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Dealing with Obtrusive, Repetitive Thoughts · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  before we can deal with thoughts, we need to have at
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  least a basic understanding of what they are and where they
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  come from, but they consist of and what the purpose of thought
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  is yet, we rarely if ever examined these questions and
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  simply take, thought for granted, as something necessary
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  and permanent and a part of our being Western psychology has
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  traditionally relied on a mechanical or even that chemical
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  model of thought, which seems in their view to be a byproduct of
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  the physical bodies. Activity, of course, this does
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  not explain where and how this happens or why.
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  CG Jung explored the collective unconscious and posited that
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  there is an external reality from which imagery and thereby
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  also thought arises and enters into the individual.
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  Various ancient Western philosophers believed that there
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  was an ideal world where the idea resided.
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  And it was from there that the forms and activities of the
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  material world were created practitioners of the occult of
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  noted in their exploration of Inner Space, that there is a
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  separate plane of thought, independent of the individual.
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  And it is on this separate plane, that thoughts exist.
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  Their original form and from thence impose themselves into
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  the physical world. The type area opening shot,
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  provides the experiential view of the rishi's that there is a
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  mental sheath or plain and then a knowledge sheath or plane
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  which implies a universal and separate existence from which
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  the individual incidents of thought arrives and promulgate
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  through individuals. The mother takes up this
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  understanding as she explores what to do with persistent
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  obtrusive, thoughts and how to exercise them from Gaining or
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  holding any control, over the individuals mental process.
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  The mother notes, quote thoughts are real entities, which usually
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  lasts until they are realized. Some people are obsessed by
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  their thoughts. They think of something, and the
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  thought returns and goes round and round in their heads as if
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  it were something from outside. But it is their own formations
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  returning again and again, and striking the mind that has
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  formed them, that is one aspect of the matter.
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  Did you ever have the experience of a thought taking the form of
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  words or a sentence in your mind and returning over and over
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  again? But if you were clever enough to
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  take a piece of paper and a pencil and write it down, that
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  is the end of it, it won't return anymore.
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  You have thrown it out of yourself.
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  The thing is added little satisfaction.
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  It is manifested itself, sufficiently and it won't return
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  and there is something more interesting still.
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  If you have a bad thought that annoys and disturbs you write it
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  down, very attentively, very carefully.
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  Putting as much Consciousness and will, as you can, then take
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  the piece of paper and with concentration, tear it up with
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  the will that the thought will be turn up in the same way. that
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  is how you will get rid of it and quote, Reference SRI
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  aurobindo and the mother living within the yoga approach to
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  psychological health and growth. Disturbances of Mind obsessive
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  and compulsive thoughts Pages. 32 to 35