Jake Burhans argues you're not your thoughts or emotions, but the observer of them. Shift from "I am angry" to "I am experiencing anger" to create distance from what passes through your mind, like clouds across the sky.
to break it, you have to break the habit of being yourself. You have to be aware that you're in those emotions, understand that you are not your thoughts or emotions. You're the one who observes them, 'cause that really helps you decouple from it. Like if you're trying to gain a new baseline level of being, you need to understand you're not your thoughts or emotions. It allows you to create separation from those things, separation from your thoughts, separations from your emotions. And not take them so personally. So instead of I am angry or I am sad, that's an identity thing. You're saying I am experiencing anger, I am experiencing sadness. That's the difference. And when you understand that, like, your awareness is the sky and those emotions and thoughts— my camera's going in and out— those emotions and thoughts are just clouds passing through the sky. That's it, right?
