One of the byproducts of this mental activity is “thought” in the form of images, language, memories, ideas, dreams, and perspective. Mental activity includes: thinking, emotion, planning, perception, memory, etc. What we do know, is that thoughts are a small part of a larger scope of mental activity. But even with all the progress in the world of psychology and neuroscience a true understanding of our mental processes remains somewhat of a mystery. Thoughts are a natural occurrence – a product of being human. “The brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile.” – Pierre Cabanis So here’s a brief primer to thoughts: what they are, who it is that thinks them, and what to do with them. So the thing that happens 1,000s of times a day inside our heads was never explained to me and yet it had an enormous impact on my daily reality? That’s I was able to grasp the idea that I wasn’t my thoughts and have since built a much healthier relationship with them. So to walk around believing that I was not those thoughts sounded like fantastic news.Īlso, we have 1,000s of thoughts a day. Although, at some point, everyone has some variation of an uncomfortable thought. “Who the heck have I been listening all these years?!”ĭepending on your history with thoughts, they can be quite annoying, depressing, obsessive, insecure, you name it. “Why has no one taught me what thoughts are?” Whoever said this never elaborated and I was left with many questions… The person will be totally and mindlessly carried away by one thought after another!” -Tulku UrgenĪs a young student of psychology, I would hear people say, “you are not your thoughts.”

“The stream of thoughts surges through the mind of an ordinary person, who will have no knowledge whatsoever about who is thinking, where the thought comes from, and where the thought disappears.

You are not your thoughts