Why do we thank our mind?

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hello! it was

nice to get back home and see all those lovely replies.

I

like both ways at looking at it. If I see the mind as a bully as

Helena says, I imagine the observer like Ghandi sitting down

cross-legged listening but not engaging in the violence thrown at

him. I have often read that bullies need to see your fusion of fear

with the behaviour of acting so, if not they are powerless.

If

I look at the mind as a protector as said, I see the mind as

some over-protective but ignorant loved one, who will try to keep you

safe at all costs, for example an aunt. This aunt can be hysterical, judgemental, and

overall silly, but her high pitch voice distracts as she tries to stop you getting to where you are going, she wants to talk it over of course and

persuade you to go her way. This is a bit like the short story I

wrote in my blog “My Friendâ€. I thought at the time I was writing

about anxiety, but now I see I was writing about a tangled up fusion

of thoughts, symptoms, emotions (sorry anxiety, you are not to blame

really). (Gosh, look at me! Sorry anxiety? thank you mind? I feel so

polite But yes, Lets all get on better right? Mind, anxiety,

observing self, me.. we are all going to be living together in my

existence so lets try and get along in my small body (or I could

expand and make more room?) (Its great how expansion can

make room, I wish there was a physical equivalent, my house is dead

tiny and could do with more room, its like playing tetris with the

furniture!).

So

still sort of have that conflict of ideas (or my mind does anyway ha)

about the thanking seeming very peaceful and accepting and on the

other hand like I am trying to rewarding bad behaviour. I think I am

going to give a try to thanking full stop, without questioning it,

and focusing on the first. If my mind retorts to my thank you saying

“hey, why are you thanking me? I just said you are going to stop

breathing and die if you go to the next town?†I will beat it up

for being such an ungrateful **** for throwing back my thanks in my

face (I am very much joking).

I

am actually all for thanking. And I am very willing to keep giving it a go. And even though my mind sometimes whispers that thanking is bad, I am quite for it.

I

am new into this, and have not encountered the problems some of you speak of

with defusion. I am sure I will treading those stepping stones soon.

At the moment I am noticing to what point fusion exists. I have such

a tight tangled fusion of symptoms thoughts behaviours ect that its

going to take some unravelling, it all happens so fast as well. But I

feel very excited about trying to use my wise mind, and afterwards defusion.

Anyway,

thanks for all your answers XXX