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Originally Posted by cryoldman
could some negative thoughts "disguise" themselves to be other thoughts, or even mindfulness itself?
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That reminds me of what you said in your first post.
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Originally Posted by cryoldman
Kind of developing a super-conscience or a guide to the rightness or wrongness of our thoughts.
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For me I think one problem with that idea above is the "super-conscience" may be more thought disguised or imagined as something else. Does activation of it involve more focusing of the attention in thought?
I think of mindfulness as the practice of learning to take the attention off of thought or the mind. So to me, it's not a matter of thought being right or wrong. I think that's not the purpose of mindfulness. To me the purpose is learning we have the option in any given moment to transcend thought and thinking. In other words, place our attention elsewhere. On the senses for example or the world as it is divorced from our self centered thought based interpretations of it.
This is a good link if one wants to know the science behind it:
https://mpfi.org/how-does-mindfulnes...BoCdPQQAvD_BwE