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4. MINDFULNESS OF THOUGHTS

TIME REQUIRED & WHY YOU SHOULD TRY IT

6 min.

 We often treat thoughts as if they were facts. You may have the thought “I am no good at this,” or “He’s is a jerk,” or “Nobody understand me,” or even “I am brilliant!” Does thinking it make it so?

 When we have a thought many times, over and over, it can condense into a belief. So a belief is a thought, or a number of connected thoughts, that we have a lot of the time. Beliefs are then quite often taken as facts.

 For example: “The world is flat.” Enough people had that thought, or held the assumption, often enough for it to be assumed to be a fact for centuries!

 When we start to pay attention to our thoughts, with a gentle curiosity, then we start to think about our thinking. We can then move away from believing that the thought is a fact.

 Then there’s this: If the thought does have evidence pointing to it being a fact, ask yourself a different question. “What does buying into this thought do to me? Does it help? Is it working?”

 If the answer is no, then simply move on from the thought. Choose not to get caught up in it.

HOW TO DO:

Now open your Peace Starter Meditation app and go ‘Guided Mindfulness Meditation’ section, select ‘Mindfulness of thoughts’ and start your session.

Otherwise you can use following video YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYEH8XWuFvo