When you change your perspective from, “I am my mind,” to “I have a mind”, that’s a rest-of-your-life game changer. Similarly, when you can shift from “I am my emotions,” to “I have emotions,” that improves your control over your mind dramatically. It fits your consciousness into the big picture where it can be seen as something that experiences

how you are not a human, but a consciousness having a human experience.

Any time your awareness falls on how your mind is focused and not actually what it’s focused on, you are in a state of meta-awareness.

The emotion in the study participants’ brains turned itself down as a result of the thinking brain putting an understanding to the emotion. They called this the “name-it tame-it” effect.

Any time you use the word “me” or “I”, put the word “the” in front of it. So “me” becomes “the me”, and “I” becomes “the I”. Statements like “that comment made me angry”, become “that comment made THE me angry”. Yes, it sounds weird, but that’s part of its magic. The intentional error in grammar helps bring attention to the practice. The result is

you are another version of me who started with your physiology and then piled on the life experiences you’ve had to make you who and what your mind thinks you are. I said, “who your mind thinks you are,” because, as we’ve discussed, who your mind thinks you are isn’t really who you are. Your mind’s sense of {self} is the only thing that

Your mind is the meeting place between your brain’s processing and your greater consciousness. It’s the screen on which you see your brain’s processing, including all your senses, thoughts, and emotions, from where you make the moment-to-moment decisions that determine the direction of your human life.

The greatest benefit I’ve experienced by understanding my own mind is that I now have the ability to select which instances of mental processing I allow to occur, versus which instances I allow my mind to flush right out of the system before they can cause any discomfort. Please note this isn’t a suppression of bad feelings or negative emotions

The process is as follows: First, you learn about the two variables that create every emotional reaction you have from the time of your birth to the time of your death. Next, you learn how to adjust those two variables to improve the quality of your emotional landscape for the rest of your life. And that’s it.