You are not your thoughts! This is obvious but we easily forget this fact and become slaves to what appears in the mind - reacting to life out of our past - missing the freedom to respond to life in a fresh way.
A powerful meditation technique is to just notice our thoughts without judgement and without reacting in any way to them. So … during practice, when thoughts arise (they probably will (LOL)) just notice them and say silently to yourself: "thinking".
In a twenty minute session you may find yourself saying: "thinking, thinking, thinking" several hundred times. This is ok … the goal is not to quiet the mind or have better thoughts … the goal is to just notice the thoughts and, of course, conclude that you are not them. Ahhhhh freedom!
peace on you,
bob
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Discussion of spiritual practices: awakening, meditation, and the freedom that cannot be lost or found. All perspectives are welcome; advaita, christian, buddhist, islam or even no perspective at all. Just pointing to that which is nearest and dearest.
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