I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it for a while now, and yeah, you are the conscious being that hears your thoughts, but how “deep” does that conscience go?
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Your thoughts and emotions are reactions to outside stimulus, whether that stimulus is happening right now or happened in the past. These will happen naturally, they’re like breathing or blinking. You don’t choose them. They just happen as part of how the brain works.
You are the thing that makes decisions.
Another way to say it is that you are not your body or your brain. You are the electrical signals running through your brain. You are following the pathways. What lies on those pathways is not up to you, but which direction you go when the pathway splits is absolutely up to you.
Usually, we say “you are not your thoughts” to help people cope with intrusive thoughts. You will have ugly thoughts but they don’t define who you are, how you act does. You will have unwelcome emotions but you choose how to react to them.
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