MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thinking. If the essence of existence exists then it is essential. To think we can be excluded from it is to think changing thought is more powerful and able than that which is indivisible and does not change.  Thoughts of this nature undermine our human experience and functional capacity - they do not have any effect on Reality, Truth, or Life - while they can and do have dramatically traumatic effects on how we think of Life and as a result how we dysfunctionally choose to act outwardly.Choices last only as long as they are chosen. Reality need not be chosen to be real. Introducing thinking to what we have aligns it with reality and so allows us to realize and fully utilize our human functional capacity.  Choosing to imagine that thinking about thinking itself becomes reality and thus our self corrupts the primary nature of thinking. To imagine that the basis of reality is only what we think suggests there is no reality other than insanity. This primary induced breach in thought fractures and corrupts all subsequent thoughts and causes enormous instability and conflict that affects all of us.  Written human history speaks to the violence and discord perpetuate by this viewpoint. Mental addiction at its root is induced insanity - meaning it is a choice.  It seems crazy to freely choose this condition but lies acting as truth have sick thoughts appear as all we can do, all we can have and thus all we can act on. The only one that can undo this is the doer of this. If there were no wiser inate option then there would be no other choice and we would not suffer inner conflict, emotional turmoil and mental anguish, since it would be all that is possible, and the only thing we can do - and thinking about it at all, wondering what is wrong, would not occur. Obsessive thinking is an option.  We are aware we are aware and to understand this is to reaffirm our greater knowing awareness so thoughts act on inspiration rather than  desperation.  We know better or would not feel worse when we are choosing the worst option. Trying chronically to feel better, overcome or get through this disturbance is an admission of, and the attempt to manage,  the imposition of this condition. To instigate opinions that refute reality is one way of experiencing life.  Sick choices are choices freely made hoping sickness will cure what it creates. Addiction is based on a lie and so appears to twist fate and all other right into wrong. There is never any requirement to impulsively choose to react and set the chain reaction of obsessive thinking in motion - no matter what we think. Obsessive thinking becomes obvious when contemplating any Absolute concept; Life, Reality, Truth, Love….all sorts of ideas will re-act up to fight for other ideas that have no basis other than to be thought of as true. Peace as our nature makes any disturbance obvious. Seeing thought-centered thoughts accurately allows them to be processed correctly. Not choosing them becomes as easy as the option to choose them. Sanity is stable and easy to restore since the this natural. Right is right because it works every time.  Wrong never works no matter how long we rely on it and the stress created trying to prove it may or can work.  Might, like may, maybe, or possibly are mighty words.  Considering what is happening is considerate. There is no fight in our natural awakened state of contemplative meditation. contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thinking. If the essence of existence exists then it is essential. To think we can be excluded from it is to think changing thought is more powerful and able than that which is indivisible and does not change.  Thoughts of this nature undermine our human experience and functional capacity - they do not have any effect on Reality, Truth, or Life - while they can and do have dramatically traumatic effects on how we think of Life and as a result how we dysfunctionally choose to act outwardly.  If we strive to act principled it is because we are aware of unprincipled thoughts. Relying on unprincipled thoughts and think we become the image they reflect is like imagining we are only the image we see in a mirror. Thoughts are imagined.  So-called self-centered thinking is thinking-centered thinking. What is centered in thinking about thinking is more thinking about itself - not ourselves.  We are free to think what we want and are just as free to feel the effects of contempt, internal conflict, and fear we create. Ignoring the effects does not diminish their impact. It is naturally difficult to live with any resistance to what is happening. This form of alleged reality as sanity is induced insanity. The greatest form of substance abuse, that is to think that invisibility means substance must not exist - and so the lack of substance is all that exists. Lies have no basis in reality and only seem to in misunderstood reality. The "under" part of understanding offers the vision to see what cannot be seen visibly. This is the same with the "sub" part of substance. Our standing and stances are positions we choose. Vision is based on understanding accurately aligned with Knowing. What starts with each of our acquiescence to submit to ideas that are not true as truth leads to social ills. We are culpable for propping up this broader mistaken behavior by thinking we have nothing to do with it and thus stand by quietly - while others scream - thinking there is nothing we can do or that can be done.  To think that nothing is the best we can do is a death wish for non-existence, a suicidal thought or tendency accurately reflecting the addictive nature of obsessive thinking. .  If nature is natural it is our nature.  If essence is essential then it is our essence.  Reality and stability do not come or go with the rising and falling mood swings of trending thoughts. Realizing our human functional capacity is dependent on sanity to express our principled nature, naturally.  Thinking about thinking as our source requires we fix every unstable thought to be whole.  Thinking about Knowing as our Absolute Source stabilizes all thoughts simultaneously. The natural order has never been out of order even when induced insanity imagine it so. We can’t do enough to stop what we insist on maintaining.  It is easy to stop anything once responsibility for starting it is assumed.  What can seem impossible becomes simple and easy once our basic thought about reality is sane - the undoing of the redoing naturally dissolves. This simple shift stabilizes thinking since it was persistent denial that set distressed mental conflicts and emotion in motion as the insanity of obsessive thinking seemed to destabilized our thinking so traumatically and dramatically as to appear as reality. Only within the confines of insanity can this seem our only possibility.  All that is possible is possible, now always. contact@mentalobsession.com

Daniel is my brother in law, he has been a singer, songwriter for at least the twenty five+ years we've known each other  - and is very adept at digesting and considering ideas as presented.  We will be back and give him the chance to talk about his experience as a result of our discussion - and how his application of the varioius ideas effects his experience.   Consider what you hear by living with it like trying on a new pair of shoes. How these ideas fit will be clear quickly or become clearer gradually after wearing them a while. To have a sense that something is right even while not understanding it completely is the reverse of clearly knowing something is wrong but not knowing what or why. This form of knowing indicates we know more than we think. Often, what will also become clear, is the flurry of desperate thoughts trying to hide in the dark - once the light is turned on.  Seeing wrong clearly is feeling wrong accurately.  Feeling right is wrong or wrong is right is a choice to feel condemned by what we freely choose to think. Proof of our freedom to think as we choose is inherent in the right to think up irrational ideas and then think they are happening to us rather than being caused by us. Words like brilliance, radiance and enlightenment are indications we are aware of the Infinite Light of Knowing Awareness - as the present nature of our awareness. We can get better by talking about what is actually happening rather than harbor ideas that support the misguided, mistaken and maligned thinking that all that is happening is what we think is happening.  Thinking occurs in brains.  Knowing is not based in time or space, so it is always wherever we are - in total - as it is the essence of all that is and all that are no matter what we think.     contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thinking.  Absolute is defined as: pure, free from restriction or limitation, incomparable (nothing to compare, no parts), not relative, or divisible; indivisible. If an Infinite Source exists then it is not a choice, optional or negotiable.      Freedom is the right to choose what we think.  That does not mean our conclusions are right. This  Freedom allows we can choose to feel condemned by what we think.  Condemned thoughts are maligned thoughts only imagined real yet having no applicable purpose, place or use in reality - they are only thought “to be”.  We feel the condemned nature of these thoughts.  This does not condemn us since our existence is based in reality not what and how we think about reality. It is the choice to imagine these thoughts are true that causes depressing impressions. Obsessive thoughts vainly attempt to negate reality and truth. This is impossible.  Trying to fix what doesn’t exist is one more way of thinking of fantasy as reality.   Evidence of mental addiction, which is induced insanity,  is thinking there is no other choice but to chronically redo the same thought. Since we are free to think obsessively it can only be undone by the thinker doing it - nobody else. Choice, as a principle, always allows all possible choices, including all impossible choices.  Ultimately freedom is not only found in the breadth of all options  but the lack of any requirement to choose any of them.  Defending wrong ideas as right is the only seeming option obsessive thoughts have since this form of thinking is unprincipled. Reactive, impulsive and compulsive behaviors reflect this by trying to escape what must, again, be imagined to actually exist to escape from. The maintenance of lies rely on chronic attention.  In induced insanity not choosing is out of the question  - and so sanity is always in question.   Lies do not exist without a thinker imagining what is false is true, or truth is false.  Reality is not at risk so needs no defense.  An Absolute state of Being does not change so it is not a choice.  Essence is essential, not negotiable - there is absolutely we can do to change this.  Rising or falling faith, belief or hope in God, Reality or Truth cannot and does not create more or less of an Infinite unchanging essence.  The seeming stickiness of this point is the fight for the right to choose what cannot be chosen, lost or found.  To think we need faith, belief and hope is the choice to act as though reality depends on us rather than noting we are wholly dependent byproducts of IT.  Fighting for shifting thoughts we think can produce or block what is Absolute -  has the pitch of our rising and falling thoughts mirrored by up and down feelings: mood swings.  The essence of Reality, Truth, LIfe and Love do not change as they are as Essential as Ever-Present. It is not an accident that induced insanity defined as addiction argues against choice  then chooses to fight against the idea of an Absolute Source that is not a choice and cannot be lost so is impossible to find - no matter how long our journey.Thinking fluctuates, not reality. Taking an imagined self seriously is to take a joke personally.  Jokes taken seriously are no laughing matter. contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thinking.  Absolute is defined as: pure, free from restriction or limitation, incomparable (nothing to compare, no parts), not relative, or divisible; indivisible. If an Infinite Source exists then it is not a choice, optional or negotiable.      Freedom is the right to choose what we think.  That does not mean our conclusions are right. This  Freedom allows we can choose to feel condemned by what we think.  Condemned thoughts are maligned thoughts only imagined real yet having no applicable purpose, place or use in reality - they are only thought “to be”.  We feel the condemned nature of these thoughts.  This does not condemn us since our existence is based in reality not what and how we think about reality. It is the choice to imagine these thoughts are true that causes depressing impressions. Obsessive thoughts vainly attempt to negate reality and truth. This is impossible.  Trying to fix what doesn’t exist is one more way of thinking of fantasy as reality.   Evidence of mental addiction, which is induced insanity,  is thinking there is no other choice but to chronically redo the same thought. Since we are free to think obsessively it can only be undone by the thinker doing it - nobody else. Choice, as a principle, always allows all possible choices, including all impossible choices.  Ultimately freedom is not only found in the breadth of all options  but the lack of any requirement to choose any of them.  Defending wrong ideas as right is the only seeming option obsessive thoughts have since this form of thinking is unprincipled. Reactive, impulsive and compulsive behaviors reflect this by trying to escape what must, again, be imagined to actually exist to escape from. The maintenance of lies rely on chronic attention.  In induced insanity not choosing is out of the question  - and so sanity is always in question.   Lies do not exist without a thinker imagining what is false is true, or truth is false.  Reality is not at risk so needs no defense.  An Absolute state of Being does not change so it is not a choice.  Essence is essential, not negotiable - there is absolutely we can do to change this.  Rising or falling faith, belief or hope in God, Reality or Truth cannot and does not create more or less of an Infinite unchanging essence.  The seeming stickiness of this point is the fight for the right to choose what cannot be chosen, lost or found.  To think we need faith, belief and hope is the choice to act as though reality depends on us rather than noting we are wholly dependent byproducts of IT.  Fighting for shifting thoughts we think can produce or block what is Absolute -  has the pitch of our rising and falling thoughts mirrored by up and down feelings: mood swings.  The essence of Reality, Truth, LIfe and Love do not change as they are as Essential as Ever-Present. It is not an accident that induced insanity defined as addiction argues against choice  then chooses to fight against the idea of an Absolute Source that is not a choice and cannot be lost so is impossible to find - no matter how long our journey.Thinking fluctuates, not reality. Taking an imagined self seriously is a joke. Jokes taken seriously are never funny. contact@mentalobsession.com

Tara is a strategic Communication Professional with over 20 years of experience delivering high-impact communication solutions. She has a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, and Associate of Arts all in Communication Studies. Tara's experience includes Writing, Training, Curriculum Development, Change Management, Public Speaking, and of course, Communication Strategy.********************Obsessive thinking is not something we should not be doing. To think we should not be doing what we’re doing is to think that which is happening is not happening. Even illusions thought of as real cause haunting effects. To ask thinking to imagine it should not or isn’t doing what it is doing naturally manifests an experience of inner conflict, emotional turmoil and mental anguish. This induced form of insanity only persists as long as it is thought of as real then will it be thought of as “our” truth, reality and sanity.  To think we should not be doing what we’re doing is to turn what we are free to do into what appears to be something we think we can’t do and thus imagine it is something we can do nothing about and so chronically repeat the thought to prove the point. In fact the point we prove is that the thinkinis wrong, yet since addiction is the attempt to turn what is false into truth by reversing the natural order of nature - what is wrong magincally appears to become right.  To get this point is to pop the bubble of thought that can seem as though we are stuck inside.  Only the present thought thinking we should not be doing what we are perfectly free to do sets this cycle in motion where it is maintained as long as it is thought of as reality.   Living with a sense that sometihng is wrong is noticing something wrong.  When the basis of our reality imagines it is somethiing we can control with thoughts is to have thoughts become what seems like our only reality.  There are few if any things more disruptive to our psyche than to make believe that realtiy is an optional potential of thought.   Our discussion is not an attempt to suggest we not think obsessively.  Our discussion is public to help embrace what we are doing - by hearing others are also doing what we can think is only happening to us, alone, separate from the rest.  What is not true that is thought to be true feels alone since feelings reflect how we are thinking. We are not lonely when we feel alone - it is the thoughts we are having with no basis that we feel are so alone as to have no place in reality - only thought centered reality as our "only" reality.  We need not be driven crazy to be thinking crazy right where we are now.   contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thinking.We are all free to think what we want and so want what we think.  This does not change as the Freedom to do so, like any principle, is not optional or negotiable.  Feeling condemned feels at least one thought condemned to having no basis and no applicable use - while thought of as reality. To imagine thoughts create reality  has no effect on Reality. Yet to think what is wrong is right is to blame reality while it is our thoughts that are opposed. Conflicted ideas seem to have a life of their own while we think it is life that is impossible. Feelings condemned and in contempt will remain as long as false belief is maintained to be true, it can and most often will be thought of as our reality while it is only a thought. Our discussion’s aim is not to stop this irrational trend but to embrace the doing of it so to allow it be seen as a choice so undoing it by not redoing it is also freely seen as a possible choice. The Knowing Nature of Nature is Perfect Peace since IT does not change. Nothing can be simpler. We Know Peace since essence is essential.  To feel disturbed, discomforted, disconnected and alone is how body language speaks of the nature of our thinking. Thinking creates feelings as effects offering depth to mental perspective. To think things are separate is to induce division within our greater capacity to utilize the natural vision of understanding that can see substance as the basis of Reality.  Mental vision relies on understanding to clearly see what can otherwise be thought of as invisible and this wrongly presumed unknowable.  Misunderstanding is at the root of addiction, where lies, ego as thought appear become our self while it is only thought centered in thought creating the depressing impression. Lies rely on the idea they are the only thing they cannot be: true.  This sense of division opposes vision having the keeper of the lie act like they are blind to the effects suffered.  This is not self serving but thought serving thought trying to turn inanity into sanity.  Sages, gurus and prophets have long mentioned that we are not our thoughts - and in modern terms this means egoistic ideas of our self have no basis other than what delusional imagined about them. The ever-present essence of nature is essential and so thought cannot think itself in or out of its nature. We are free to try yet to use absolute freedom to create any sense of condemnation as conceived reality reveals how thinking opposing reality missed the loving and generous Nature of Nature freely allowing us to think and thus do as we please. The inanity of induced insanity seems to exist and persist only as long as we insist on resisting how we are thinking - Now. contact@mentalobsession.com

Tara is a strategic Communication Professional with over 20 years of experience delivering high-impact communication solutions. She has a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, and Associate of Arts all in Communication Studies. Tara's experience includes Writing, Training, Curriculum Development, Change Management, Public Speaking, and of course, Communication Strategy.********************We are free to think what we want but that right does not mean what we think is right. Feeling condemned, conflicted, and lonely is our greater awareness revealing we are imagining wrong can be, or is, right. The fight that ensues is not only an addiction to thinking that a lie has power but that obsessive thoughts are or can be real and thus thinking becomes the creator of reality, the ruler of the universe, and all we are or can ever become. The insanity of this line of irrational reasoning can have life feel incomplete, difficult, and impossible while it is the reflection of our thinking that has us feel that way.  Consider Infinite Possibilities and your thinking will see chronic limited thoughts more clearly as your imagination begins to see things actually happening rather than see reality only as it is imagined.  contact@mentalobsession.com

We have thoughts. Thoughts don’t have us. Since we are not thoughts their effects are manifest like any dream. On awakening happy or frightening effects disappear. Reality as pure consciousness is not a product of imagination. Imagined reality is not something to let go of - but to be seen clearly as imagined - nothing more than a thought.  Once fantasy is not seen as reality there is nothing to mistakenly think of as serious or personal so getting the light-hearted joke becomes funny. Thinking that delusion can be held onto also disappears. An Infinite Source asks nothing since It Is All That Is IT gives everything. To think IT withholds from us It's natural abundance is to witness how quickly wrong thinking thought to be right flips the narrative.  The thought that what is Infinite could be lacking is the doubtful awareness of a thought lacking substance - thought of as reality.  Reality is our nature - not a place to go or a thing to get more or less of.  To search and seek is the claim something is lost. To search for what cannot be lost is to endlessly search for what cannot be found.  Reality does not change when thinking about it changes. Humans obsessively think about the "mysteries" in the universe while the actual mystery is why we continue and not notice the problem . We need not think we are lying to be subject to the wary effects of lying. Neither do we need to think of all that is happening for it all to be happening, now.  Thinking does not conclude reality. Thinking seems conclusive only to limited thoughts.  Reality is real regardless of how or what we think. Seen clearly this is freedom, seen unclearly it is seen as the reverse; a threat to our thinking so a sense of condemnation naturally follows. We are not condemned, since we are not how or what we think even when the thinking we choose is condemned to failure. If we didn't know better, if we didn't have a greater knowing awareness than our thoughts, we would not clearly and correctly feel so wrong.  Trying to feel better about what is wrong is addictive behavior, since it is an addiction to the thought that it is all we can do that sets reactive, impulse be and compulsive behaviors in motion.  Thoughts are actions and their content is chosen. Voluntary behaviors begin with the directed action of a thought.  Cause precedes effects just as thoughts generate feelings, words, belief, faith and hope. Belief in faithless things is a thoughtless effort. contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thoughts.Concerning induced mental problems there is no greater impact on our experience than choices. To think how we think of things is all that is happening is to think all that is happening is only what we think. Producing internal conflict between what is presumed to be happening and that which is actually happening is a byproduct.  To think it is anyone or anything else causing our problem is to act as though there is nothing we can do about the problem.  Evidence of this is continuing to act blindly to what we are chronically re-choosing, restarting, and redoing.. To try to feel better about this is to get better at avoiding the cause while acting oblivious to things getting worse. This is the addictive cycle that uses denial, defiance, and delusion as its chronic reactive defense. No matter how loud or long the defense delusion will never be real. To induce the state of belief that it can or will is the inanity of induced insanity.  Reality has no defense or fight since it is not insecure, uncertain, doubtful, or unstable.  The Absolute does not change and what does not change cannot be at risk of changing.  What does not change could not be simpler.  Addiction to thought is not wrong thoughts but duly due to thinking they are right. The many branches of this twisted thinking are all fractured states of imagining that thinking creates reality rather than manifests or causes effects that we feel.Causing inner conflict, emotional turmoil, and mental anguish are all indications that something is wrong.  Even within induced insanity, we have an active bodily guidance system that accurately provides information indicating that we know more than we think. To think of this awareness as something to get over is how our body language appears backward, like a page of text in a mirror, and so is read backward so the sick, addictive infectious strain on our brain is maintained. This form of thought will not be fixed as long as this insanity of fixation on thought is thought to be reality - will it be thought of as our only sane choice.  Reality and Truth do not rely on thought for their existence. Thought is wholly dependent on Reality and Truth for the possibility to choose so freely as to think our only choice is insanity.  contact@mentalobsession.com

Tara is a strategic Communication Professional with over 20 years of experience delivering high-impact communication solutions. She has a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, and Associate of Arts all in Communication Studies. Tara's experience includes Writing, Training, Curriculum Development, Change Management, Public Speaking, and of course, Communication Strategy. We are here to dismantle the opinions of a presumed self centered in thoughts thinking of themselves. To think such thoughts center  our self is to miss that thoughts are centered in thoughts.  To try to create or maintain this self creation of reality in thought is to think obsessively about thinking. This false sense of self is a lie and so has “our truth” and “our reality opposed to actual truth as reality. We can think all sorts of things that are not true and think of them as truth but not without causing effects that destabilize our experience by causing stress.  Thoughts manifest the effects we feel. Feeling disconnected is feeling thoughts that have no basis in reality as the basis of reality. This backward-addictive thinking vainly claims we are or can be disconnected from reality as a distraction to avoid reckoning with inescapable Truth as Reality. Wearing these sorts of thoughts bears on our psyche and wears us inside out and has not been a good look for humanity. . An Absolute Source is Perfect Peace since there are no sliding scales that rise and fall or parts to conflict with any or all in that which does not change.   An Absolute State of Being remains stable as our thoughts change. Imagine That. Imagine stability is our basis rather than chaos, conflict and calamity. This episode focuses on the Third Step of Alcoholics Anonymous as we continue to expand our conversation to include an Absolute Source as a non-negotiable or optional State of Being that we and all things share equitably, indivisibly and indiscriminately as our common nature.  There cannot be any exceptions to what is Absolute - so only wrong thoughts - thought of as truth are depressing, demeaning and degrading.  This line of irrational thought also includes right thoughts imagined to be wrong. A lie is a lie in any direction. There seems no end or escape from any thought or its consequences that we insist on restarting over and over again.  When freedom to choose condemns us it is not freedom but choices imagined real that are condemned since they have no basis other than the right we have to think wrong can be or is right. Reading our body language is easy when we’re not hell bent on turning the clearly posted sign's upside down. Images in mirrors are always reversed so when imagination is thought of as reality we walk backward witnessing only the results of the collision course we have chosen to turn our back to and act as though life is complicated rather than be bothered to notice it is simply the premise of our thinking.  We are designed to survive - and thrive. Love does not take so cannot create misgivings. It is mistaken thinking that is the source of our problems - especially when we think it is not. We Know We Know and are Aware We Are Aware.  This is worth mentioning, discussing and admitting.  Our thoughts are naturally aligned with Truth even while manifesting effects that consume our attention and mistakenly seem to be all we can do. Not so. Let’s talk. Questions, comments, interests?  Please let us know.  contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thoughts.Free choice is the freedom to choose anything, everything, and nothing. Simply because we have the right to think what we want doesn’t make what we think right. Choice is the will to want even  enough is never enough. Not choosing is a principle of choice.  We are free to think what we want and that includes any and all consequences. If our calculation is right we get what we thought we wanted.  If our calculus is wrong the consequence of circumstance is the curriculum to learn from our mistake. Dismissing the learning curve is how shortsighted thoughtlessness reactively repeats its performance. Reaction is one common denominator of obsessive thoughts. Another is that thoughts lacking substance equal zero. Zero is not a number so it does not count. No substance equals no applicable, productive or constructive purpose in reality and so is useless. Learning to live on life’s terms means learning to adjust to what happens as it happens. It is not wishful, should’ve, would’ve, or could’ve mindless wandering but an actualization of aligning thought with the terms Life prescribes, as prescribed. To any degree, thinking is used presumed to be the primary basis for our existence overcoming the disturbing effects of this narrative may feel imperative but can never be accomplished.  Feeling wrong as though we’ve been wrong will continue for as long as this irrational line of thinking continues. Mirrors reflect images just as thoughts are imagined reflections. Images in mirrors are reversed, and so too does our thinking become backward.  Lies only exist in thought, any claim of their reality is a choice to fight against Reality. To think what is false is true is an impossible battle. Our experience primarily suffers while thinking is repeatedly asked to do what cannot be done.  It is this misuse of thinking that is the problem - not thinking. Addiction is the vain attempt to reverse nature’s order. Acting out of order and developing multiple mental and physical disorders is a guaranteed byproduct of trying to accomplish this impossibility.  Lies only attempt to be what they are not and can never be. No amount of faith or belief will make a lie true.  We know better and are guilty for the shame produced. This would not happen if we did not know better.  Reactive, impulsive and compulsive behaviors openly, as a mirror reflects images even while we disclaim their value. Not looking does not make what is here disappear. Trying to escape rather than value these effects further exemplifies how addictive thinking feeds on itself. To act as though what is happening is not actually happening is a prayer that desensitization - the numbing effect of denial as the psychic anesthesia of ignorance - will aid in escaping culpability for the imposition of this form of insanity. To put ourself asleep to avoid culpability is an excuse - what would there be to excuse if we had nothing to do with it?  Thinking this way is a death wish especially when we think to our “self” it is a secret.  To imagine that not existing is our only salvation is a suicidal tendency.  We Are Present where all things occur and all possibilities exist.  Healing is natural when we wake up to see imagination is imagined. contact@mentalobsession.com

Tara is a strategic Communication Professional with over 20 years of experience delivering high-impact communication solutions. She has a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, and Associate of Arts all in Communication Studies. Tara's experience includes Writing, Training, Curriculum Development, Change Management, Public Speaking, and of course, Communication Strategy. Tara’s personal study passion is thoughts and all things thinking. Through all years of formal education in communications, Tara has not once come across a course in “self-talk,” so she brings it to the table in all of her endeavors.   Step Two - sees that if there is an Absolute Source it is primary to existence, not optional or negotiable.  Essence is essential so nothing and no one can be exceptions to this - including contrary thoughts imagined to define Reality or our “self”.   If IT can help us with our problem(s) we are asked to consider if there can be anything greater than the limits of what we think of our thoughts, as though they define the life of our self.  Once this possibility is imagined the limit of any and all ideas can be seen as the adventure in f everything always beginning rather than a defensive end maintaining an ideas about our reality that are not true. To see thoughts clearly is to see through them rather than imagine they have any solidity.  Clarity sees how central mistaken ideas presumed right are to inner conflict and noticing that we could not see our thoughts if we were in stuck in them, or to them as if we can drown in thoughts drowning in more thoughts. Our supposed reality seems to hold us hostage to mistaken beliefs that have caused an intoxication with grievous misgivings to obscure the choices made that cause the conflict while clearly experiencing their depressing effects. Freedom to think whatever we want means we can each think differently about the same thing. Fighting over words that convey Spiritual Principles is a distraction to control and avoid reckoning with nature’s nature.  We Know we Know and our stable source does not change even while we twist and turn our thoughts. Reality Is as Truth Is: Pure Consciousness as Infinite, Love as Life Is Light as Existence Is Ever-Present-Knowing-Awareness.How we wrongly think about reality is a problem with thinking - not reality. Imagine That.  As It IS, We Are. contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thoughts.Free choice is the freedom to choose anything, everything, and nothing. All, any or no options are possible choices. Choice is will. Will always wants even when wanting more of less, less of more, or nothing at, or of, all. The freedom not to choose is a choice that is always an option. We are free to think what we want so we want what we choose including any and all consequences. If our calculation is right we get what we thought we wanted.  If our calculus is wrong we get the exact curriculum needed to learn from our mistake.  To think consequences are not what we want dismisses leaning from the value of our thought’s shortcoming. This reaction is a common denominator for obsessive thoughts. Another common denominator for any thought lacking substance is Zero. Learning to live on life’s terms means learning to adjust to what happens as it happens. It is not wishful, should’ve, would’ve, or could’ve mindless wandering but an actualization of aligning thought with the terms Life prescribes.  Life is Absolute and Responsible for the nature of nature which is our nature. As Beings, we have life forms for which we are Absolutely Responsible. This means Freedom, Responsibility, and Choice are not options but represent the stability by which our Being nature can be expressed to realize our human form’s capacity. Well-being is based on how well we express our shared nature that always gives all to all that are and all that is. All this to say there can be no problems, conflict, struggle, anguish, or insanity in what Is Absolute. Problems are based on make-believe as we struggle to create and maintain our own reality and truth.  It is no wonder trying to accomplish this has us think Reality, Truth and Life are difficult and a complicated, mysterious  struggle while we chronically continue to press the issue as though it is possible.  Thoughts are imagined, imagine that.  Thoughts aren’t reality so don’t create reality.  Thoughts manifest effects - if we don’t like the effect we are perfectly free to change the thought. To think this is not correct is to think you have no other choice. Addiction is based on imaging that can be or is true.   Getting better doesn’t always feel better. Feeling better is getting better at feeling whether we like what we feel or not.  Listen up, Watch your words both inner and outer - they reveal your thoughts. Notice how changing thoughts changes your experience.  contact@mentalobsession.com

Tara is a strategic Communication Professional with over 20 years of experience delivering high-impact communication solutions. She has a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, and Associate of Arts all in Communication Studies. Tara's experience includes Writing, Training, Curriculum Development, Change Management, Public Speaking and of course, Communication Strategy. Tara’s personal study passion is thoughts and all things thinking. Through all years of formal education in communications, Tara has not once come across a course in “self-talk,” so she brings it to the table in all of her endeavors.  This episode focuses on Step One of the Twelve Steps.  Since the disease of addiction is mental it is lying that is central to the reactive nature of obsessive thinking. To think lies have power is to think they are real and as their creator our seeming reality - who we think we are - becomes only what we think. Since lies attempt to reverse nature’s order then belief in them has us begin to think backward so right is wrong, false is true and stop means go and so forth:  meaning we couldn’t possibly be responsible for doing what we’re doing by causing the effects we claim to be happening to us. Any thoughts?  We're happy to hear from you and answer any questions or pass on your ideas.  contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thoughts.if we are the agents of change that choose conflicted thoughts then we can easily get better by relying on and expressing the nature of our essence rather than relying on ideas that are not true.  Obsessive thoughts are not an accident or a curse - they are choices - and like all addictive behaviors they seem to happen to us to justify the irresponsibility of thinking we have nothing to do with them and thus can do nothing about them. Managing insanity presumes there is something to manage.  Out of control is unmanageability since there is nothing to manage even while delusional thoughts are “our” reality. This thinking suggests insanity is sane which is like denying a lie is a lie and so it’s supposed management maintains the depressing effect.  Dreams, like obsessive thoughts, as long as we they are real do we think we are in them - until we wake and realize we were only having them. We can’t be what we have anymore than an eye can see itself. Think of thoughts in this way.Any insistence to maintain conflicted thoughts has the thought appear to impose itself on us. To claim we have nothing to do with it mirrors the claim there is nothing we can do about it. All of these conclusions are lies. Responsibility, Freedom, and Choice are fundamental principles of mental health. There are no victims or insanity in reality. As Sentient Beings sensitivity is intelligence so we cannot be too smart for our own good - though we can dumb our experience down by narrowing the focus of our awareness to conclude the nature of truth as reality is only what we think. Sobriety is recovery from symptomatic addictions induced by imagining fantasy is reality. Reactive, impulsive, and compulsive behaviors all fit into this category as they are based on a lie that lies have the power to become reality. Reality as an Infinite Source cannot be more or less than it is since it is not a quantity but the quality of perfect peace. Emotional sobriety is sane living. Essence can seem unseen until understanding sees it does not need to be thought of to be essential for existence.  We Know more than we think or mental anguish would be a normal disturbance and not feel uneasy. Pain tells us something is wrong. To misread this to mean run faster to escape, get over it, or feel better about it is to insist the problem causing the pain persists.Zero is not a number. It is the concept of nothing used to understand everything in mathematical terms. Math is said to be the universal language. If understanding the universe comes from no-thing then considering Infinite Indivisibility may seem beyond comprehension while it is certainly possible to imagine an ever Present Knowing Awareness is here now where Life Is, where we always are, as we are. An Absolute State, like our Present Knowing Awareness, has there here and then now since seeking to find what, where, why and when are no longer places to go further or get more of to find what cannot be found has never been lost but to thought lost in perpetual thought thinking of itself as reality.   The Present is enough as enough as there is no more or less to Know or find in Absolute Present Knowing Awareness.  We are as We Are NowHere.  Period. contact@mentalobsession.com

Tara is a strategic Communication Professional with over 20 years of experience delivering high-impact communication solutions. She has a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, and Associate of Arts all in Communication Studies. Tara's experience includes Writing, Training, Curriculum Development, Change Management, Public Speaking and of course, Communication Strategy. Tara’s personal study passion is thoughts and all things thinking. Through all years of formal education in communications, Tara has not once come across a course in “self-talk,” so she brings it to the table in all of her endeavors.  We continue to take advantage of each other’s perspective, experience, flexibility and ability as we see how words can “take shape” to facilitate pointing at our Infinite Present Knowing Awareness. contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thoughts.if we are the agents of change that choose conflicted thoughts then we can easily get better by relying on and expressing the nature of our essence rather than relying on ideas that are not true.  Obsessive thoughts are not an accident or a curse - they are choices - and like all addictive behaviors they seem to happen to us to justify the irresponsibility of thinking we have nothing to do with them and thus can do nothing about them. Managing insanity presumes there is something to manage.  Out of control is unmanageability since there is nothing to manage even while delusional thoughts are “our” reality. This thinking suggests insanity is sane which is like denying a lie is a lie and so it’s supposed management maintains the depressing effect.  Dreams, like obsessive thoughts, as long as we they are real do we think we are in them - until we wake and realize we were only having them. We can’t be what we have anymore than an eye can see itself. Think of thoughts in this way.Any insistence to maintain conflicted thoughts has the thought appear to impose itself on us. To claim we have nothing to do with it mirrors the claim there is nothing we can do about it. All of these conclusions are lies. Responsibility, Freedom, and Choice are fundamental principles of mental health. There are no victims or insanity in reality. As Sentient Beings sensitivity is intelligence so we cannot be too smart for our own good - though we can dumb our experience down by narrowing the focus of our awareness to conclude the nature of truth as reality is only what we think. Sobriety is recovery from symptomatic addictions induced by imagining fantasy is reality. Reactive, impulsive, and compulsive behaviors all fit into this category as they are based on a lie that lies have the power to become reality. Reality as an Infinite Source cannot be more or less than it is since it is not a quantity but the quality of perfect peace. Emotional sobriety is sane living. Essence can seem unseen until understanding sees it does not need to be thought of to be essential for existence.  We Know more than we think or mental anguish would be a normal disturbance and not feel uneasy. Pain tells us something is wrong. To misread this to mean run faster to escape, get over it, or feel better about it is to insist the problem causing the pain persists.The denial of thoughts we don't think we are thinking will be equally balanced with  the denial of things possible as impossibilities.  What we think internally will be used to create circumstances we used to pretend our wrong thought is right.  Imagination is not true, it is not you, it is something we do. Imagine that. Imagined power is not real no matter how much it is thought to be. Thoughts can express the real and true power of Reality and Truth - since thoughts are channels; staying tuned will allow our expression to realize things previously thought unimaginable. Addiction relies on fighting imagination. What does not exist cannot be a problem, though we can apparently think otherwise. There is no struggle in Reality or Truth.  It is only imagination thought of as reality that causes mayhem, destruction and is witnessed by feeling unstable, doubtful and uncertain.  We are free to think what we want so when we feel condemned it is the thinking we imagine to be reality that is condemned since it has no basis - even when we think it is real and all there is to think about. contact@mentalobsession.com

Tara is a strategic Communication Professional with over 20 years of experience delivering high-impact communication solutions. She has a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, and Associate of Arts all in Communication Studies. Tara's experience includes Writing, Training, Curriculum Development, Change Management, Public Speaking and of course, Communication Strategy. Tara’s personal study passion is thoughts and all things thinking. Through all years of formal education in communications, Tara has not once come across a course in “self-talk,” so she brings it to the table in all of her endeavors.  Tara is a new friend and interested in the Mental Obsession Discussion after years of academic research.  She offers a great chance to see if we can boil down some of the basic concepts to make approaching, swallowing and more easily digesting the food for thought presented.  We'll see as we go how well we do and also offer the chance to see how and what you do with what you hear.  We are available to hear your thoughts - anytime you’d like. contact@mentalobsession.com

MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date.  Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thoughts.if we are the agents of change that choose conflicted thoughts then we can easily get better by relying on and expressing the nature of our essence rather than relying on ideas that are not true.  Obsessive thoughts are not an accident or a curse - they are choices - and like all addictive behaviors they seem to happen to us to justify the irresponsibility of thinking we have nothing to do with them and this can do nothing about them. Managing insanity wrongly presumes there is actually something to manage.  This is unmanageability and lack of control as out-of-control. Any insistence to maintain conflicted thoughts has the thought appear to impose itself on us. To claim we have nothing to do with it mirrors the claim there is nothing we can do about it. All of these conclusions are lies. Responsibility, Freedom, and Choice are fundamental principles of mental health. There are no victims or insanity in reality. As Sentient Beings sensitivity is intelligence so we cannot be too smart for our own good - though we can dumb our experience down by narrowing the focus of our awareness to conclude the nature of truth as reality is only what we think. Sobriety is recovery from symptomatic addictions induced by imagining fantasy is reality. Reactive, impulsive, and compulsive behaviors all fit into this category as they are based on a lie that lies have the power to become reality. Reality as an Infinite Source cannot be more or less than it is since it is not a quantity but the quality of perfect peace. Emotional sobriety is sane living. Essence can seem unseen until understanding sees it does not need to be thought of to be essential for existence.  We Know more than we think or mental anguish would be a normal disturbance and not feel uneasy. Pain tells us something is wrong. To misread this to mean run faster to escape, get over it, or feel better about it is to insist the problem causing the pain persists.The denial of thoughts we don't think we are thinking will be equally balanced with  the denial of things possible as impossibilities.  What we think internally will be used to create circumstances we used to pretend our wrong thought is right.  Expect people to do what they do and things to happen as they happen.  This is how things are despite what we think.  Quickly the abundance of what is happening will exceed any expections we think we don't have. Dissolution dissolves problems.  There is no resolution needed once there is no problem.  To think it possible to break from reality and then think more and more obsessive thinking proves we can make and have our own reality is to set a course of enormous complexity only to end where we started. To see thoughts as imagined is to see thoughts clearly.  There are no obstructions in clarity so there is nothing to get over, go through or feel better about. Addiction relies on fighting imagination. What does not exist cannot be a problem, though we can apparently think otherwise. Our conversation is about doing what we're doing to be causing the effects we are experiencing.  Seen honestly addiction has no hold over us and cannot condemn us.  Our thoughts, brain and ego cannot attack us since they are illusions. If imagination was reality it wouldn’t be imagined.  There can be no disillusion where illusions are seen as illusions.  And there can be no solution while we insist on maintaining any delusional problem.  contact@mentalobsession.com