There is a number of thoughts you think. Some have followed you through the years. Some are quite recent but pretty persistent. Some provoke laughs, some tears.

Some make up whole stories you’ve been telling yourself, about how things ought to be and about how things were. Some of these stories have shaped your life. Your decisions, your relationships, your self-image.

But things just exist because you’re thinking of them. “No thought, no ocean.” Thoughts are thin air and they’re just there, and when they vanish life feels quite different.

But a thought often hurts even more than the event itself. What if it keeps coming back? What if makes you suffer?

You cannot really drop it but you could try kindly questioning it. Is it true? Wounded ego and feelings aside. Is it really true? Let your body and soul give you the answer.

How does it feel to believe that thought? (There is a chance it’s not great.) How would things be without it? (They would probably be better.)

Why is it here though? What is the underlying belief? Turn it around until you find out what it’s hiding.

Until it suits you better. Until you realize it actually has to do with you more than it has to do with others.

How freeing to know you have the solution to your problems.

And that thoughts may well be here but that it doesn’t mean you always have to believe them.