It's easy to get lost in painful thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations, and other experiences.It often helps to imagine your painful thoughts and feelings as an object.Screens are everywhere in the modern world. We hang them on our walls and call them televisions; we haul them in our book bags and call them laptops; we carry them in our pockets and call them smartphones. What is on all of these screens is literally everything we can imagine.
Your thoughts, feelings, memories, and sensations are like clips of a show on screen. Some of them are joyful, and they make you happy and content. Others are horrifying, and they make you anxious and. And yet, sooner or later, they all pass. And just like screens, awareness itself remains unchanged.
In a sense you forget you even exist. You become the story and the clips on the screen. Once there, life is on autopilot and the direction of life is based on mindless habits alone.
StevenCHayes It's a feeling we hold on to, longer than a positive one, but you can gain insights and wisdoms when you reflect on those negative feelings. They are there to tell us perhaps it's time to make a change and do things differently.