Yogic action

I once had a conversation with my yoga teacher she told me this which I consider wise.

"You are not your thoughts"

We all have thoughts , good ones , bad ones daydreams , passions but the trick is to realise they are not you, but rather electrical impulses going on in your brain. So considering the brain thinks as its primary function it does not matter if you hallucinate one morning there is an imaginary spider in the sink or for a lifetime that your thoughts define you. You are living under the assumption that thoughts are like material objects this is the most powerful hallucination in the world as changing the material world takes effort whist changing one’s mind takes none.   This need not bother you so long as you consider the hallucination of identifying thoughts with the self was a delusion on not a reality or to put it another way just the brain spinning its wheels. In practical terms if I think a thought which upsets me I can separate my thinking out from my identity and it need no longer upset me.   

Personal history can be a trap too, though it does not have to be. It may be that you are where you are right now in life because of something you did or failed to do, or something someone else did or did not do. All personal history is thought to the brain is a story it tells it's self to make sense of the world. The mind gripping on to a thought is no different than the hand gripping the branch of a tree for fear of falling. Hold a thought if it helps you, if not” let it go” (yes frozen is a great kid’s film).

Always there is choice in any situation. Sometimes we need to act fast and sometimes slow and other times take no action at all. The brain is in situ in the body and is an organ just like the rest. The mind however is infinitely malleable and need not be so limited. A practice of Yoga which is just stretching the body or relaxing the brain is only a part of the yoga discipline the aim is to free the mind. To make it supple like the well trained body.

Thoughts to which one becomes attached cause no end of trouble. All they create are pointless disagreement both with the self and others, the game of do you agree with me? No then you are wrong. 

Take this example which is very present in our culture, and I do not see it reaching a solution anytime soon " I believe in god do you agree?”” "No”. "”then you are wrong now let me tell you why "........ “I am an atheist, do you not believe in god?” ““Yes". “then you are wrong now let me tell you why”. .....

This argument is pointless as no side can prove it validity; it just goes on with point counter point, point, counter point etc.... One can have open debate on the issue and an individual can even swap sides but still nothing is proven, it is still a game, an intellectual exercise which loops endlessly.
I have played this game myself assigning either side at times much higher merit dependant on whose book I vet just read. Realising a definitive answer does not come though the senses or the intellect I choose live with the uncertainty, I can return to the debate anytime I like or choose to ignore it (Mostly now I do the latter). I do this because we live with uncertainty all the time, and so it seems a saner way to live learning to let go of attachments where they serve no practical use.