feelings,
etc., and these predominant ideas are those connected with what we intensely
like or intensely dislike. No one can be free from these psychic habituations.
Why do these thoughts occur to
the mind? They have a connection with far-reaching implications. They may be
messages from distant realms. The distant regions may be spatially far away from
us or inwardly deep in our own unconscious layers. However, on a careful
investigation into the nature of these thoughts which occurred first in the
morning, we will know what we are. Knowledge of what we really are will be
given to us by a study of an average of these first thoughts that occur for a
continuous period.
Each one of us is an
individual, playing a role in this drama of creation, and we are neither
necessary nor unnecessary. We have an importance, and we have no importance.
Both statements are correct. Now, in this situation, who is a friend and who is
an enemy? What is it that we can like, and what is it that we cannot like? Thus
conduct your meditational activity in the early morning. These are the ways in
which we can bring our thoughts to a concentrated focus of wholeness.
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