A Flywheel in Your Body

Most approaches to mental health and well-being are dealing with the content of the personal mind, content of person’s thinking. But actually, that’s neither necessary nor useful. Instead of dealing with the content, analyzing, trying to change our thoughts, or become aware of them, what is much more powerful is understanding that it is all thought.

So, whatever is bothering you, whichever unpleasant emotion you are feeling in your body or your mind, it’s always just your thinking that’s active at the moment. 

Imagine your mind revving your thoughts as a flywheel spinning in your body. You don’t have to know what it consists of and deal with it. It’s enough if you just know that that is what’s happening now. Some of your thinking is momentarily active, spinning your flywheel, you are feeling it as an emotion and that’s it.

This knowing gives you an ability to be detached from your mind, from what your thoughts are saying. Attachment to thoughts arises when we forget that what we’re feeling at the moment is just thoughts. 

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