What Happens When We Believe Our Thoughts

“Think → Feel → Act → Have. This is how we create our false world.” – Byron Katie ❤

We so often believe the thoughts that appear in our minds. We identify with them. But in truth, we are more than our thoughts. We are more than our emotions, more than our feelings, more than our desires. Yet the moment we believe them and give them power, they start ruling us—and we lose our own strepower. Instead of us directing our thoughts, they start directing us…

Instead of simply letting them come and go—being a kind of “channel” through which thoughts pass—we cling to them, believe they are true, and then act on them. And from there, we create our reality exactly as we perceive it. 🙂

The transformation that happens in us when we stop believing our thoughts and free ourselves from them—it’s incredible ❤

I notice this almost daily in myself, but in one of my recent sessions, I witnessed it so clearly in another person that I want to share it with you ❤

I asked my client how she reacts, what happens inside her, when she believes the particular thoughts that dominate her. She told me that in those moments, she suffers. She feels pain. She feels bad about herself. She treats herself and others harshly. She resists reality, resists herself.

But when I asked her who she would be without those thoughts, she instantly changed. The sadness and anger disappeared from her face. She relaxed. She softened. She felt harmonious, happy, free, at peace.

Then we moved on to another set of thoughts, and I asked again what happens when she believes them → immediately, this peaceful, happy, free person shifted back into the role of a victim. Her breath tightened. She felt pain, sadness, heaviness. Her thoughts created painful images and feelings, and believing them dragged her into suffering again.

A little later, I asked again: who would you be in this same moment, in this same reality, just without believing these thoughts? → once again, she relaxed, opened up, and returned to being light, free, happy, at peace.

Of course, reality itself hadn’t changed in either case. Reality was simply that two people—me and my client—were sitting across from each other. But depending on what thoughts were coming into her mind, what she chose to believe, and the stories she told herself about herself and the world, her inner state shifted completely. And with it, her perception of reality shifted too.

I repeat: nothing in reality itself changed. It was still exactly the same → two people sitting together in the here and now.

Watching this from the outside, I realized again that our true, natural state is simply to be—to exist in the present moment, peacefully, lightly, harmoniously with ourselves and with the world, while doing what we’re doing. But when unpleasant thoughts about the past, the future, ourselves, others, or the world arise—and we believe them—they take us away from that harmony and peace, replacing it with anxiety, stress, anger, worry, sadness.

This freedom, this peace, this lightness—it never disappears. It’s always here, always available within us. It returns the moment we are present, in the here and now, free from unnecessary thoughts, judgments, and attachments, when we simply let go and relax. 🙂 ❤

Have you noticed how often your mood or inner state changes so dramatically in the very same reality—just because of the thoughts that come, and the fact that you believe them? 🙂

For me, sometimes even in the course of one single day, my state can change countless times across the whole spectrum—depending on what I choose to believe in the moment. :)))

But I’ve started learning how to observe my thoughts. Little by little, I’m learning how to separate from them, how to free myself from them. ❤ And The Work of Byron Katie helps me so much in this. ❤❤❤

With love,
Tina Basilaia ❤