Detach yourself from your mind and learn to observe it without judgment to be free from pain
Learning to detach yourself from your mind begins with becoming conscious of its power over you. The destructive part of the human mind likes to go unnoticed as it influences thinking and behavior. Therefore, you must learn to observe how your mind operates if you want to be happy.
⚡️To observe your mind is to ask yourself what your next thought would be.
When you focus fully on this question, you’ll realize that it would take a while for you to conceive your next thought. This act of observation makes you create a gap in your flow of thought.
Repeating this exercise will help you realize how your mind is in a continuous flow of thoughts. You will also learn to interrupt your mind. By interrupting your mind, you also learn to separate from it.
Having mastered how to observe your mind, you can now learn to observe it without judging. When you judge, it is your mind that is at work. Meanwhile, the goal is to dissociate from your mind completely.
⚡️Observe without judgment by acknowledging your mind’s advice but ignoring it.
When your body feels like sleeping, for example, listen to it and go to sleep. Your body knows what is good for you at that moment. Your mind may kick in to tell you to do something else like studying for an exam or reply to an email. Don’t judge the voice whispering these instructions as good or bad. Just acknowledge the advice but refuse to follow it. This practice helps you to notice your mind without allowing it to control you and without judging what it is telling you.
⚡️Listen to your body and follow its impulse because it knows what’s best for you.