If you move beyond simple awareness of it and progress on to judging and feeling emotions, then you water the seedling. But to grow… to become a fully-fledged living thing, it needs to be fed and it can only be fed by your attention to it. Under the right conditions, it cracks and a small sprout fights through the fertile soil of your subconscious and bursts through the surface and into our conscious mind. The problem is that we don’t often spend time contemplating this awareness… Instead, we go from thought, through awareness of the thought and straight on to judging the thoughts (is it good, bad, indifferent?), then onto emotion… how does the thought make me feel? From emotion we then have thoughts about thoughts and the vicious cycle comes back in through the back door and never ends. Related Reading: ‘Pain is not character building, it’s a warning system’ This person experiencing the thought… strange? The more that you sit and just observe your thoughts, the more you become aware of this third person observer. So, what is this awareness? Who is this watcher of thoughts? Perhaps this awareness of the thought is the real you, not the thought itself. You’re aware that you’re having the thought of a sunset over the beach. Now, while you’re having that thought of a beautiful orange sun sliding through the violet sky and dipping into the watery horizon, something else very strange is happening. Think for a moment, a thought, a sunset over the ocean. Due to the nature of how we experience thoughts, it’s very easy to mistake that we are indeed our thoughts or, our thoughts are us. My point is that we all strive for a sense of identity, qualities that I define as ‘me’. Are those thoughts you? Is that who you are? A bit deep?… stay with me. Dark thoughts that you’d never share with anyone. Think about some of the thoughts you’ve had. The man who thought he was his thoughts – Rene Descartes
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