Hmm.. It's hard, I know.

T says eventually I will get to the place where thoughts, impulses, and emotion will be something I can step back from, get distance, and observe without attachment. This will be enlightenment. Mindfulness meditation helps. The Power of Now book or audiobook is great for learning how to accept your thoughts and notice and observe them without surrender to them.

You are not your thoughts. You are not your mind. You are so much more than that.