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“Your thoughts have to understand one thing: that you are not interested in them. The moment you have made this point you have attained a tremendous victory.” ~Osho
“What do you do when you go out alone to the forest for the whole day?” my friend asked.
“Nothing. I just sit there, enjoy the peace, and let my thoughts be,” I replied.
“So you meditate,” she said.
“No,” I objected. “I just sit there and do nothing.”
“But that’s meditation,” she insisted.
I smiled and shrugged my shoulders. “Okay, if that’s what you want to call it.”
At that time, most people and society were a big, mean, frightening monster I kept trying to get away from—if not physically, then at least mentally by blasting music through my headphones, escaping far away in my daydream world, or by drowning my invasive negative thoughts and feelings in drugs and alcohol.
Yet, the real monster was inside of me and didn’t plan on leaving any time soon.
I remember how my social anxiety got worse around some people, usual…
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“Your thoughts have to understand one thing: that you are not interested in them. The moment you have made this point you have attained a tremendous victory.” ~Osho
“What do you do when you go out alone to the forest for the whole day?” my friend asked.
“Nothing. I just sit there, enjoy the peace, and let my thoughts be,” I replied.
“So you meditate,” she said.
“No,” I objected. “I just sit there and do nothing.”
“But that’s meditation,” she insisted.
I smiled and shrugged my shoulders. “Okay, if that’s what you want to call it.”
At that time, most people and society were a big, mean, frightening monster I kept trying to get away from—if not physically, then at least mentally by blasting music through my headphones, escaping far away in my daydream world, or by drowning my invasive negative thoughts and feelings in drugs and alcohol.
Yet, the real monster was inside of me and didn’t plan on leaving any time soon.
I remember how my social anxiety got worse around some people, usual…
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