Leave Troubling Thoughts and Feelings Where You Find Them
Take this bold step towards living thought-free: Each morning, before you launch into your usual routine, find someplace where you can sit quietly by yourself for about ten minutes. If you have to get up earlier to make this time for yourself, then just do it. Use this time to do nothing except to be conscious of how your own mind refuses to join you in doing nothing.
But, don't work at this attempt to be thought-free. Instead, just silently observe how your thoughts won't stand still; see just how thought "full" you really are. Again, your aim is not to "do" something with these ten minutes, but see something about yourself during them. This is healthy self-acquaintance. Let your growing awareness that these tumbling thoughts have a life of their own serve as your first step in separating yourself from their influence. This is the marvelous beginning of self-silence. Up until now, you may have never questioned the notion that your thoughts didn't really belong to you. Now you can begin to witness this fact.
This exercise will help you see that your Real Nature is not any of those thoughts passing through you. Living without thoughts about yourself isn't far behind this inner discovery.
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Although some of this seems somewhat esoteric, what I believe you are saying is to acknowledge the meaning of events to ones self and they don't become part of your own energy. It doesn't attach.
That sounds like very helpful information.