The way I see it plenty people s seem to live in what The Bhagavad Gita (a book on yoga and consciousness) describes as 'animal nature', in that they do not nec

The way I see it plenty people s seem to live in what The Bhagavad Gita (a book on yoga and consciousness) describes as 'animal nature', in that they do not necessarily know that they're thinking and that they are constantly moved by the thought stream. They are very reactionary to stimuli. You may not be able to choose the content of your thoughts exactly, but you may be able to change how they work on you. I do not know how to scientifically quantify or test this but it is a reported by scores of people and can be understood experientially.