I am not my thoughts.
It seems simple enough. I have heard so many spirituality teachers say this so many times, and I thought I got it. I thought I understood that I am not the thought, nor am I the creator of the thought. I am the receiver of the thought.
I realized that I want to have ownership of the “good” thoughts, get credit for them. Other thoughts that come to me reinforce my idea of who I am. I claim those as well, and share them with others to make sure they know me too. I even narrate the thoughts that come to me in my head in my own voice to reinforce the belief that it is I who created them.
I am so deeply identified with my thoughts it’s difficult to see all the ways and disengage. And certainly the task is made more difficult when I am standing in the perspective of being identified with thought.
I’m reminded of a lovely saying I heard years ago. How do you explain water to a fish?
So, on my quest to know deeply that I and my thoughts are not one, I will ask for help.
This Camera Luminum mini series will focus on dis-identifying from our thoughts. There will be a Recognition and a Capacity Builder. In the Capacity Builder we will call on higher aspects of ourselves who may in turn call on our Inner Being (or if you prefer Soul, Higher Self, Over Soul) for assistance.
For more on the subject of thought, please check out my meditation, Thought Magnet.