"We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." Buddha
How often do you examine your thoughts? Are you even aware that you are thinking most of the time? Most of us are not. And this opens the door for your thoughts to run your life, rather than you.
You might want to take a few minutes each day, to just sit and watch your thoughts. Noticing how they arrive, stay a while and then move away, making room for the next one, you can begin to separate the thought "event" from the thought "content." Sometimes thoughts may arise slowly or not at all, and other times may come in torrents. Just let yourself observe, and learn from these discrete events.
When you start to look at the content of your thoughts, you may learn that a lot of what you think is just not true, and may even be ridiculous. It may be rooted in past experience and personal interpretation, and does, in fact, alter the way you experience your life. If you are unhappy with your life, examining the content of your thoughts may provide not only clues to the source of your suffering, but the antidote as well.
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