Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're

getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's

episode we're going to talk about working with thoughts in your meditation

practice. More to come on that in a moment. First let's settle in together with

the sound of the bells.

Okay, so working with thoughts is one of the main things that we're doing in a

meditation practice because our conditioning around thoughts is to take

them so personally to be so consumed by them to view our life through the

lens of thought that that actually becomes our reality. And so one of the

freeing aspects of mindfulness of meditation and contemplative practice as a

whole is just being able to unburden yourself from the over identification

with thoughts, the mistaking thoughts as reality, as you. And there are a lot

of ways to work with thoughts within a meditation practice, but one of the

things that is very simple, one of the strategies that's very simple and is

foolproof, is just simply watching them over and over and over as a form of a

developing and understanding of their nature. And there's a quote by Tara

Brock where she says, as I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it

became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own.

There was no sense of a self owning them. I'll say that one more time, really

take it in. As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became

increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. There

was no sense of a self owning them. So that last piece, there was no sense of a

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