Week 6: Seeing Thoughts as Thoughts
“Our thoughts are just thoughts, not the truth of things, and certainly not accurate representations of who we are. In being seen and known, they cannot but self-liberate, and we are, in that moment, liberated from them.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
We have had a lot of practice over the past several weeks noticing our minds wandering and labeling what is going on in the mind as ‘thinking.’ We have practiced gently returning the focus of attention to an anchor. This week we turned our focus directly to thoughts and began to relate to thoughts as just words or images in the mind that we may or may not choose to believe or engage in. We discussed the role of thoughts and believing our thoughts, in the relapse cycle (using G. Alan Marlatt’s Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Relapse Prevention).
Life Practice:
Exploring really making the practice your own!