Quotes About Thoughts

The second way mindfulness disempowers schema thoughts has to do with the nature of attention itself.

Fortunately, even if we can't control the circumstances that lead to such thoughts, we have the ability to free our minds from their hold.

mindfulness fills much of our attention with something other than the mental tape loops that activate our schemas.

Mindfulness helps to derail schema thoughts by focusing our awareness on the here and now, simply noting what we experience without getting caught up in our thoughts or our reactions to them.

Realizing that these thoughts are just projections of the mind helps counter the disturbing emotions they provoke.

One method—mental noting, where we label familiar thoughts as such without getting pulled into them—is quite helpful in working with our schemas.

Challenge those thoughts. Remind yourself that they distort the way things really are.

The more often we repeat a mental pattern, the more likely it becomes in the future;

If you stay mindful as thoughts appear in your awareness, they reveal their empty nature and eventually dissolve. Let them vanish on their own, without adding to them in any way.

A mental state can last for but a moment, until another state rises to the top of the mind's hierarchy, or it can become a habitual frame of mind.

With mindfulness, we can see their impersonal nature more clearly, not identifying with the thinker, letting thoughts dissolve like waves back into awareness.

Instead of being swept away and captured by a thought or feeling, mindfulness steadily observes those thoughts and feelings as they come and go.

Recognizing, for instance, "Oh, I'm having those-feelings again," or "Here come my schema thoughts," gives us the freedom to wake from the schema trance.

To some extent, raw emotions arise from a part of the brain without words.

Mindfulness can help you recognize your fearful thoughts so that you can see that they're simply thoughts, not reality.

By mindfully monitoring your thoughts rather than letting them dictate how you behave, you will start to win emotional freedom from your fears.

Our emotional reactions often distract us from the present, filling our minds with relentless thoughts about another time and place, filling our bodies with turbulent feelings.

can't do this,' 'I feel overwhelmed,' and 'I hate myself'. So I labeled them 'M1,' 'M2,' and 'M3,' for 'morning tape thoughts.' This way I can more easily watch the habitual play of thoughts running through my mind, without taking them too seriously or getting hooked in.

I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We

sometimes few thoughts gives pain but that doesnt mean it is a curse

curse Lady Emily Hargreaves and her life and mind and memory and liver and lungs mixed up together, and her words, thoughts and memory; thus may she be unable to speak what things are concealed, nor be able to communicate anything she finds. I bind her tongue,

details of my afternoon, staying silent until I mentioned the

We do not perceive things directly but perceive rather our thoughts about things. And these stories and perceptions, when accompanied by powerful emotions, can dramatically color our experiences.