Re: Looking for thoughts

[Guest guest]

What likely is going on here is that some thoughts are going " under the

radar, " unnoticed as thoughts and rather you are seeing the exercise

through the lens of the thought. If you are " actively looking for

thoughts, " then you are having a thought there (probably something like

" I guess I'll look for some thoughts " ) that has gone unnoticed. The

string of thoughts that you might be having that are going unnoticed

might look something like " I'm not having any thoughts. Oh no, I should

be having thoughts. I guess I'll wait until I have some thoughts... "

etc.

Its pretty rare for someone to have long periods during an exercise

like this without thoughts, unless they have been dong it for fairly

long periods of time. It cold be the case that you aren't having any

thoughts, but more likely its that thoughts that present themselvs as about the exercise go unnoticed.

-jl

Just a quick observation: whilst doing the leaves on a stream

exercise, I sometimes find myself not having any thoughts, and

actively looking for some - the ones I find are usually distressing.

anyone else?

[Guest guest]

>

> What likely is going on here is that some thoughts are going " under the

> radar, " unnoticed as thoughts and rather you are seeing the exercise

through

> the lens of the thought. If you are " actively looking for thoughts, "

then

> you are having a thought there (probably something like " I guess

I'll look

> for some thoughts " ) that has gone unnoticed. The string of thoughts

that you

> might be having that are going unnoticed might look something like

" I'm not

> having any thoughts. Oh no, I should be having thoughts. I guess

I'll wait

> until I have some thoughts... " etc.

you pretty much hit the nail on the head there. I'll be more aware of

this the next time I do the exercise. thanks.