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Originally Posted by mcl6136
I'm going to ask again....why would any thoughts be unwanted? I mean...they might not be liked; they might be frightening, but couldn't they be transformed into something intriguing, useful, even illuminating in the end?
Simply banishing them strikes me as the most unproductive approach of all!
I'm simply asking here.....
Someone told me once: the facts are always friendly. I remembered that once when at a doctor's office receivinig a bad diagnosis. Isn't it better to know? I didn't like what I heard but stopping that unwanted piece of information wasn't an option.
I'll stop now. I'm having a nervous ridiculous day but I do wonder....
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I think generally avoidance strategies do not work and maybe this is the same for thoughts. If we try to avoid them, where does that leave us?
Mindfulness to me is just letting the thoughts do their thing, in the same way my heart does it thing by beating, my lungs through breathing - my brain by thinking. I do not have to be those thoughts in the same way as I do not have to be that lung rising and falling - I may become aware of it, but then I can choose to let the focus relax.
I think this is different from DBT, although I acknowledge that DBT may use similar techniques - my understanding is that we have old Buddha to thank for mindfulness...oh and Jon KZ.