Easing Negative Thoughts

Hi, welcome back to your Daily Mindfulness. In today's session, we're going to talk about negative thoughts. One of the things that mindfulness helps us see is that we are not our negative thoughts. We are the one listening to our thoughts. We are not our negative thoughts.

We are the one listening to our negative thoughts. You can reflect on this in a very practical way. If you're able to watch your mind thinking, then there must be a difference between you and your thinking. In order to observe anything, there needs to be a subject and an object. Well, to observe your thinking means the thinking is the object and you are the observer, the subject.

I acknowledge that it doesn't always feel so easy to take this perspective, but that is why we have these video reminders and our meditation practice. So my reminder to you today is that when you notice yourself caught in negative thought patterns, imagine as though you're zooming out from it and you're connecting to the backdrop of awareness that is able to experience the thought without becoming it. Thank you for your practice. Let's settle in for today's meditation.