Notice it… don't feed it.

A simpler relationship with thoughts and feelings.

Thinking isn't the problem.

Thinking is useful. The aim isn't to stop thinking. It's to become more familiar with noticing when the mind has started deciding where our attention goes.

“Don't feed it” doesn't mean “don't feel it.”

It doesn't mean suppressing a thought or feeling, forcing yourself to think positively, trying to make a feeling disappear, controlling the mind or fighting what is already there. A feeling can be fully felt without automatically continuing to build the story around it.

By Justin Arndt. Available as ebook and paperback.

Over time, I began noticing how thoughts, feelings and urges could shape what I did next — sometimes in small everyday moments, and sometimes in much more painful ones. I became curious about what happened when I allowed myself to feel what was there without automatically continuing the story around it.

That curiosity eventually became my book, Notice it… don't feed it. Publishing it wasn't the end of the discovery. In many ways, it was the beginning.

Since then I've continued exploring this in work, relationships, cravings, exercise, distraction, self-consciousness, emotional reactions, focus and ordinary daily life. I'm sharing what I discover as I go.