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Leave your mind behind, the everyday practice of finding stillness amid rushing thoughts, Matthew McKay and Catharine Sutker

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non fiction

Leave your mind behind

Matthew McKay and Catharine Sutker

the everyday practice of finding stillness amid rushing thoughts

Introduction: The art of leaving your mind behind -- What do you think? -- Watching now : the moving band meditation -- Watching now : the inner and outer shuttle -- Watching yesterday : memory versus observation -- Pit bull thoughts -- Seeing and feeling versus judging -- Storytelling thoughts -- What's next : planning versus fortune telling -- Future thoughts : fantasy versus observation -- The conveyor belt of experience -- What do my thoughts -- Do to my life? -- The workability test -- Mental marriages -- Judging everything -- The great escape -- The seducer -- Rogue thoughts -- The thought storm -- Bossy thoughts -- Stale bread -- You are not a thought -- Just because you think it, doesnt make it so -- Rainy day acceptance -- The one track mind -- Bringing a thought into your awareness -- Looking for flaws -- Thoughts like stars -- Chain gang -- Move your feet -- What's this thoughttrying to do? -- What world are mythoughts making? -- Stop believing everything you think -- Labeling thoughts -- The fishing boats -- Letting go of judgments -- Draw your thoughts -- Say it again, sam -- Songs and silly voices -- The thought scramble -- The paperweight -- Pop up thoughts -- Well of sorrow -- White room meditation -- Take your chihuahuafor a walk -- The unhappy customer -- The thought lunchbox -- Hold a thought like a feather -- The chocolate thought -- Feeding the tiger -- Letting worry pass you by -- Moving into your life -- Dropping the rope -- Monsters

Everyday practice of finding stillness amid rushing thoughts