A short mindfulness/self-development monologue (YouTube) by Jennifer Joy Jiménez that teaches noticing one’s thoughts and feelings as the primary transformational practice. The speaker uses a ship/river steering metaphor to show that awareness lets you steer your thinking—directing "thought energy" toward forms congruent with personal vision ("where energy goes, energy flows").
Notice what you're noticing. Notice your longing and your discontent. Notice if the thought you're thinking is expansive or contractive. This, for me, is the number one transformation tool, is if I don't notice what I'm noticing. It's like being in a ship going down a river. And there may be rocks in it, there may be rapids in it, and I'm just being tossed and turned by the waves or the wind until I put my hand on the rudder, and then I can guide it, because I'm steering my own boat. Only when I notice what I'm noticing am I steering my own thinking. And that's the direction of the energy that I'm directing. Where energy goes, energy flows. So I'm directing that energy, my thought energy, in shapes and forms that are congruent with my vision. But not if I'm not noticing what I'm noticing.
