What are you thinking?

It might be a good idea to stop taking your thoughts so seriously.  The contents of your mind are not who you are anyway.  Overidentifying with your thoughts causes all kinds of downsides.  Allowing the wrong thoughts to run wild will cause anxiety and stress.  Other thoughts cause pride, rigidness, and a closed-off spirit.

The fact that thoughts cause action and action cause feeling is enough reason to use caution when harboring them.

Thoughts need to be respected but are not your identity.  It turns out that trying to control your thoughts is a fool's errand.  Trying to block or erase them almost puts a spotlight on them.  Instead, just notice them and gently show the bad ones to the door.

Pro Tip: When someone you love is an emotional basket case, allow them to feel.  Their feelings are real and should never be argued.  The better approach is to validate the feeling and later on gently discuss the thoughts that lead to the emotion.  Mistaking someone’s feelings as thoughts doesn’t go welI, I checked.