How Mindfulness Can Reshape Negative Thought Patterns

Copyright Matthew James 2019

[Waking Times]: “Our life is like a silent film on which we each write our own commentary.” ~Unknown Zen Buddhist Master

We spend most of our lives thinking or lost in thought. The average human has 17,000 thoughts daily. Around 90% of them are repeat-thoughts!

Unfortunately, we often believe the stories underlying these thoughts, although often, they have little basis in reality. Mindfulness can help us relate more skillfully and wisely to our own thought patterns.

A common issue is that we often get stuck in thinking patterns that reduce the quality of our lives. We can call these patterns mental tapes because they usually have roots in the past. (Now, most of us are streaming music instead of listening to tapes anyway!)

These tapes often originate from when we were younger, more vulnerable, less mature, and less competent....read more>>>...