Working On The Obsessive Mind

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Working on the Obsessive Mind:

From 2002-2009, NBC aired a show called “Monk.” In it, a man named Adrian Monk was able to solve crimes using his attention to detail, which derived from his obsessive-compulsive disorder. In real life, however, obsessive people run into more obstacles than they climb.

An obsessive mind starts as a way of keeping someone aware of possible problems. When healthy, worries can point out things to us that we might not have seen. However, when worries take hold of a person, they can ruin them. This is true even if someone is still functional in society.

Worry and Rumination:

Worry is a sense we all know. It is there to remind us of things we might otherwise miss. However, more often than not, worry makes us irrational. We worry about not locking the house door or leaving the stove on even though we never do. When we indulge in worry, these thoughts become a vicious cycle that has us on edge even in our own homes.

Rumination is a focus on past events. We remember things so that we can learn from them, but when rumination becomes unhealthy, we use our memory to punish ourselves. We rub our noses into past mistakes and never let them go. This mindset will not only deflate us but also make future embarrassments likely.

Obsessive Behaviors:

When worry and rumination reach their peak, we grasp for control. For instance, checking a doorknob we have just locked is an obsessive behavior. We just locked it, of course it’s locked, but some part of the obsessive mind demands extra assurance. Then, when the extra check of the door handle becomes routine, we might have to check it two more times. We might start the process again when we step out of our car and lock it.

Other obsessive behaviors include obsessive hand washing, avoiding cracks in the pavement, and insisting that things be ordered in very specific ways. Some people might do these things and still function in society, but others become so obsessed that they can’t leave the controlled environment of their homes.

You Can’t Just Tell Your Mind to Stop:

According to Cognitive-Behavior-Therapy.com , you can’t just tell your mind to stop worrying or stop being obsessive. As a matter of fact, psychologists have discovered that the attempt to block some thoughts from awareness leads to an equal and opposite reaction in which the very thoughts you’re trying to suppress come swinging back with a vengeance. It’s like when someone tells you not to think of something. You’ll always think of it because they brought it up.

The answer in psychology is to never suppress a thought or action. You can see this when you think about someone trying to diet. The amateur dieter will swear off something like sugar. Doing so fetishizes sugar. They might not consume a single sugar cube for a whole month, but if they have made sugar into a desired, forbidden item, a sugar binge is inevitable.
The dieter will reward themselves with “just one” cookie at lunch one day and be done with whole packages of Twinkies and Oreos by the end of the night.

Overcoming Obsessive Thinking:

You have to learn to live with and cope with an obsessive mind. Work on one worry or one issue at a time. Slowly decrease the number of times you wash your hands per day, or the number of times you jiggle a handle to make sure it’s locked. Dive into the deeper worries and ruminations that started the obsessions and learn better coping mechanisms. Stay with this healing process and seek professional help if necessary.

Michael Sutherland

Michael Sutherland is the founder of TrueCosmic and a devoted student and practitioner of Neville Goddard teachings. His path to this work was not academic — it was forged in crisis. Raised as a devout Jehovah Witness and Baptist, Michael walked away from the church at eighteen and spent the next 25 years in what scripture calls the far country — the prodigal son, wandering. He built a life by the world rules, searching without knowing what he was searching for. When the biggest crisis of his life arrived, he turned back — not to the church, but to scripture itself. Through Neville Goddard teachings he found what the church had never shown him: that the God of scripture is not an external being to be feared and appeased. God is your own awareness. Your own consciousness. Your own imagination. The I AM within. What he discovered was not a set of Neville Goddard principles — these are cosmic laws, written about not only in the Bible but across every ancient spiritual tradition the world over. The same truth, expressed in different language, in every age. The law of consciousness operates whether we are aware of it or not. We are manifesting constantly — the wanted and the unwanted alike. Understanding how this law works allows us to work with it consciously and intentionally, directing it toward the experiences we actually desire rather than the ones our unexamined assumptions are silently producing. In 2017, guided by two mentors — Dr Bruno R Cignacco and Roupa Jetto, a hypnotherapist and Buddhist practitioner — Michael had his first transcendent experience during deep meditation. In 2018 came something he could never have sought or engineered: what is described across traditions as a Kundalini awakening. A sound like rushing wind in both ears. An electrical current rising from the base of the spine, so intense it seemed impossible to survive. Every experience that followed — out of body states, movement along the spinal cord, sensations inside the skull — was documented in scripture, passage by passage, hidden in plain sight. This is not something that can be earned or manufactured. It is grace. According to scripture, it is every soul birthright — every one of us will experience this unfolding, in this lifetime or another. Michael does not share this to define himself above anyone else. He shares it because it confirmed, beyond any doubt, that what Neville Goddard taught is true — and because that confirmation is the foundation on which TrueCosmic was built. TrueCosmic today is home to the most comprehensive Neville Goddard library available online — 292 lectures — alongside an academy of courses, masterclasses and workshops, and 13 specialist coaches serving students across every continent. At its heart is a global community of over 92,000 members, all discovering what happens when you begin to work consciously with the law that was always operating anyway. The invitation is simple: become aware of the law. Understand how it works. And begin, deliberately, to use it.

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