Who Am I, If I am Not My Thoughts?

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 'I am Whole, Complete, Valid and Perfect'.

What happens to your mind when you read these words?

I am inviting you to notice the quality of your automatic thoughts at this moment.

Then, find something that is FREE and DISCONNECTED from your history. 

It could be a random person you saw today, a nice outfit you saw someone wearing, or the fact that the earth spins around itself and the sun 🌍

The point is to stop automatically thinking or associating things together. 

Did your mind jump to tell you 'No, you're not?', or you simply remembered one time that you actually felt like a whole, or perhaps incomplete. Again, notice these thoughts, and go back to this moment; You, reading this sentence, while sitting on a chair or maybe walking to your next session.

'I am Whole, Complete, Valid and Perfect'

Notice what is NOT automatic after you hear this. Notice 'who is noticing'; You are not your thoughts, your memories and whatever happened to you. 

See yourself as someone in the train passing through different places. In fact, You are not your feelings; your feelings are in you.

This sense of inclusion is very powerful. Human consciousness is this inner model of inherent connections to everyone and everything, all the time.

To understand these relationships between the 'I and you', 'here, there, and now', we need to take a point of view or perspective. 

This is a component of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, known as Self-As-Context (SAC), the 'observer self'. 

It is your ability to watch your thoughts and feelings from a distance without fusing with them.

Welcome these internal processes as guests, who can be annoying at times, without identifying with them.🌟

You can try to treat your mind as an external factor; it could be a thing or a person.

Give it a name.

I call mine 'Anxious Dana'.

And the next time your mind starts telling you things that are uncomfortable, notice your thoughts and say 'Well, here goes this mind again' or 'My mind is telling me stories again'.

Take home message:

Remind yourself that these thoughts are separate from you and they do not define you as a person. 

Your mind is a separate entity, and you can make friends with it or let it be💆

Yours truly,

Dana

Kindness is not just a virtue, it's a way of life. 


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