{"id":884,"date":"2008-11-26T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2008\/11\/26\/thoughts-without-substance\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:33:47","slug":"thoughts-without-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"thoughts without substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am finding the recognition that &#8220;thoughts have no substance&#8221; helpful in freeing me from the reactivity I experience around thoughts and their contents. It has been useful to consider &#8220;thoughts&#8221; as a space in which\u00c2\u00a0 content appears. This helps establish the image of thoughts as bubbles. Just recognizing thoughts as bubbles of space, (regardless of the content) immediately reduces the appearance of &#8220;substance&#8221; and thus the &#8220;gravity&#8221; of the experience to draw attention and perpetuate the contents next moment.<\/p>\n<p>Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finding the recognition that &#8220;thoughts have no substance&#8221; helpful in freeing me from the reactivity I experience around thoughts and their contents. It has been useful to consider &#8220;thoughts&#8221; as a space in which\u00c2\u00a0 content appears. This helps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-therapist","category-tsk-online-fall-2008winter-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}