Remarks on...
Thoughts, and who would've thought there's "something" thinking them for you
Watch and read the Extended: A Guide to Physical Materialization (Part 3 - Volition and Intent)
Read and listen to the Extended: On What a Mind Is, How a Mind Arises
Take the Deployment: The Location Inside the Body You Can Safely Operate From
Brought Forth…
Thought is an elusive word. What is a thought? Not what this or that thought is about, but what is it that it is. When incoming thoughts happen, they give you a chance to realize you are acting as their observer in the first second or two, with the possibility of holding it longer. And if you're initially observing them, “who” or what is running them for you? Because just so it happens you’re using the body to perceive thoughts with, the body is doing that for you, primarily; without your directing or participating with those motions.
Sparks of electromagnetic activity blasting through the mass of your brain. But that’s not necessarily what you are “seeing.” What you get to observe is the result of it, the translation of that movement, what we call thoughts.
But thought is the name we give to it. What you’re observing is the actual communication of those movements of the body, from the body to you. (Only made possible after millennia of evolutionary transformation held by the body, from one human species to another.) And if we’ve been only observing, mainly because we’ve been “thinking” those thoughts were originally ours, then first off, how do we distinguish them, who’s thinking what?! And second, how do we communicate back?
“Are these thoughts, the ones being processed by my body right now, mine or my body's?” This is exactly the line we didn’t pay enough attention to in order to discern what or "who" was initiating what movement and for what. And so the line between what is you and what is your body got blurred.
There is a whole world taking place inside your body that is happening without you, despite of you. At the same time, there is a whole world taking place within you, within the scope of what you are, which, just so it happens, it is placed inside your body as well. And that location is not your brain. It is not even happening (as in, presenting itself physically) in and at the same large scale of the size of things of the body; it is a "container" filled with enormous amounts of particles which are residing inside your body at a much smaller scale in comparison to the size of things inside the body, including organs like the brain and heart. And guess what?! You're "thinking" from there. (Because “there” is actually you.)
Show-How (a bit intense, but hang in “there”)…
The line separating what is you (and your “movements”) from what is the body (with its movements) gets blurred when (starting at an early age) we (that conglomerate of particles consisting in simply what you are, inhabiting the body) are "pulled" toward, and even into, the brain. We start "thinking" from there. Then your "thoughts" (your mind) get mingled with the "thoughts" of the body (its mind).
"Are you saying there is a difference?!" There sure is! "Does that mean I can think independently of the body, then?!" You sure can!
The primal question is: Where are you coming from, physically?
And the subsequent question to that is: What kinds of movements are being generated that are able to impulse through certain kinds of “contents,” those of which can be understood directly by you (the navigator of and with those movements, containers of your own mind), or which can be translated by the body’s brain, the device or apparatus (holder of its own movements, separate than yours, and containers of its own mind), receiver of those impulsed contents?
Good to Know (lighter now, nevertheless, pointed)…
Then, the questions become about instilling a level of awareness that can operate it all with greater clarity in order to distinguish what’s processing what, and where that processing is initiating from.
Getting hold of that process is about getting hold of how your attention operates within the body. And experiencing the literal movement of your attention is how you start.
[Movement of Attention] To do that, you pinpoint the upmost point of your attention inside the body by asking “where am I right now?” and verifying the location you’re coming from within the body at that given moment. When you do that, you instantaneously shift your perspective point physically inside the body from being with the brain (and minding its business) or heart or whatever other location or organ within the body, to being with (and from) the point of you, observer of that location [you find yourself parked at] inside the body with your point of attention.
You’re then freed to roam about freely within the body and choose the location that suits you best for the exploration you’re then just about to start. A whole new world out “there,” I mean, within you. There’s no place like home!