Good Morning!
If you will recall, Lesson 4 was "These thoughts do not mean anything". Today, Lesson 10 is "MY thoughts do not mean anything". The sentences that stand out to me is in the first paragraph, are: You have no basis for comparison as yet. When you do, you will have no doubt that what you once believed were your thoughts did not mean anything. We are being told that our thoughts are not our real thoughts, but when we discover what our real thoughts are, we will know them and understand them because we have something to compare them to. This is encouraging to me.
In paragraph 4, we are given a mind exercise that has been very successful for me. We are told to imagine our thoughts as if they are parading by in front of us and are asked to pretend as if they have little meaning to us. When I get caught up in my thoughts and seem to be obsessing about thoughts that have no meaning whatsoever, except to torment me, I do this exercise. I pull my thoughts out of my body and pretend that I see them outside of me, marching by, as if I was watching a parade on Main St. Oh, there goes that silly thought about running out of money, or that wacky thought that I'm old, and on and on, until I get them all out and I send them on their way down the street. It helps me to first of all, detach from them, and second, to be more aware that they mean nothing at all. This kind of exercise is teaching us to be an observer of the thoughts, rather than the thinker of the thoughts. That will help us let them go easier.
Joan