I was having breakfast with a group of friends including Daniela and her boyfriend Karl and I asked Daniela: “Do you know where the butter is?” and automatically I saw a thought running through my mind “This motherfucker (Karl) is going to think I’m trying to steal his girlfriend”.
This is how the mind often operates, completely absurdly. A few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have caught this thought but this time I did because I’m making the conscious effort not to have thoughts or beliefs blindly run my life. The first step for this is to be more aware of my thoughts, the second one is to question them. This thought wasn’t true, could other less obvious thoughts that are running my life not be true either?