If the mind is not meditative habitually, before you know it, negative rities have bubbled up from the mind and taken over the mind. We think thousands of thoughts in a day, but the thoughts are not original or different or new. So letus become aware of our thought patterns. Put a little distance between yourself and the mind. You are not the mind. It is one lesson that ye should take away from the veranta society, is that we are not our minds. We are the knowers, the illuminers, the witness of our minds. In my light, the mind functions. Thoughts come up, stay and disappear. Not so easy to say that