Huh. Interesting. I will add it to my list of things to use....

Is it me or is it Memorex is one of mine.... Am *I* really thinking/feeling this, or is it the "habit" and "training" of my childhood? (And I show my age with that memorex reference, alas.)

Hmmmm...

Sometimes I don't trust what 'I think" or what "I think they think"... Sometimes "I think" way too much...

For me, it has a connotation of being able to, as you mentioned, read people's minds... There is no real way of knowing what someone thinks unless they express that to me...

I believe, for me, as a child I learned to "read" people... Sense them... Know where they are at... It was a matter of survival for me... Body language is a great trigger... Has always been and continues to be...

As an adult, those survival instincts still kick in and the only things
"I think they think" are fearful and negative and painful...

Like LeoX3 mentioned, memorex (I can relate to that)...

Are they old messages? Or are they truth?

Sometimes it is hard to discern... It depends on whose voice is playing in my mind at any given time...

"Is it me, or is it Memorex?"

For someone, like me, who has lived with amnesia, that could be an especially important question. Even when I had no cognitive recall of the events, the recordings leaked through constantly. So the theory goes...

Speaking of thinking, TIME magazine's cover story this week was on Mindfulness. Kabat Zinn's book Full Catastrophe Living was mentioned in the article. I ordered it from Amazon.com. Anybody read it already?

Delusional conjecture.

Otherwise everyone would be experiencing the conflicts inside other people constantly. And no one would have an identity. Nobody could tell a convincing lie either.

Arfie, I have read this several times....I know it's just me...but it reminds me of the stone that says "Turn me over," then the other side say "Turn me over"

I have been jumping shoes a lot lately, so I could be stuck here for a while...turning it over.

Here's the title: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness Paperback May 1, 1990 by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Author) , Thich Nhat Hanh (Author).

http://www.amazon.com/Full-Catastrophe-Living-Wisdom-Illness/dp/0385303122

Even has the word stress in the subtitle, so it seemed appropriate.

Anyone know about it?

No, jewells, I don't think it is just you. This would be a contemplation I that has occupied my thoughts more than once. Whether I am enduring someone who is telling me my mind or I am telling other people their minds, it is a recurring theme in our world.

Still turning.

And then, of course, there are the experts of "They think."

I had to put this stone aside, other stuff is demanding my attention, but it is in my "To Contemplate" box. I like the metaphor "Turn over" and "Turn over".