As the last frontier, this journey of s/Self, invites and encourages exploration; watching thoughts is a major part of the adventure.
The very act of observing what crosses our mind has an effect.
Thoughts come with emotions, with feelings, and realizing this increases awareness.
Thoughts are energy and advancing technology (heck, galloping technology) can measure them, map them, observe their effect. In our lab of one we can do the same.
Do we think in words, in images, in sounds or smells or taste or touch. Or a combination. Or none of the above. Worth ‘thinking’ about.
We can think about the act of, say, cutting up fruit for a salad. Can bring our focus to the fruit and the knife and our cutting action. Can have those thought- observations slip to the memory of what the price of the strawberries were in the market earlier and how one of the kids doesn’t like strawberries and the need to set the alarm for her because she has an early morning ……. etc.
And those ‘runaway’ thoughts can be recalled if not too long or far distant if we stop to think about what we have just thought while we were consciously thinking about cutting the fruit.
What is the difference between conscious and unconscious thinking. Does unconscious thinking exist.
We can identify the feelings around thoughts and open (welcome) or close (resist) to these feelings. We can watch what happens when we do either or both with regards to thoughts about people (ourselves included), situations, observations, ideas, memories etc.
Playing with our responses to a thought brings interesting and worthwhile discoveries on this last frontier voyage.