How Learning To Look AT Your Thoughts, Rather Than FROM Them, Is The Key

[niceguyJosh]

I like this. I read about these sort of ideas a few years ago (mostly from Eckhart Tolle's research) . They were freeing, until I forgot about it.



I like this too.

I think it is possible. I just haven't been able to do it for more than a few days. My old self returns, slowing, till it takes over and I forget completly about these ideas, which at some level I do believe.

that was my experience until i began practicing mindfulness and meditation every day. but it's not a magic pill that you can just take one time, it has to be practiced consistently.

 

[MentalAudit]

very well said. my purpose in posting this was simply to empower people to realize that dissitentifying with negative thinking, is the doorway out of it's intensity. but this cannot make sense logically until it's taken up as a daily practice

Thankyou, I guess it's an approach and if people follow it they'll come to their own realisation and balance from it or not as happens with every approach. Personally I'm all in favour of distilling your thoughts and feelings to discover parts of who you are so that you can accomodate appropriately (whether for yourself or for others/both).

 

[Solitudes_Grace]

I am my thoughts. If I wasn't I would be just a mindless bag of flesh and bone. My thoughts, for better or for worse, give me my humanity.

 

[gustavofring]

I am my thoughts. If I wasn't I would be just a mindless bag of flesh and bone. My thoughts, for better or for worse, give me my humanity.

I heard other arguments for it. You don't need thoughts for your body to function. There's a greater intelligence at work there.
Also you don't need your mind to observe something like a sunset or a flower. There's something greater then thought and mind, the observing agent, the stillness, etc.

Thought isn't bad, but we're often consumed by thought. We can create some spaciousness in there. But since thought is often what we derive an identity from, we think we need compulsive thinking all the time, which we don't. Like for example, when someone is in a situation of danger, like mountainclimbing, that person is only thinking of the situation, not of anything else. He is fully present in the moment, not thinking about past and future.