Learning To Observe Your Thoughts

Learning to observe your thoughts.

Take a few moments to adjust your position and settle into your posture.

Feel your body relaxing,

The muscles softening and loosening,

Relaxing and releasing.

Maybe a deeper breath or two.

Now,

Without aiming to think of anything in particular,

Just notice whatever thoughts come into your awareness.

Simply allowing the thoughts to come when they do and go when they do.

Noticing how the thoughts are coming into your awareness.

Perhaps you are seeing them as pictures or hearing them as words or perhaps you are feeling them or a bit of both.

Just noticing how these thoughts are coming into your awareness.

Notice how each thought is like a segment or a unit.

Each with a beginning,

A middle and an end.

Noticing the segments or units.

Notice how as a thought finishes,

There may well be a space between that thought finishing and the next thought starting.

So notice now the space between the thoughts.

Placing your attention on the space between and around the thoughts.

And notice that silence in the space between the thoughts.

Notice how that space leads you into an awareness that the silence,

The stillness is almost like a background across which the thoughts are travelling.

See if you can place your awareness on that stillness,

That background.

The sense of resting.

Breathing in that still silent presence for a few moments now.

And notice how as a thought finishes,

There may well be a space between those thoughts and the next thought.

When you're ready,

Take a few long slow breaths.

Move your body.

Have a little stretch and gently open your eyes once again.