{"id":55833,"date":"2019-11-25T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T10:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/the-thought-process\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:47:45","slug":"the-thought-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/the-thought-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The thought process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BlogDenkprozess.jpg&#8221; background_position=&#8221;center_right&#8221; height=&#8221;500px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;60px||||false|false&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;-50ms&#8221; animation_starting_opacity=&#8221;20%&#8221; background_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; background_horizontal_offset_phone=&#8221;4%&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;50px||0px||false|false&#8221; bottom_divider_color=&#8221;#990091&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;1280px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|100px||100px|true|true&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;|50px||50px|true|true&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;|30px||30px|true|true&#8221; border_radii=&#8221;on|30px|30px|30px|30px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Lato||||||||&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#990091&#8243; header_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#B0987D&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||11px||false|false&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;300ms&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h1>The Thought Process.<\/h1>\n<h3>The 1&#215;1 of your natural thought.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Lato||||||||&#8221; header_font=&#8221;Lato||||||||&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;6px&#8221; header_2_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; header_3_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; header_3_font_size=&#8221;17px&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; header_5_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; header_5_text_color=&#8221;#6b6b6b&#8221; header_5_line_height=&#8221;1.4em&#8221; header_6_font=&#8221;||||||||&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||-2px|||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;500ms&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Although your natural thought process is simple, logical and comprehensible, it can feel like it&#8217;s &#8220;hard&#8221; to change your thinking.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the case because you can&#8217;t do it. It&#8217;s because most people&#8217;s thinking has been set in stone for years: <strong>active beliefs<\/strong> take the lead, while free will is hardly ever consciously used. <\/p>\n<p>And this is where something crucial happens:<br \/>Your subconscious mind loves stability. It doesn&#8217;t evaluate whether a thought makes sense, but whether it&#8217;s <strong>known<\/strong>. Known means &#8220;safe&#8221;. New means &#8220;uncertain&#8221; at first. This is precisely why there is often inner resistance when you try to change your way of thinking.    <\/p>\n<p>The best way to overcome this resistance isn&#8217;t pressure or fighting &#8211; but <strong>logic<\/strong>. Logic is convincing because your mind is based on logic. And your subconscious mind can also be &#8220;persuaded&#8221; by repeated, logical connections, because it can then be led to a new conclusion.  <\/p>\n<h2>The thought process in its natural order<\/h2>\n<p>The thought process runs like a clear chain. Not as a theory, but as a natural principle: cause \u2192 effect. <\/p>\n<h3>1) Perception<\/h3>\n<p>Everything begins with perception. You perceive something through your senses: sight, hearing, physical sensation. <\/p>\n<p>Important: <strong>A thought that &#8220;suddenly appears&#8221; is also a perception.<\/strong><br \/>You notice it &#8211; and therefore you perceive it.<\/p>\n<h3>2) Thought<\/h3>\n<p>Perception is followed by a thought. You begin to describe what you perceive internally.<br \/>And this is where <strong>the words<\/strong> you <strong>use<\/strong> to describe become relevant. <\/p>\n<p>Because your words aren&#8217;t just words. They are meaning. They are evaluation. They are direction.   <\/p>\n<h3>3) Emotion<\/h3>\n<p>The evaluation automatically creates an emotion &#8211; positive or negative.<br \/>This isn&#8217;t a moral question, but pure mechanics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate negatively \u2192 negative emotion<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate positively \u2192 positive emotion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4) Feeling<\/h3>\n<p>The feeling is the result of the emotion &#8211; and therefore indirectly the result of your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Short form:<br \/><strong>Perception \u2192 Thought \u2192 Emotion \u2192 Feeling<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Why it can&#8217;t be any different<\/h2>\n<p>Some people believe that you can &#8220;think negatively and still feel good&#8221;.<br \/>That sounds nice &#8211; but it&#8217;s illogical.<\/p>\n<p>If that were possible, you would no longer have any orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Then your thoughts could express: &#8220;Danger&#8221; &#8211; and at the same time your feeling would say: &#8220;All is well&#8221;.<br \/>You wouldn&#8217;t be able to make any decisions because you wouldn&#8217;t have any inner feedback. Your system would be contradictory. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that thinking and feeling are logically connected is therefore not a problem &#8211; it&#8217;s a protective mechanism. It ensures that you can navigate at all. <\/p>\n<h2>Practical example: The gray sky in the morning<\/h2>\n<h3>Perception<\/h3>\n<p>You get up in the morning and see a gray sky.<\/p>\n<h3>Thought<\/h3>\n<p>You interpret it negatively: &#8220;crap weather&#8221;, &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be a bad day&#8221;, &#8220;it&#8217;s bringing me down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Emotion<\/h3>\n<p>You have given heaven a negative meaning (evaluatioin) through your words.<\/p>\n<h3>Feeling<\/h3>\n<p>You feel listless, heavy, demotivated.<\/p>\n<p>Important: The sky itself was only a perception.<br \/><strong>Your feeling wasn&#8217;t created by the sky, but by your description (evaluation) of the sky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And now it becomes clear why free will is so central.<\/p>\n<h2>The power of this process<\/h2>\n<p>If you really understand this process, you will recognize something that is often overlooked in everyday life:<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not reacting to reality.<br \/>You&#8217;re reacting to your interpretation of reality.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds simple at first &#8211; but it has enormous consequences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It means that you don&#8217;t have to be a &#8220;victim of circumstances&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>It means that you have a lever that&#8217;s deeper than any external situation.<\/li>\n<li>It means that your well-being can be changed without you having to wait for &#8220;something to happen on the outside first&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Free will: Where it really starts<\/h2>\n<p>Many people believe that free will means being able to act freely.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fearless Code, the crucial point is:<br \/><strong>Free will means being able to think freely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And even more precise:<\/p>\n<p>You have the freedom to decide <strong>how you perceive<\/strong> what you perceive.<br \/>You have the freedom to decide <strong>what meaning you give<\/strong>.<br \/>You have the freedom to decide <strong>what words you use internally<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t esotericism. This is direct intervention in the chain: <\/p>\n<p>If you change the evaluation at the beginning, the rest will change automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Perception remains perception.<br \/>But thought, emotion and feeling follow your decision.<\/p>\n<h2>Why this knowledge is so effective<\/h2>\n<p>The Fearless Code is so effective because it doesn&#8217;t sell complicated techniques, but makes visible a mechanism that&#8217;s already permanently running inside you.<\/p>\n<p>It shows you:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>where<\/strong> your thinking begins (with perception),<\/li>\n<li><strong>how<\/strong> a state arises from this (via evaluation \u2192 emotion \u2192 feeling),<\/li>\n<li><strong>why<\/strong> you automatically fall into old patterns (beliefs) without conscious control,<\/li>\n<li>and <strong>how<\/strong> you can take back control of your free will.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s the real advantage:<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to wait for something to change for you to feel good.<br \/>You can think consciously &#8211; and thereby influence your state of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Not by telling yourself something.<br \/>But by <strong>logically<\/strong> recognizing what you&#8217;re doing &#8211; and then correcting it.<\/p>\n<h2>The natural state: feeling good is the basis<\/h2>\n<p>An important point from the Fearless Code is:<br \/>Your natural state isn&#8217;t fear. Your natural state is <strong>feeling good<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because it wouldn&#8217;t make any sense to have a system of thought that generally leads you to a bad place.<br \/>Free will would be worthless if you didn&#8217;t have the opportunity to choose your thoughts in such a way that you find your way back to your natural state.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that many people still often feel bad isn&#8217;t due to reality &#8211; but to the fact that they let their thinking run subconsciously.<\/p>\n<h2>The most important practical question<\/h2>\n<p>If you want to observe the process, you only need one question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;How am I feeling?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re not feeling good, there is a negative thought underneath.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re feeling good, there is a positive thought underneath.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is not a question of guilt. It is a diagnosis. And diagnosis is the prerequisite for conscious control.  <\/p>\n<h2>What changes for you when you use it<\/h2>\n<p>When you begin to consciously recognize the thought process and use your free will exactly where it belongs, very practical benefits arise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You lose the fear of your thoughts because you understand how they arise.<\/li>\n<li>You lose the fear of situations because you realize that your evaluation is the lever.<\/li>\n<li>You regain your freedom of action because you no longer have to react automatically.<\/li>\n<li>You reprogram your perception because your thinking is no longer chaotic but conscious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the best thing about it:<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to wait until &#8220;everything is perfect&#8221;.<br \/>You can decide at any time how you want to think now.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what is happening around you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;||8px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_button button_url=&#8221;@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9saW5rX3VybF9wYWdlIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsicG9zdF9pZCI6IjEwNDAwIn19@&#8221; button_text=&#8221;Return to Blog&#8221; button_alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.6&#8243; _dynamic_attributes=&#8221;button_url&#8221; custom_button=&#8221;on&#8221; button_text_size=&#8221;12px&#8221; button_text_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; button_font=&#8221;|800|||||||&#8221; button_use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;1px|||||&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; animation_duration=&#8221;1500ms&#8221; animation_delay=&#8221;300ms&#8221; global_module=&#8221;55199&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1&#215;1 of your natural thought process (practical example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[262,265,297,299,308,296,264,258,294,295,298],"class_list":["post-55833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soft-skills","tag-focus","tag-goals","tag-interpreting-feelings","tag-live-free-of-fear","tag-natural-thought-process","tag-recognize-feelings","tag-stress-en","tag-success","tag-thinking","tag-thought-process","tag-understanding-fear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55833"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58543,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55833\/revisions\/58543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fearlesscode.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}