u/RockstepTriplestep

Beginner here. I'm having a hard time to 'watch them pass by like clouds/cars/leaves/..' . As long as I'm observing they don't pass because they are still on my mind. So when I try to imagine them passing by, I actively move them in my imagination,no?!. Feels like pushing away/ignoring, which is not the goal. So is 'let them pass' just me coming back to my anchor once I realized that I was "drifting"?

(Im thankful for any other explanation than the visual stuff like clouds)

Sometimes my thoughts are so heavy and intense that they don't "cloud away". The mindful way probably would be, to let them be there. Yet their heaviness and intensity bring me to a bad place, so letting them be there just sucks for the mood they produce.

Do you have those "weak" moments? And how do you manage?

(:

Hi,

I'm fairly new (2-3 months) to meditating and practicing mindfulness. I have an app with different meditations and a course guiding me thorough aspects of mindfulness. I try to practice mindfulness whenever it comes to my mind (which is very often). I do quite okay with the part of physical sensations (What can I see? What can I hear? What can I feel?).

Now I'm in the process of learning to let my thoughts come and go. With that comes also the process of learning to look at my thoughts from a distance, so I don't identify myself with them. My default mode is the ruminating mode, so they come easily. But I struggle to step out and just look at it. How do you that? Like actually do it? and not imagine to "zoom out like on a map"? And what do you do while looking at it, just looking or do you analyze it or something? (I do have ADD, if relevant.Just looking without doing...ugh)

And then letting them go. Phrases like "let them pass like clouds passing by" don't cut it for me. When I think of them passing by, well, i still think of them or of that whole process, which let them stay. How do you let them just come and go?

I am aware that it takes some time and practice. What helped you getting better to let them come and go?

Thanks for reading:)