Observe your own mind. Become aware of your conditioned thinking. How do you react in everyday situations? What kind of thoughts go through your head? Are you reacting to the negativity you see around you in the world? Your reaction will amplify that negativity.

Are you aware of what your mind is doing? Observe your mind, and be a witness of it. Are you aware? Are you present, alert, and in the moment?

We are not our thoughts. Our thought processes are dysfunctional. They evolved through thousands of years. This is how the ego arose: thousands of years of conditioning. And our combined egos have created the situation in the world today. Our individual fears, doubts, angers, jealousies, resentments - all these combine into a collective ego.

Observe your mind. What are you putting out into the world? Do you have negative thoughts or emotions?

The "voice in your head", of thinking, is conditioned by your past, by your childhood, by your upbringing, by the surrounding culture.

Recognise these conditioned thoughts. Learn to simply be there, as the witness of these thoughts. We cannot suppress our thoughts. We have to accept them and observe them.

Many people are totally at one with the voice in their head. They identify with that voice. They think they are that voice. But our thoughts are only a small and external part of who we are. Our thought processes are just surface layers of conditioning from the past. Underneath there is a much more essential part of who we are, the awareness of the thoughts. We are not our thoughts. We are the awareness of the thoughts.

(based on A New Earth 1)