Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miskara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about a strategy you can use to train yourself

to observe your thoughts with less of an emotional charge and more of an ability to see them as the simple mental activity that they are.

More to come on all of that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. Okay, so when it comes to practicing human, one of the key skills that can be very important

for navigating this life is being able to have a better

relationship to your thoughts, specifically the capacity to not be overwhelmed by them and to be able to observe them

objectively as just mental activity moving through the mind. Now this doesn't mean

we don't have to take thought seriously, that we don't

listen to them, that we don't use them to motivate maybe emotion or action. All of that

can still happen with the understanding that a thought is a thought

is a thought and you didn't necessarily ask for it to arise in the mind and it

doesn't necessarily have to be something that you take as fact or truth.

The ability to have that perspective is, well I say this a lot, but it is a superpower in day-to-day life

since so much of the time is spent being consumed by

thoughts.

Now a lot of my teachings on this podcast and outside of this podcast are devoted to developing that

understanding of what we could say the true nature of a thought or developing a

more objective relationship to the thinking mind so that we're not so consumed by it.

And yet it can still be a really hard thing to cultivate

living in our minds to watch our mind think can often be like telling a fish to describe water to you or to watch water. It's just

there. It's as if we're doing the watching through our thinking. So it requires accessing this other domain dimension of us called awareness that is able to

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