The kidnapped thoughts

It happens sometimes, or it could be more than sometimes, to find yourself trapped in your own thoughts, and then to sense how steadily you lose the freedom to think about or do anything else. They can occur at any time of the day, or they can obsessively keep your mind busy during the whole day to finally reappear as a kind of a strange dream, filled with loads of vague symbols and experiences which may mean almost nothing to you. It’s like your thoughts have been kidnapped, thus leaving you deprived of your liberty rights.

While striving to find a suitable reason to comfort yourself that it’s not you, but the world around, you get more and more trapped. Before accusing whoever or whatever of having that extraordinary power to control and manipulate your thoughts, just stop and contemplate a little bit on what they are about. To find the real kidnapper, you should not try to overlook or confront them. Instead, allow yourself to pay your whole attention to that issue and keep on following the tiny path which will lead you straight to the secret den of those thoughts.

Let yourself be yourself for a while and get in touch with your inner navigator. It will give you a certain direction which might be related to this issue, or might be not. Explore each possible reason which could be the source of those thoughts, but stay entirely concentrated on yourself. Do not give it up, if you can’t find a reasonable solution from the first attempt – take a different direction and explore some more possible reasons. Eventually, it may turn out to be that the real kidnapper of your thoughts is nobody and nothing else but you yourself.

Those obsessive thoughts which keep on haunting your head, day after day, and look for a different expression every time, are most probably a sign of a totally unheeded personal need. It could be related to a given past experience which needs to be overcome, or a deep desire to achieve or understand something new. Whatever the need occurs to be, just give it a green light and simply go out to fulfill it. There will be an instant feeling of liberation and relief which will give the necessary space in your mind for more important, life-related topics.

Though we are naturally more likely to search for outer sources to explain a certain discomfort within ourselves, it’s quite as well natural and more probable to find out that the real reason of an issue originates from us. The outer sources, of course, are not excluded at all. We perceive, consciously or unconsciously, a lot of information from the surrounding environment, which sometimes might be difficult to interpret immediately. However, those daily encounters with the known and the unknown are aimed at uplifting our mental capacity, too.