What is your take on the idea that you shouldn't listen to every thought you have?

Juna Bobby MD, EdMFounder, MindBodySpace LLC · RELAX TO SOAR™️ Method Workshops • Mindbodyspace Podcast • NYU SOM M.D. • Harvard Ed.M. • Juilliard Resilience Faculty

Stop Believing Every Thought You Have

9 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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An author explains why you don't need to believe every thought that crosses your mind. She suggests acknowledging them, letting them pass, and not assigning them weight, especially when creating something.

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I write fiction, but there's hopefully a lot of emotional truth in it, and you can be a little more honest with fiction, maybe because it does that. I write some personal essays too, but yeah, every thought you have doesn't have to have the same amount of weight, or you take it seriously, or you can just let things like pass through, acknowledge it, let it go.

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One of the most valuable things that a lot of my students who are much older now tell me that they learned was that you shouldn't listen to every thought you have. Can you give us your take on that as an author? And you know, you write fiction, right?
I write fiction, but there's hopefully a lot of emotional truth in it, and you can be a little more honest with fiction, maybe because it does that. I write some personal essays too, but yeah, every thought you have doesn't have to have the same amount of weight, or you take it seriously, or you can just let things like pass through, acknowledge it, let it go.