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author resource box at end is included. Notification of publication would be appreciated.Title: What Program is on Your Inner TV? Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2003 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 830 Category: Spiritual Growth
WHAT PROGRAM IS ON YOUR INNER TV? By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
What’s playing on your inner TV? Your inner TV is screen in your mind upon which you create various scenarios. Perhaps channel is "Reliving Past." Maybe it’s "Controlling Future." Is your channel on "Obsessive Thinking" where you are ruminating over and over about a situation or about how you want to handle something?
Our mind tends to go on and on making up stuff, as if what it is thinking is always truth. However, mind has been deeply programmed since childhood to think and believe in ways that often have nothing to do with truth.
Truth is that which comes from source of truth, which is Spirit. We are able to access truth when we are present in this very moment with a deep desire to learn about truth and love. When we are present to this moment - to our inner experience and our surroundings - we are present with Spirit, so Spirit is able to communicate with us. When our deepest desire is to be present with truth, love and reality of this moment, we stop our obsessive or programmed thinking, which is always a way to control. When we are present in this moment, we have surrendered to Spirit. We have let go of control and are in faith that we are being guided and supported in our highest good. We don’t need to put our limited mind in charge because we know that we will receive whatever messages we need from our Guidance. Our inner TV is OFF!
So, is your inner TV on or off? How often is your inner TV on "Control" channel?
For example, let’s say that you know that you need to speak with your boss about a problem you are having with another employee. You probably spend some time thinking about what you’re going to say. If you’re on control channel, then your wounded self has possession of remote control of your inner TV. On this channel you are thinking about how to make your point, how to be heard and understood, how to win, how to be right, how to convince, and so on. You might be preparing your defense should your boss disagree. Perhaps you rehearse this over and over, rerunning video you have recorded. You want to make sure you get it right.
