Hello friends, welcome to the podcast. I am Kory Allen and as always it's great to be here

in this moment of time with you. One of the things I've heard so much over the years

from listeners of the show, people that have read my book, of course people on Instagram

social media in general, is that they feel a lot of guilt around the thoughts that they have.

In general, they feel like that if they have negative thoughts, that it's a reflection of who

they are as a person. And quickly we should define what a negative thought is. Think about whenever

you're talking to someone and something like rude or sarcastic or even brutal arises in your mind.

And typically one doesn't say those things out loud, but they arise and then they move on.

Or if you're in a certain situation and you have a impulse or a thought to do something that

would be very negative, but of course you don't do it. For example, if you're standing on the

side of a bridge, looking at a beautiful landscape and body of water, a strange thought could fly

by in the back of your mind that thinks I could just push someone off this bridge right now.

How weird is that? And of course you'd never do it, but that random bit of information just

goes by in your mind. Of course, that's an extreme example, but this happens on a granular level

all the time. Typically whenever a person begins paying more attention to their thoughts,

is whenever they'll start having this feeling of guilt. That's because they've gone most of their

life, not really paying deep and close attention to all the thoughts that are moving by in their mind.

They could be aware that they're thinking, they could be aware of whenever they have an idea,

but they're not observing and placing their attention on the constant flow of everything that's

moving through their mind, their rising impulses, their emotional reactions,

and all of the mental formations that flows her mind.

Soon, everyone becomes aware of these things and starts paying more attention to them.

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