“I am, therefore I notice my thoughts.
Anybody who meditates and notices that the thoughts stop in deep meditation, they still exist.
You work hard to avoid what you don't want. How do you feel? Scared that it will happen tomorrow, or have to avoid the next thing, or whatever it is.
Once you get in the habit of playing that game, you lose. So instead you relax. When you relax, you will get some distance from the process of mind.
You don't have to fight it, you don't have to do anything. Just relax. Then little by little, it will stop, because nobody is listening to it.
Don't suppress it, don't touch it. Let it be what it is. There's a piano, there's a glass, there's a box of Kleenex, there's a bird singing, there are crickets cricketing, there's a mind complaining, there's a mind giving trouble.”
— Michael Singer
Stages of the Spiritual Path - A Continuum of Letting Go | The Michael Singer Podcast