I'm not sure, but if it's not already a yoga technique it probably should be. You might want to compare it to Ken Wilber's description of "witnessing," here.

I found a few other descriptions of "witnessing" online but so far Wilber's is the one I can relate to most easily. Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati starts out...

The process of witnessing your thoughts and other inner processes is elegantly simple once you understand and practice it for a while. However, in the meantime it can admittedly seem quite complicated....

...and then, I'm afraid, manages to make it seem so. This description sounds hardly better to me and if there are others, I haven't found them yet. [Edited to add: just found this one!]

I say there's a distinct possibility that you're doing just fine -- and worrying about it.



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Just because something isn't very common, doesn't mean it's bad. The normal curve has two tails.
-- FZ (you read it here first)