The pull is the energy created by thoughts—the emotional charge that tries to draw us in and carry us away. It’s not the thought itself that causes suffering, but our attachment to it. Mooji’s invitation is clear: don’t hook your trailer to it. Let it pass.
In The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer echoes this truth. Energy is not good or bad—it’s our resistance to it, our clinging, that creates the disturbance. When we attach, nothing moves. Energy gets trapped, and we feel the weight of it.
I know this pattern well. A thought comes—good or bad—and I grab onto it. I replay it, analyze it, reshape it. Rumination has been a familiar habit. My mind locks onto moments I don’t want to let go of—especially past slights or perceived disrespect. I revisit conversations, rewrite them, even distort them to justify how I felt or what I wish I had said.
And for what?
How much do we carry that no longer serves us? How often do we live in moments that don’t even exist anymore?
Fear of the future does the same thing. We step into an unlived moment, feel the fear as if it’s real, and let our bodies react to something that hasn’t happened.
In Don’t Believe Everything You Think, the distinction is simple but freeing: There are thoughts… and then there is thinking.
Having a thought is natural. Participating in the thinking—feeding it, building it, identifying with it—is where we get lost.
I’m learning to notice the thought and relax. To allow it, without becoming it. To let the energy move, instead of storing it inside.
It’s not easy. But this is the practice.
And over time, you become your practice.
You become the one who watches instead of reacts. The one who allows instead of resists. The one who is free, even while thoughts come and go.
Scriptures
“Do not be anxious about anything… and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds.” — Philippians 4:6–7
“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”— Colossians 3:2
Closing Prayer
Lord, Teach me to be still in the presence of my thoughts. Help me not to be pulled by every emotion or story my mind creates. Give me the awareness to observe, the strength to release, and the trust to rest in You instead of my thinking.
Let Your peace move through me freely, unstuck, unblocked, and alive.
