Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our
thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are
not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.
That’s the big difference. To train
in becoming mindful of thoughts can help us to notice when your mind is
actively thinking, either using the label “thinking, thinking,” or identifying
the kind of thought—“worrying, worrying,” “planning, planning.” Then, becoming
interested in what’s really happening right here. Coming home to the sensations
in your body, your breath, the sounds around you, the life of the moment.
As our mindfulness practice deepens we become more aware of
our thoughts. This offers us the opportunity to assess them and notice that
much of the time our thoughts are not really serving us. Many thoughts are
driven by fear and lock us into insecurity. During mindful eating program one of the biggest breakthroughs people share with us is:
“I realized I don’t have to believe my thoughts.”
Training in mindfulness allows our minds to have a choice.
At the moment in which you pause and realize that these thoughts are not really
serving me, you have the option to come back to presence. This process of
choosing becomes more powerful as you realize how thoughts can create suffering
and separation. They create an “us” and a “them.” They create judgment and end
up making us feel bad about ourselves.
In those moments when you’re lost in thought, what if you
could pause and say, “OK, it is just a thought” That is revolutionary. That can
change your life!
Now, the key is that we approach this with a gentleness and
kindness. Each time we recognize thinking and come back into the present moment
with gentleness and kindness, we are planting a seed of mindfulness.
We are
creating a new habit—a new way of being in the world. We quiet down the
incessant buzz of thoughts in our mind. We take refuge in what is true—the
aliveness and tenderness and mystery of the present moment—rather than in the
story line of our thoughts.
“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.”— Wu Men
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