Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...

Topics Covered: Where do useless thoughts come from? Useless thoughts are the offspring of false, failed ideas. The outcome of continuing to follow a failed idea is a failed result; Our best ideas about what it means to be strong have proven to be useless; An example of a false idea is that finding a way to comfort yourself is the same as being content with yourself...