Awareness of Thoughts - Guided Mindfulness Exercise with Nature Sounds Windy Hills

Peace Starter Meditation(free) : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.persona.peacestarter 30 Days To Change: http://bayart.org/ As always, please share your thoughts, stories and questions below. Your interaction creates a living wisdom for us all to benefit from. How To Kill A Thought (In A Good Way): More On Mindfulness “I often feel like my thoughts are hammers, and they keep on hammering down on this thing known as my brain.” This is a pretty apt description of how a lot of people feel every day; I’ve certainly experienced it. When just you and your brain are alone together, how do you get it to quit assaulting you and just let you be? In principle, the answer is beautifully simple – thoughts don’t have to be believed. You can just acknowledge the ridiculous or negative thoughts that pop into your head, chuckle at them, and then release them. This is the essence of mindfulness. 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. 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?”