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Originally Posted by Anne2.0
It strikes me that these are all just thoughts, and thoughts do not need to be given great or even any significance. For example, I do not see why you are "ungrateful" for having thoughts about wanting more from your therapist. It seems like you are being hard on yourself.
What has worked for me when my thoughts are bumping into my present (usually nice) experiences is to just allow those thoughts to exit in the same way they came. Sometimes I imagine tying them to little balloons and letting them float away. It might be that meditation has taught me that thoughts come and go, and made it easier to let them go. And that I can choose which ones I focus on.
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Thank you, I love the thing about the balloons! I wish I could do this! I am seriously rubbish at that sort of trying to control my thoughts though. They just are free range and when I try to do that sort of thing I feel like I'm lying to myself. This is why me and CBT are a disaster.
My mother wants me to do a mediatation class, and I am interested. I just think I will be crap at it though. But perhaps like a lot of other stuff meditation can be learned, even if you aren't a natural at it.
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Originally Posted by hankster
Feels like background and foreground. A painting needs both. A life needs both. The background supports the foreground. Come to think of it, my drawings are not big on background. The foreground just sort of floats there - a weird bunch of flowers, the alphabet. I didnt grow up with a background. It feels like too much, doesnt it?
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This is a really interesting way to put it. So how do we get a background then? I am confused! How do we do it right?