Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Feb/Mar 2020 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 49

It’s Just a Thought, Not Your
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REALITY
BY AMY JOHNSON, PHD
our entire life is made up of one fleeting experience
after another. Some experiences feel clearly apart
from you. You experience a thunderstorm, the flu, or a
mosquito bite, and those things are obviously not “you;”
they are only what happens around, within, or to you.
Other experiences feel more internal; the line between
them and you seem less clear. The thoughts that run
through your mind, the emotions you feel, and the urges
you dismiss or obey are experiences you are having
as well. They are no more “you” than a thunderstorm
or mosquito bite, although they can feel like “you,”
because they appear to occur within you. Still, “you”
are the witness to all that you experience, inside and
out. Everything you experience is temporary. You are
not it, it is not you, and none of it lasts very long. It is
fleeting; by the time you notice it, it is already changing.
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