there are SO many modules of thought active in the brain at any given moment. running through extremely practical evolutionary functions: self preservation, mate acquisition, kin care etc. scheming, plotting, strategizing, scanning our environment constantly, in so many ways that we’re completely unaware of. when a thought is thought, it simply means that one of these modules has grabbed our conscious attention. the thoughts we so densely identify with are mostly just self-preservation and survival tactics, functioning to carry our genetics into the next generation. i feel as though building your reality upon these thoughts, rather than observing them as a part of your reality, is doing the essence of your being an epic injustice!!! because you are not just a survival-mode-baby-making-machine. i suppose our environment has evolved quite a lot faster than our biochemistry. because now some of us are in extremely privileged circumstances where all our evolutionary needs are met, and we get the opportunity to look beyond the evolutionary functions of the mind. the mind does so much work for you behind the scenes, but you don’t have to listen all the time. you don’t even have to be aware of what it’s doing for you. in fact, even if you wanted to, there’s no way you could be aware of even half of what’s going on in there ((though you could certainly convince yourself you were.)) it’s not all that different from your body!! your body is an infinitude of processes, working ALL THE TIME to keep you up and running. and we’re barely conscious of any of it. we don’t think about flowing our blood or growing our hair, it just happens. we are only conscious of the feelings in our body that grasp our attention – pleasure, pain, an itch, an ache – but we don’t identify with these feelings! they’re just something our body is doing, that we have become aware of.