So in this lesson, I'm going to show you how salt works to create a thought feeling bonfire. We have around about 90,000 thoughts a day. Most of them are cruising around in the background of our mind, we don't even matter where it's kind of like a radio playing in the background. And we have this experience of thinking, I suppose some thoughts are more important or more valuable or more meaningful than others. But in fact, on a physiological level, all sorts are essentially the same. They're just a little firing off a bunch of neurons.

And that is what I would such commonly call a brain fart. So 90,000 brain farts today, and each one of them is like this little tiny piece of tissue paper that lights up and burns and becomes ash cools down and blows away. Here's the thing about thought is that some of our thoughts feel much more interesting, much more sticky, if you will, in others. And that is true because we've had this massive amount of past experience. We've had all sorts of conditioning, we've had all sorts of things that have happened to us that makes some things feel more meaningful, more important to us. This is just the Bible functioning of the brain, we say, oh, that one's important that one isn't.

But what's interesting about that is that that one may be important to me and unimportant to you completely. So I will show you how we use a single sport to create a bonfire, Bonfire of bad feeling in this particular experience. Each thought is a little tissue paper that we fought us 90,000 thoughts a day. Let's see how we make a bonfire. So let's say for instance, that I'm in the shower in the morning, and I reach over and I grab to shampoo and I squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, I guess. And I know we're running out of shampoo.

Yeah. Now that this little brain fart, this is this happened, it's burned and it's gonna burn away and turn to ash and this I add something to it pretty quickly. But the thing is that shampoo is not a really interesting subject to me. It's not a particularly tricky subject for me. And so this idea that I need to put something on the shopping list to go and buy more shampoo is going to disappear out of my brain pretty quickly because the next thought of 90,000 is coming along in quick succession. And when I get downstairs to the kitchen, we also have my shopping list written on the wall.

I might, by some miracle, look at that list and think ah, put something on that list. What was it? What was gone it's gone because shampoo is not Interesting. And so I've had 1000 thoughts between the time that I've gotten off the shot and gone downstairs kitchen. before I've even come to the place where I can remember, what am I supposed to be rushing on the board. But let's say for instance, that I had some past experience that's made shampoo a bit more interesting to me a little bit more stickier subject to me.

So let's say for instance, that when I was young, or even now my hair was very fuzzy or curly, and it stands up and it gets very static. And then it's like, and I looked like this crazy thing. You know, there's clouds with the big curly red. Yeah, like that. It sounds like that. And let's say that I had to buy a very particular shampoo, a very expensive shampoo from a very particular place that I hated to go to it was far away and it offers a drag.

Can you see this a lot more thinking available for me around the subject of shampoo. So my brain farts out the first idea or I must buy shampoo, that's, well, I have to put some fuel on the spot pretty quickly. If I'm going to build a bad feeling bonsai out of the idea, I must buy shampoo. So let me get some newspaper. I'm going to put that on the fly. Now newspaper has a bit more fuel available too.

And it's going to burn a little bit hotter, it's going to be a bit more interesting to the Brain, Brain labs, trauma. And so, my brain said, this is an interesting subject. Let's see. So let's say my newspaper was the next book. The next one was our I've got to buy that expensive shampoo or my hair is gonna go and look like a car. The newspaper is not going to be very long unless I follow this up with another thought.

This hostile train is going to leave the station. So quickly, quickly skip some some tweaks, some little tweaks to add to this file. This one's a little bit about Harvard shampoo is so expensive and how it's not fair that I've got this terrible Hey, And everybody else in my family has got fine here. And why am I the victim of bad hair days. And now the tweets are burning and they're looking good. They are creating lots of heat, lots of chemical emotional feeling in my body.

And they're very interesting to my brain, my brain is going Whoa, what's this? What is this interesting subject that we're on. So now maybe I want to put a lot on this, because those tweaks even as hot and as interesting as they are, I'm not going to take a hell of a long time before they burn down, turn to ash and blow away. So if I want to make a profit that's getting bonfire, I better add some more fuel and I better add a good big one and that's been as fast. So let me go and get a lot. A lot of pie.

Yes, I think I'll go back and revisit that time when I was a child, and some kids taunted me or teased me about my hair. It's gonna put that lock on the fire. Well, now for the last few And I've got a good healthy fire burning. And that's going to be really, really interesting to my brain. And as interesting as it is for my brain, it's going to be difficult for me to turn away and become distracted with another train of thought. So now I can go and revisit the past, let me go and pretend that I'm busy having an argument with those children.

I'm busy defending myself against the bullying in that moment. And I can picture quite clearly. I'm imagining that I'm six or seven or eight to 10 years old, and I'm busy fighting with some horrible little children at school. Well, if that's not good enough, let me go get another log for the firewall. Now I can imagine that this new job that I'm supposed to be interviewing for today, they'll never hire me because my hair looks will look like a mad thing. And I can respect somebody who looks like this.

So let me get off the shot and walk past the mirror and see the same light on my bomb and say, Oh, geez, well, I'm so angry anyway. And now I go to the mirror and I look in the mirror. As I'm putting a bit of makeup on, and I'm thinking up the wrinkles and I'm so ugly, it's so disgusting. And I've got a good bonfire burning now. From a bottle of shampoo to see how it works, our mind loves trauma. Anger is a form of trauma.

And our mind loves to get engaged. It will borrow stuff from the past, it will borrow some imagination from the future. It will make up an argument it will imagine talking to somebody it will have a field day and just be creating more and more response by putting more and more locks on the fire. Here's the problem. There is no putting the fire out. The fire has to burn out.

The nature of our body is that when we have these chemicals produced and flowing around in our bloodstream and informing our body how to work. They have to literally be mocked up And the reaction that they've created has to settle down. And so they have to be broken down and broken up by the liver and sent on their way. That's gonna take some time. And so the problem was feeding our feeling with more and more brain fog is that the bigger we make this bonfire, the longer it's gonna take for the woods to burn down. So to actually fly away, the more time we spend engaged in poor quality thinking around the subject that is informing our anger and making us feel more emotional and making us feel more peaceful, the longer it's going to take for us to be able to settle down and return our emotional state of well being.

And the harder it's going to be for us to step away from that kind of thinking. It makes perfect sense and when I've got a huge bonfire going on here, I'm not turning around to look at something else unless there's fireworks behind me. So we have to become aware that we are the one that's adding wood to the fire. And we have to become aware that we don't want to add more wood. That each piece of wood that we answer this time is us creating suffering for ourselves. This is not about the outside world about the thing that somebody said or did or didn't do.

This is about the thinking that is generating more and more, more and more fuel. And the more fuel we deliver to the fire, the longer it's going to burn, and the more potent it's going to be within our body. And then, of course, as an angry person, the more potent it's going to be into the world, the more we're going to react and just vomit all of that feeling off onto somebody else or some situation. So here's what we need to be doing. We need to be waking up awareness. There's a part of our brain that is watching the show now.

Begins based upon about brain that can wake up to the fact that we believe building a bonfire right now. And the sooner our brain wakes up to that fact that we're busy building a bonfire, the sooner we can stop adding water. Now, you can imagine that if I wake up to the fact that I'm busy creating an angle on fire, when only the tissue paper is burning, it's not going to take much to dislodge that thought, and move on to something else. I have 90,000 thoughts lined up and ready to rock and roll. But if I wait to become aware, only after I've got hostile neighborhood on fire, it's going to take a hell of a lot more interesting stuff to distract me from this bonfire. So what we want to do is we want to train awareness to wake up really, really early in the process.

We want awareness to become aware, long before we've created a huge bonfire, preferably right here, when there's just a tiny little thing. tissue paper that we can easily walk away from. This is how we create the bonfire of anger. So the story that I was telling you was the bonfire bad feeling of a lack of self worth. But I'm sure that you could tell a story about your bond five anchor. What was the last bond five anchor that you create?

And what was the story and the the fuel that you were putting on that fire? And how long did it take before you even recognize that you were creating a fire? And how long did that fire last? How big did you make it and how long did it last? Such it's been a couple of minutes for me thinking about that. Your last anger experience and try to recognize how you were fueling the fire can be really really useful too for you to be able to see new fuel to fire with your thinking.

You create a desktop from thinking the best Suffering was not created by the outside experience at all. But instead by the inside out experience, created insult perpetuated in chemical and experienced as feeling and then vomited out onto the world as behavior. So what we're doing together here is waking you up to a new understanding. You used to look at the world as though your experience of anger came from the outside in and slowly but surely as this course progresses, waking you up to a new understanding. And that is the old feeling of being generated from the inside out. The only thing that the outside world does for you is go, tap tap.

Would you like to think we go hallease and it's not going to be good. It is the nature of the mind to lean towards the negative, we have to watch it. So here's the thing about thought. We tend to take our thoughts very, very seriously. Have you noticed that some of our thoughts we take particularly seriously, they feel very real task. So real in fact that we need to have feeling and action as a result of them.

But our mind is it's tossing up 90,000 thoughts a day. And we've been actually quite selective about which ones we decide to take very seriously, and to perpetuate and to take action. Now, I want you to consider that it is the nature of the mind to fart at 90,000 thoughts a day, just like it is the nature of the colon to find out what is the best to say Alito far today? Now here's the thing. When you call on Fox if you don't respond to it, you don't react to it except maybe take a little snuff. Good one.

You don't worry about it. And you certainly don't take it as a sign that there's something going on that needs to be sorted out. When our mind spots hotspot, we need to learn to be so comfortable as we are. See if we were driving say in our call and we like a good one. Do we a roll up all the windows? Take a seriousness.

Oh, that's bad. Although smell the garlic smell last week students gonna die or roll down the windows net, the wind comes through let the fog class and carry on. And by the end of the day we don't even have a memory that you see the difference between the mind and our colon is that when it comes to our colon we understand something. And then is that the nature of the code on is to pass out a stinky thought? Well, I'd like you to understand something about the mind. The nature of the mind is to fart up 90,000 thoughts a day, some of which are thinking thinking.

Just because we have stinking thinking does not mean the best foot is more meaning more purposeful, more useful, or that we should be doing anything more about that thought than any other thought that comes along. We don't have to have to metaphorically roll up the windows, and really get involved in that thought. Especially if that thought is not useful to us. If it is not serving our emotional well being is not serving the well being of our life. So just like we can open the windows in the car, we can open the windows of our mind allows us to move on, and for another soul to come in. We do not have to get engaged.

And this is what we often don't realize the thinking. We think that because the thought comes along, generates an emotion for us. But there's something more to it. There's something very real about this something that has to be done about. Well, that's not true. Your brain is farting artifacts in the same way that your colon is farting out and you need to learn to treat your brain the same way you Treat your colon.

As though the nature of the colon is to fart about farts. And there's nothing that has to be done here we'll be concerned about. Well, the nature of the mind started thinking and it's nothing to be done or to be concerned about. Simply let it go and the next one will come along in due course.