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I have had a similar experience with negative self-talk. Maybe also due to anxiety at bottom and I just haven’t gone down that far. How far into the retreat wer

I have had a similar experience with negative self-talk. Maybe also due to anxiety at bottom and I just haven’t gone down that far. How far into the retreat were you before you noticed this? Anyway, the main insight I wanted to agree with is the realisation that much of your self-aware cognition is more like mental froth. Learning to observe your own thought processes is incredibly helpful and might help OP to understand their underlying mental behaviours.

russelldjimmy 5y ago
I didn’t have this realisation during the retreat, but in the months that followed (because I had been regularly practising). During the retreat, however, I did experience more clear mindedness, and more compassion than before. There was a moment when someone’s behaviour irked me and kicked off a spiral of negative thinking (all very easy to rationalise by the way!). But I soon snapped out of it and felt compassion for that person and let it go. It’s a process.