Hi SG, Thank you for your post and questions.
As you stated, unconscious thoughts are thoughts that we are not conscious of. This means there is no possibility of recognizing them, identifying them, or otherwise consciously doing anything with them at all.
You said, “it seems that the only way to become aware of unconscious thoughts is when the emotion is already in our psyche…”. So, let me ask you a question (it’s rhetorical 😊) – How do you know the emotion or feeling you are speaking of came from an unconscious thought? Unless you are so skilled and experienced in observing your thoughts, in understanding how and why they create the feelings they do and how the feelings create emotions, there is no way to know the emotion you are speaking of came from an unconscious thought. However, maybe you are very advanced and have a good command of these faculties. I don’t know you, so there is no way I could tell.
Focusing efforts on trying to recognize unconscious thoughts, at our level of evolution, is a waste of time. It would be much more advantageous and rewarding to begin to understand how thinking begins, what kinds internal and external influences contribute to thinking and what effects or processes follow thinking. This would be far more beneficial evolution wise than to chase unconscious thoughts, which is like looking for an invisible man.
Thank you for the quote from Billy. I don’t remember reading this, but I’ll assume it has been precisely translated into English with all of the proper meanings and nuances.
Billy is describing the influences we are all subject to each and every moment of our lives. Of course, the news media and social media and everything related impacts us. Other people influence us through their speech, thoughts, feeling and emotions. These things, and many other things, influence our thinking, feelings, emotions and behaviors. This is part and parcel of the internal work that we need to do. These things influence us – but they don’t have to. Or, in other words, you don’t have to “become infected”. This is one aspect of what I was talking about in the video when I said, “It’s not what they say, it’s how we react.” Does this provide any better explanation, or have I gone off the deep end?
To the core of your question:
If you don’t want to “become infected”, then learn about your thought process and specifically: learn how and why views, opinions, feelings, actions, and new media etc., affect you. Learn why you react as you do when these influences reach you. I think you will find, if you search your thinking honestly, that it’s you that is the reactionary force that needs to be tamed – not the external influences.
Does this answer your question or is there something I missed or that needs to be expanded upon?
Salome,
Mike