You re not your thoughts12/29/2023 Once you’re less attached to the contents of your mind (which are mostly negative), you become aware of the possibility of being here…present in the moment freshly…with openness, curiosity, and wonder. As the quote above from Byron Katie says, your thoughts aren’t personal to you-they just appear in the space we call the mind. It helps you to break the identification with your thoughts so you’re not taking them personally. Here are some benefits to this practice.įirst, it’s a quick and obvious reminder that you are not your thoughts. What I’m suggesting may sound like an awkward way to describe your experience, but it’s much closer to the truth than identifying with your thoughts. Instead of saying, “I’m feeling anxious,” you might say, ‘The feeling of anxiety is arising in me,” or, “Sensations are appearing in me that feel like anxiety.”Ĭan you feel how powerful it is to separate yourself from your thinking? Your Thoughts Don’t Describe You Accurately-Who Are You? Now let’s apply this practice to feelings. You’re no longer identifying with what the thoughts are telling you…and immediately there’s a sense of spaciousness and relaxation… When you say, “I’m worried,”or “I’m unlovable,” you believe you’re the one who is worried or unlovable along with all the implications about yourself and the world that go with that identity.īut “worrying thoughts are arising in me,” or “thoughts are arising in me telling me I’m unlovable,” changes everything. You might say, “I’m worried.” But a more accurate way to describe what’s actually happening is to say, “Worrying thoughts are arising in me.” It’s common to say something like,“I’m unlovable.” What’s more accurate is: “Thoughts are arising in me telling me I’m unlovable.” For most of us, it takes time to untangle ourselves from the content of our thinking, and a skillful practice along the way is to be accurate in the language we use.
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