What are our two minds?

In Zen they refer to this as the “Thinking Mind” and the “Observing Mind.” The two minds. It’s been a common concept in Buddhism for centuries, and new western therapies such as Acceptance-Commitment Therapy (ACT), are catching on to how useful it is and how it can solve a lot of our every day emotional problems.

How do you explain your feelings and thoughts?

Thoughts are ways of dealing with feelings In the primary case, in the standard situation, feelings come first. Thoughts are ways of dealing with feelings – ways of, as it were, thinking our way out of feelings – ways of finding solutions that meets the needs that lie behind the feelings.

What are some thoughts for the day?

Life

• “Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau.
• “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.
• “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift.
• “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” –

Do all thoughts have meaning?

Thoughts are not meaningful. The content of your thoughts is not important. What is important is how you treat your mind. If you take everything it says seriously, give it too much respect, and put too much trust in your mind, that is a recipe for an anxiety disorder.

What are thoughts in simple words?

1 : an idea, plan, opinion, picture, etc., that is formed in your mind : something that you think of My first thought was that something must have changed. She had a sudden thought. = A sudden thought occurred to her. See More Examples.

How do our thoughts come to be?

Everything begins with the thoughts you pay attention to. Thoughts trigger emotions, and the vibrational frequency of these emotions then feed back into the original thought. And as we continue to give mental attention to the initial though, it reaffirms the emotion, which then energizes the thought.

What happens when you keep thinking the same things?

As you keep thinking the same thoughts, producing the same emotions and performing the same actions, you continue to live by the same experiences. As we repeatedly engage in the same thought patterns of think, feel, do, these patterns encode as a blueprint in our subconscious mind.

What are thoughts and attitudes?

Thoughts are mental cognitions—our ideas, opinions, and beliefs about ourselves and the world around us. They include the perspectives we bring to any situation or experience that color our point of view (for better, worse, or neutral). An example of a long-lived thought is an attitude, which develops as thoughts are…

Do all people have the same thoughts and feelings?

According to Christakis and Fowler, “People the world over have different ideas, beliefs, and opinions—different thoughts—but they have very similar, if not identical, feelings.” What influences emotions? Researchers such as Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, authors of Connected, have also found that emotions are “contagious.”