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Originally Posted by MikeS80
It is key and a big start for one to know and see for him/her self that one thinks too much, by being conscious/aware of one thinking too much.
Controlling one thoughts and thinking is futile and is not necessary. Turning the habit of thinking too much into a habit of inner silence and not thinking too much is all one needs.
Thinking is not the problem by itself. The problem is conditioning/programming, which causes people to think too much and to have too many beliefs that are not true.
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Having too many beliefs that are not true is destructive cognitive behviour and/or a personality disorder, which is what most would call 'programming'.
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Originally Posted by MikeS80
I agree but our past experiences is what formed all of our memories, conditioning/programming, thus our (subjective) realities.
Edit our experiences are external -physical, internal-mental/emotional or a combination of the two.
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Cognitive behaviour forms our memories or more correctly the perceptions that form the memories, it is the mainly cognitive behaviour that 'decides' on what kind of experience we have but that is also in relation to other unconscious aspects of ourselve and our conscious self image/esteem - amongst other things. If you practice Right Thinking and have a healthy self esteem, you'll have a very different experience to someone who has low self esteem and destructive cognitive behaviour. There are a few conscious and unconscious 'subsystems' at play that create our subjective realities, and anything internalised has been processed by those subsystems first. Emotional trauma and the mental effects, for instance, are not reactions to actual events but to our perceptions of the events, and our inability to deal with them.