learning to take your negative thoughts less seriously, is infinitely more effective in terms of learning to be more peaceful. When you have a thought—any thought—that’s all it is, a thought! It can’t hurt you without your consent.
This is another Buddhist concept. Identifying with your thoughts. Not recognizing that it is your thoughts, more than the current circumstances that make us suffer. Believing that we are our thoughts, instead of the fact that thoughts simply appear and unravel on their own. Thinking, looking for threats and opportunites, is what the brain is designed to do. But it doesn't make us happy.
