I am not my thoughts, nor my feelings

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This is a very nice one and at the same time a very difficult one. As someone once asked me, "If I am not my thoughts, nor my feelings, what else could I be?". I have not an answer to the question and the thought seems to be very logical, natural. Of course I am what I think and what I feel. That is me!!

Here I dare to say that I choose to think differently. I think I am not my thoughts nor my feelings. And here comes the why:

  1. I really like the idea that I am not my thoughts nor my feelings. It frees me from the very compelling nature of thoughts and feelings: there seems to be no escape whenever I think something or when I feel something. How nice it is when all my thoughts and feelings are a choice: "I think this and I feel that but nothing is keeping me from having different thoughts and different feeling. I choose to think in a certain way, I choose to feel something. That choice can be made differently. I am free to choose whatever I want to think and whatever I want to feel. So I think I am not my thoughts, nor my feelings because I like it!
  2. Buddha tells me so
  3. Psychology but also embryology show that we are a lot of different things that are working together yet each one of those things is independent from the other things. I consider myself an ecosystem where there is a lot of cooperation but also a lot of independence of the different parts. Whether the parts are thoughts or the parts a cells. There is a lot of reason why we should see ourselves like this. The most appealing one is the fact that we can have conflicting thoughts. If we were one being reigned by a center of control, it is almost impossible to have conflicting thoughts.
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