Are You Not Your Thoughts?

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Jack Drexler: What would be the equivalent of becoming the consciousness, the loving or compassionate awareness, rather than being lost in the avatar and the creattions of technology? He says it's interesting that this feeling of stepping back and saying, you are not your thoughts, and the thoughts are not reality, can go viral. "Facebook is kind of like the exon of human anxiety," he adds. 'It extracts and pumps itself off of some of the worst parts of all ourselves'

When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. They have helped thousands of people find their way out of a mental loop, by moving deeper into it. It's a journey inward that reveals an important lesson for the architects of the attention economy: you cannot begin to build humane technology for billions of users, until you pay careful attention to the course of your own wayward thoughts.