Residual phantom thinking are thoughts born from our habits of thinking. Everything we do or get will be drawn from thoughts we predominantly use in our daily lives.
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Defined outcome: inner clarity
1) Finer distinctions: noisy problems and humming your way out
Awkward silence from personal experience
Why would I spend my energy on this residual phantom thinking
Defined outcome: inner clarity
Core of residual phantom thinking is inner clarity. It’s like when we have thinking pattern for a period of time, let’s say few days. Cluster of thoughts we create with that I call residual afterthought. This residual afterthought brings forth a hum uprooting in the mind-body forming emotions, amplifying beliefs and creating tiny habit-pattern changes in daily lives.
“Tiny” changes that hum created are most challenging of all because they present themselves only when pointed to by someone from the outside world (like friends, family, co-workers) or you simply (but very unlikely at the beginning) become aware of them by yourself.
One of these “tiny” changes I’ve felt when started to do things in unusual manner. I would politely break conversation and tell, from the bottom of my heart, to the person in front something nice about him or her. Nowadays I do it all the time. What this creates is clarity of emotions between two people. It is like magic. It feels like our inner clarity is upgraded.
In that sense, inner clarity is something that comes when personal hum is more potent than noise we get from outside or clutter-noise from the inside. Problems inner clarity puts before us is that it needs peaceful environment and calm mind.
About hum and noise
1) Finer distinctions: noisy problems and humming your way out
In our “objective reality” we like to describe everything from the outside as noise and hum as everything from deep within. Truth is more of a fine distinction between the two.
Lets see how.
Negative hum
Examples:
- Someone tell’s us we are stupid, unreasonable, ugly and we automatically believe him
- Car breaks down and we start blaming circumstances, mechanic or fate
- Feeling sorry for our self
- Feeling out of control
- Feeling powerless
- Feeling trapped
Results of negative hum:
Positive hum
Examples:
- I did this real good
- I’m proud of myself
- Feeling grateful for life
- Acting naturally
- Doing something for someone not asking anything in return
- Taking responsibility for EVERYTHING in our life
Results of positive hum:
| Feelings of | create | that makes you |
| Gratitude | Self acceptance Awareness Empathy Respect Love Life |
Cry |
| Joy | Laugh | |
| Cheerfulness | Be creative | |
| Health | Be aware | |
| Wealth | Do things & become |
Understanding the noise
You know, we humans developed over centuries. Our mind and body functions developed from reacting to planning and acting. But even if our life is not defined by constant threat for survival, we have security instinct embedded deep in our animal part of brain.
I presume you heard this before but one ‘aha moment’ that intrigued me was that people on a basic, animal level are also addicted to human interaction.
Only way to understand a noise is to understand a way it has so strong influence on us. So, one primordial instinct is embedded deep in our subconscious mind. As we mentioned it is our survival instinct. This adrenaline infused sensation can settle any dispute in our head and turn instinctual animal in us. Fearless and focused. But also can paralyze us not to do any action at all (freeze up). You know what I’m talking about.
Noise confuses animal in us and we resort to one thing we know, secure environment we know how to handle. That’s called conformity. Noise makes us complacent (comfortable) because hum we developed is not strong enough to counteract insecurity (uncertainty).
Hum: two sides of one coin
Real life example of very powerful hum is awkward silence. It is awkward because it’s a rare opportunity hum is more potent than noise. This type of hum is neglected by general population and in today’s world of marketing and hard sell it is discouraged to be found. People who are in control of their clarity and hum are of strong will (hard to sell people). They are simply more aware.
Hum, and awkward silence in particular are somewhat disturbing when experienced for the first time or on very rare occasions. Common sense dictates to break that silence right away.
Personally, I don’t do it any more. If I’m alone with my extraordinary mind it can tell me some wonderful things. Like one day I was home sitting before my computer staring at the blank spot on the wall, thinking about all failures in my life. Emotional state was deteriorating fast. When I snapped back and focused on things I’m proud of, conscious ‘control’ was created. Several small ideas came to my mind how to write an article you are reading right now. Awkward silence ‘for the win’ 
(By Astro Guy: Rob’s Goofy Face, on Flickr)If I were to talk to someone and awkward silent moment jumped in, no more sudden need is met to break it. My reasoning is if I listen to hum from another person I’m opening myself to them. This emotional connection is kind of like when we adults communicate with babies. I don’t talk to babies, that would be insane but communication is not lacking in any sense. Weird faces anyone, boo, boo…
Awkward silence from personal experience
I remember the first time experiencing this ‘awkward silence’. It happened like a swarm, immediate outburst of limiting, homophobic and very unpleasant thoughts and feelings that surged through me. Insecurities with a mix of low self esteem, bad combo:
- “Oh no, I’m gay if I connect emotionally with another man.” or
- “Oh no, I’m cheating my girlfriend if I connect with another girl.”
- “Oh no,…” and so on
This simply is not true. Trust yourself. You can control your thoughts, actions and emotions all day long, for years even but strong, resonating and undeniable force of hum will overpower you. Awkward silence is your friend, listen to it, maybe you’ll discover a genius that you already are.
2) Humming sound
One day in a conversation with a friend he asked me how would I describe a hum. My answer to that is simple, Didgeridoo. Sound from this instrument is so powerful, calming and deep. This is something as I sometimes hear hum in my mind.
3) Someone else’s hum
How environmental hum affects yours:
- If hum from outside resonates with you, everything you do (actions) is multiplied (doesn’t matter if its good or bad)
- If someone else’s hum is in total disharmony with you it will act as repellent. Everything around and on some level disharmony will emerge. -> discouraging environment
Note: We already wrote about harmony and disharmony here so I won’t go into details.
Two effects mentioned previously are played on a subconscious level. And only one thing you have to remember about it - hum is like a low frequency sound (bass). You can hear it and even feel it but you don’t know from which direction it comes from. Your assignment is to:
- Fine-tune yourself to hum
- Listen to what it says
4) Do you need control?
Try this (I use this all the time):
- provoke small action-habit change (e.g. use everything in daily life with non dominant hand, I’m right handed so it’s my left hand)
- monitor thoughts and become aware of actions (what do you feel and think about how you perceive your actions – clumsy, awkward, funny, simple, hard)
- monitor your environment reactions to newly created changes (are they amazed, supportive, make fun of you, laugh at you, help you do it, try to understand it-change)
- actively engage in creating distractions for anything (or anyone) not related to the matter at hand. Goal is that nobody asks you “why are you doing this?” (inner clarity is more potent if you don’t have to put in words what you’re doing)
- create small iterations (and don’t use it all the time)
Why? Because small iterations: - do not produce noise you and everyone else can hear, just hum (result: subconscious is cleared of clutter)
- cannot be rejected by your conscious mind (result: doubts and limiting beliefs are bypassed)
- tend to be easier to implement on day to day basis (result: feels like easy to do)
(be aware of common mistake: ”ah, it’s easy, so I don’t have to do it”)
Why would I spend my energy on this residual phantom thinking
Because you are already spending it. Same as with a law of attraction, if you are not aware of using it, someone else will use it to sway you to their own cause, direction or goal.
Important differences
Difference I was confused about was between residual phantom thinking and hum. I came to realize that hum is a material manifestation of thinking. Residual phantom thinking is only a recurring thought in daily life but hum is real decision before act (defined only after act). Some see hum as a strong intention before acting and this is correct only if something is done (acted upon). For example if you have strong intention to workout but don’t do it, your strong intention is wasted energy and most likely will be transformed to noise if you reproach yourself afterwords.
So, hum is something we get from doing, and doing comes from residual phantom thinking.
Noise can create hum too. This is when we feel angry, anxious, depressed and cheated. All of this happens because we ignore control over our lives. Noise can also produce inspiration, conviction, sexual tension and delirious states (football games, baby born, “Merry Christmas” anyone ) but this type of noise is shamelessly used in marketing today 
(dogs in commercials, smiling happy people in a commercial for pills/drugs, smoky happiness, sugar happy people are dancing with joy).
Develop your hum and everything negative mentioned in previous paragraph you will become immune to.
Ramblings of a man
At the beginning I said awareness is only a word without action and I stand by it. After all said we also can see that awareness of thoughts is a good thing. Not if you create discrepancies and noise (clutter).
In case of clutter it’s better not to be aware of surroundings until you develop your inner awareness. Inner awareness is sometimes called subconscious awareness. Some call it clarity of mind. Both descriptions are true. One enigma in my head still is there is no way to know if this awareness (clarity) is a cause or an effect. One is certain though, hum can be cause and effect dependent of level of awareness.
How about you
Tell us your story! Leave a comment or send it via mail.
Do you/can you hear a little mumbling/humming voice?
How do you handle it?
What does it tell you?
Is it created consciously or by default (autopilot life)?
Be aware and develop your hum
/cheers
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Vlado
April 10th, 2012 at 7:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hi Vedran. I found this article a bit hard to read in some parts, but mostly because english is not my first language. I will have to think a bit abut it and read again to fully understand some parts. But that is not why I write right now, I want to share a short story from today because article reminds me about it. I hope it is On Topic
Though yesterday I did have a half of day in nature I was pretty busy with some thing over last few days. I want to finish some work as soon as possible so my mind was all in that thought. Today I kind of snapped a bit. It was a nice and sunny day and I was feeling depressed. I was on the way to do some thing with a car and I sensed it is too much, it is stupid to feel that way because there is no good reason for it. I did some things and in early afternoon I just grabbed my bicycle and went for a long ride. I felt great! I sometimes feel hard to do it because I am lazy to go on my own, but this time I just knew I have to do it, to go and enjoy my day and leave all the work. I did a long tour and now everything hurts but I made my wish for today come true, and a wish form few days ago to try that exact route
. That makes two wishes come true today, simple wishes but I found the very valuable.
I sometimes, like we all do, feel not that good for no good reason, and feeling leads us in a bigger thought and depression. I have no good method to fight it, at least not every time. Today I did, I get out of it and I hope in future to be more aware of it and find a ways to get out of that unwanted state of mind that just take up the energy for nothing.
I share my photos from today with you guys: http://goo.gl/5LYWO
Best wishes, Vlado
Vedran
April 11th, 2012 at 2:26 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hey Vlado, I know the article is a bit hard but it is something I use all the time now for few years back. Sometimes it is hard to put everything in a words
Your tale is exactly what hum represents. My advice to you is when you feel depressed, angry or out of control to do something for yourself, like you did. Or even more powerful is to try doing some random kindness for someone you know or a stranger.
I don’t know how many times this helped me.
Like one time I searched for parking in the city center, you know the one part of town where you can’t find a parking during the day. I was nervous and anxious but stayed very positive. Saw a guy leaving the parking right where I needed it. Great I said after 25minutes of searching for parking. While parked I didn’t know that guy from parking slot stayed behind me all along while I was talking on the phone with my business partner. After a while a guy came up to me, knocked on a window right before I wanted to get out and gave me his ticket for little less that 2 hours of parking.
I was stoned, OMG. I tried to give him money but he wouldn’t accept it. He only said: “Ah, it would be a waste to throw it.” and left smiling.
I was so pumped up with positive energy I could do anything in that moment. What this did for me, it implanted the idea of random kindness. Nowadays I try to do something like that as many times as I can. It’s nice to feel gratitude and also shifts awareness toward more positive in life.
Try it
Nikola
April 11th, 2012 at 6:10 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hello, Vlado!
Thank you for sharing your photos with us, they are great
I have a bit different way of getting out of the negativity. Particularly on days when I feel down and when I’m doing something repetitive and/or boring. The thing that works for me is to enter a meditative state of mind. I achieve it by focusing on my physical part and focusing only on my next move (physical next move). Nothing more, just the next move. Everything else is irrelevant. Forget the end result, forget the trip to that result, forget anything and just focus on the next move. For example, when we were building our country house, we had to transfer thousands of bricks from one spot to another. I wasn’t feeling really springy that day and wasn’t really in a mood to do anything, let alone spend my day walking the yard with bricks
And there were lot of bricks 
So I just focused on my next step. Nothing more, nothing less. Just the next step. I forgot about the red Mount Doom in my yard. I forgot about the distance I had to walk. My mind drifted away and I sorted out through my negative feelings and in two hours or so I was running in the yard with bricks in my hands, crazy smile on my face, having one of the best exercises in my life 
Vlado
April 13th, 2012 at 3:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thx fir sharing your thoughts Nikola and Vedran. Well, yes.. I do know what you are talking abut Nikola. I will try to use something like that more, because sometimes thoughts negative or any other are taking me away when I don’t want that. Baby steps
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Ade
April 20th, 2012 at 12:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I like your idea of random kindness and the story of the guy giving you the parking ticket with extra time…no doubt it made him feel good too and it didn’t “cost” him anything to do that.
People have done that to me before and I remember a friend of mine giving half a pizza to a guy living on the streets..he’d finished with the pizza and the guy was really happy to get the food.
What mindset or thinking do you adopt because I am quite often a bit self absorbed or concentrating on other things that I don’t think about doing something kind for someone ? Also, I think it has to be spontaneous or people might be a bit suspicious of your motives ?
Vedran Sučec
April 20th, 2012 at 2:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hey, Ade welcome!
For the question, my line of thinking is this. If you have an experience and liked it or didn’t like it, either way you will draw some conclusions. Those conclusions can help you form a question as it did for me: “How can I use this to help someone with this knowledge?” or “What this did for me, can this be helpful to someone else and how?” (Question everything it’s fun!)
To clarify, let me share another story
In my local store I really didn’t like how cashier lady was negative all the time. So I tried a different approach from my standard one to “gently avoid” that shop. I made my clear goal, every time I go to that shop I would be positively hyped. My end goal was when I got out of that store that everyone was in a good mood. Few times I felt really stupid and drained but i kept pushing until I got there. I just wanna say it’s wonderful to see people smiling!
(this idea came from the guy giving me his ticket for the parking)
About how self absorbed we are, yep, we sometimes become self absorbed, I’m not an exception as I think nobody is. As you can guess from the store story I was not fueled by some altruistic higher belief but with “selfish” reasons of “I wanna really enjoy shopping there”. In the end it is only good outcome for everyone that matters. If you would practice this simple idea, your mindset will adopt this kind of thinking and very soon you will realize you are thinking something like: “Oh I was burned there, how can I make it right and teach this experience to someone.” or “I helped this girl/guy, how can I do it again?”
This is all awkward in the begging but it becomes really spontaneous and enjoyable the more it is “practiced”