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wa assalam..

Identification with one,s mind,which causes thought to become compulsive,not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction,but we don,t realize it because almost every body is suffering from it,so it is considered normal.The incessant mental noise prevents us from finding the true realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.It also creates a false "mind made self" that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.
Thinking has become a disease.Disease happens when things get out of balance.For example, there is nothing wrong with the cells dividing and multiplying in the body,but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism,cells proliferate and we have cancer.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly.Used wrongly,however,it becomes very destructive.To put it more accurately,it is not so much that we use our mind wrongly---we usually don,t use it at all.IT USES US.this is the disease.The instrument has taken us over.The mind uses us,We have falsely identified ourselves with it,so we don,t even know we are its slaves,almost as if we are possessed with out knowing it,and we take the possessing entity to be ourselves.
When someone goes to the doctor and says"i hear a voice in my head" he or she would be most likely send to a psychiatrist.The fact is,that in a very similar way,virtually everyone hears a voice or several voices,in their head all the time,the involuntary thought process continues in our minds non stop.The voices comments,speculates,judges,compares,complains,like s,dislikes and so on...,some times associated with visual images (mental movies).
Is it harmful ? yes.This the biggest obstacle between us and the realization Of Allah swt.unless we learn how to control our thoughts,we can,t learn to turn our mind to our creator.How impossible this demand seems to have " perfect "concentration in salat for five minutes while our mind is used to free thinking for the rest of the day and night.How many of our "Sins" are just related to our uncontrolled thought process.We look at opposite sex because we can,t control our mind,we hate,because our emotions (an interplay between mind and body) takes over,We indulge in false delusions of grandiosity because our mind plays it that way for us.If one calculates,very few of us has the real chance of a physical sin, most of our sins are imaginary.
Sufia,may Allah bless them,after realizing this problem,developed many methods for the control of mind. One such method is WUQOOFE QALBI.
The basic idea behind wuqoofe qalbi is this: Qalb occupies the same significance in our body as "ARSH" in Alam e akbar,so when one concentrates on his/her qalb,fuoozat from ARSH,starts pouring on qalb,even if one has not intended it,this gradually brings the " monkey mind" under control."Try to focus your mind on your qalb,gradually empty your mind from all thoughts,and remain in this state for as long as you comfortably can.The success is in regularity and not on the length of time spend".So the single most vital step on our journey to peace of mind is this: Learn to create a gape in the uncontrolled flow of thinking process,every time you create a gape in the stream of thought,the light of your consciousness grow stronger.

Omega!
I mean OMyGod!