Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being

When your mind is relaxed and open, you are primed to have insights. Insights are just subtle shifts of feeling inside you. With these shifts of feeling, things will look better to you. Things will come easier to you. You are more likely to experience these internal shifts if you pause and reflect frequently. To reflect means to set aside all attem

How can we stop negative, unwanted thoughts from entering our heads? We can’t.

Thought recognition naturally allows these thoughts to fall away, or it naturally allows you to stop holding these thoughts to be true. When you stop thinking in a way that keeps your stress and upset alive, your head clears of these upsetting thoughts, and you bounce back to more peaceful states of mind.

I do not ask anyone to ignore their past experiences. This would be denial, and denial is not a healthy state. Instead, seek a clearer understanding of the past; realize that the negative feelings and emotions from past traumatic experiences are no longer true. They are merely memories, a collection of old, stale thoughts.

Just for a moment, consider what it would be like if you realized not a single thought that you had was true. In that moment you would be completely free of the influence of any concepts that were created in your head.

Wisdom is contained within these feelings and is not something that you can figure out with your intellect.

All that is required to discover this silent mind is a very subtle shift in attention away from the waves and the turbulence, away from the things of the world, and toward the space that is always there — quiet, welcoming, present, waiting.

each one of us is doing the best we can, given the level of understanding we are in and the thoughts that we think are true.

Everything in the physical or psychological world comes, goes, and changes. Your thoughts come and go. Every feeling you have comes and goes. Your perception of life comes and goes. So, you are living in a thought-created world and the content of your experience is something that comes and goes and changes. It arises — and then it disappears.