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This is Sam. Sam is from Australia.

He asked this question.

My question pertains to negative intrusive thoughts.

I practice meditation and affirmations, yet sometimes I am plagued by dark and disturbing thoughts that render me feeling ashamed and often depleted in energy.

These thoughts seem to come out of nowhere, often completely unrelated to what I may be doing at the moment they arise.

I consider myself to be a good person, so I find it difficult to understand why these thoughts come into my awareness.

Any light you can shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Sam. This is a good question.

Two things. and then some other

things as well. First of all, when thoughts are intruding upon us, I come from two places generally,

particularly if we're in meditation, even if we're not. Sometimes the thoughts that are intrude

are thoughts and emotions that have been

repressed or suppressed at a certain time in our life. Perhaps there was something we did or didn't

do when we were younger and in order to move ahead with our life we had to suppress those thoughts,

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