Are your thoughts important, helpful, and needed?

Watch your interactions between the mind, the body, and the emotions, and what affects them and how they work. Watch your thoughts, stories, and reactions. Are they important and will they be good for you? Do we really need them or can we just let them go?

We can be aware of our automatic reactions. Of how we react to our thoughts, emotions, sensations, and all the other various issues that cause us to act. We can look, see, watch, and understand why we act automatically in the way we do.

Our past reactions, interactions, and responses make who we think we are. Maybe this view of ourselves is not completely correct. Try to understand and watch your reactions to your wishes, desires, thoughts, emotions, and sensations. Simply look at them, without taking them personally, and ask yourself if they are helpful or not helpful? Possible or not possible? Needed or not needed? If they are not needed, why are we doing them? If they are not possible, why are we wasting our valuable energy? If they are not helpful, we can just let them go and relax, or find better activities for our mind. We have the ability to be much more selective in where our mind takes us and in how it causes us to react.

Simple focus, awareness, and understanding provides us with tools to see our different options. If we can use free choice, we can choose helpful reactions and be happy and not cause more grief.

Knowing and understanding happens moment by moment and it can help us see and live with more choices. Living automatically in our habits, concepts and opinions is who we think we are, but maybe they are not us and maybe they are not always the most helpful.

The more choices and options we can see the greater our ability to live and react in more helpful ways. Giving ourselves a few extra seconds to look and see without reacting can provide surprising results.

The more we hold onto unnecessary and unhelpful issues, the more stress we cause. Letting go and just giving our concentration to what is helpful, necessary, and good is what we need to do for happiness. We have the ability to see our options and to choose what is helpful to us and those around us.