Your Mind Will Stop Controlling You When You Realize This Simple Fact

Here's how to stop identifying with your thoughts and lose belief in mind. I have a 4-step process for you which if you follow, will help you dissolve mind identification and expose the non-existence of the personal self.
Here are the 4 steps:
Step 1: Know you are not choosing your thoughts
Step 2: Realize that the thought and thinker are one
Step 3: Don’t let thoughts claim identity
Step 4: Notice that the witness("I") never appears as any particular thing
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0:00 What you’re about to hear has to be practiced & experiences
2:09 Step 1: Know you are not choosing your thoughts
8:45 Step 2: Realize that the thought and thinker are one
13:46 Step 3: Don’t let thoughts claim identity
22:10 Step 4: Notice that the witness("I") never appears as any particular thing

[@ronnie4863]

I say this very very sincerely. DO NOT STOP watching Sunny’s videos. You might think now I got it; now I understand. Challenge that thought. This video hit me like a ton of brings in a good way. He’s amazing in facilitating our journey. Blessings in these turbulent and growing times.

[@louthefou4052]

💯 me 😂

[@miket1591]

How to challange that thought/deep.believe?

[@miket1591]

Yea haha. Same here. Today after this video i think: yes now i have it😄😄. Sunny recommend meditate everyday thats what i am doing now

[@giru7183]

You cant get anything, enlightenment is not something you can achieve!

[@ronnie4863]

@@giru7183 may I ask why do you think the conversation is about enlightenment

[@TheDivineShiver]

Once a person stops entertaining these endless thoughts and emotions that arise out of nothing, eternal silence is all that remains.

[@AshishPatel-yq4xc]

This video has solved an issue for me that I've had for years !!! to the point that I tried to suppress thoughts ( yes, I know , can't be done) as so many keep coming and it's an endless stream. To "know" that it's not me creating them, I have no choice on the content, etc is liberating! - thank you very much, Sunny. Let the thoughts come and go. I'm more at peace now , with them.

[@rajuk-uf1sl]

beautifuly put together sir

[@selfinquiryschool]

Happy it helped Ashish :)

[@shaunaashley5520]

when you said "the thought is the thinker" something just clicked. wow, thank you :)

[@lilyrocco1]

I saw that my random thoughts are thoughts from a bad childhood, and I certainly did not choose them! My conditioning

[@WigWamSam7]

Throughout the day, in normal day to day life and interactions, as you mentioned, we allow ourselves to function as the ‘I’ (the fake self). This appears to be where we struggle because, if we allow this, for such long periods of the day, it’s no wonder why it becomes more dominant than the ‘real self’. When I interact with people I try to pause slightly and imagine I’m speaking from the heart area of my chest. This allows me to be a little more considered in my communication and responses with others as opposed to answering spontaneously to questions in general without a filter. Hard to do though due to us giving so much free ride to the ego in day to day life. Meditation twice a day is certainly a start to become more aware of our true self but to be able to operate on this level 24/7 (in the busyness of ‘life’) is what we all strive to achieve but very difficult.

[@jennabutler8847]

You were never born .... you never die... what was born was the ego (persona) what was Born was the body

[@sevi4492]

"All that I take myself to be, is being witnessed! I the witness Am what?? Notice that the witness is never appearing!! Can you be that which you see to come & go!!!" Sunny your explanation is crystal clear!!! 🙏 I love your channel 💖

[@arthurlockwood8735]

The most important thing. Is he is saving. Peoples lives bhe as helped mentally big thanks 🙏🇬🇧❤️

[@ketwals2723]

We never can listen 2 that enough...until it really goes deeply in...the various Maya plays are not that easy...2 take down all at once or call it staying always prior 2 and clear. Thx ❤❤❤

[@joeymitchell5467]

I have come down with Alzheimer's Dementia and I find deep very deep meditation easier.I am able to shut down my thoughts very quickly.I have some clues of what it may be like leaving this place.

[@nandkishoredharmani900]

J krishnamurti 's thinker is the thought is difficult to realise.Though one has read so much one is only left with a headache.

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

It follows suit for me to continue inquiry: Who is liberated? It’d sure be awful if we were the thinker tho, however, look in any direction and we can see the incredible impact of people that identify as the thinker. Wars, greed, hatred and endless delusions. Thinking happens, myriad factors are involved. There is either too much thinking or not enough. I’m any case the result is suffering. Om shanti shanti shanti

[@ac35ad]

The part where you challenged us to stop thinking reminded me of watching the scene in Ghostbusters as a child. They had to “empty their heads” to stop Gozer choosing the form of the destructor from their thoughts. I remember being annoyed when they blamed Ray for thinking of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man because how can you just stop yourself thinking thoughts?! I think even back then I had the sense that thoughts just happen. *random musing, apologies! Exceptional as ever Sunny! I’ll have a more focused reply shortly 😅

[@daynemin]

Even a glimpse of a new found awareness to an old program is worth celebrating.love and light

[@willywagtail4182]

So helpful thankyou Sunny!

[@ssb9489]

Thank you so much for your guidance. It makes everything so clear

[@praveshdhawan3842]

Awesome exercise & steps. Thanks alot 🙏🙏

[@kalanithyravindran4374]

It is so crystal clear Sunny thank you

[@anirbanghosh1670]

Thank you.

[@lilyr.1432]

It is the conditioning! I do not choose my thoughts, specially the dooming and limiting ones. It is the conditioning. My thoughts have a very soft and subtle voice, but they are there spontaneously and without warning .

[@AffirmLife]

Thank you for everything 🙏🙂

[@robwinters5654]

Cheers dude. GL guys👍

[@sandycarter5300]

The thoughts talk. Wow. It isn't the body/mind that talks since there's no matter, no organized matter.

[@skyperg6364]

I watched this video like few days back and i just came back to say thank you so much Sunny, because the effect it has been having on me is beyond how i can even explain it here..... So again THANK U SO MUCH

[@artbymasz4706]

Happy Birthday Sunny! 🤗 Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. 💜

[@selfinquiryschool]

Thank you :)

[@laika5757]

Music to my ears... 🎼🎶🎸 Sunny u r fantastic. Thanks for sharing your wisdom around.

[@meerakarthikeyan8292]

Sunny, I love ❤ all your sessions

[@monauikewa3997]

I enjoyed the self inquiry you ‘ve used to show the difference between Subject(Pure awareness )and Objects… we are so much identified with body/mind as “I” the doer, that repeated meditation like this are of great value to redirect the attention to the screen(subject/unchangeable Constance) are true nature🙏🏼🙌🌹

[@infiniteformless]

Excellent teaching

[@rhondapelletier2141]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁YOUare such a GIFT!

[@selfinquiryschool]

Thank you Rhonda!

[@beingblissfulalways1845]

This is so liberating. It's getting better with every session with you. Thank you Sunny.

[@evian.]

Hi, what a great video. I have been listening to it on a loop. My question is who doesn’t like “my life”? Who is the judge I’m aware of? Thank you for answering.

[@radhamaja]

Tyvm🙏

[@simontuffs4106]

For me, thoughts seem to be like a jealous little demon, constantly demanding my attention.

[@AmnaMubashar]

Hi sunny, I feel kind of confused between self inquiry/ re discovering who I truly am. And mental health. I definetley understand now how free I am in my true nature and how there is actually no suffering. The belief in identity, and the mind cause so much unwanted pain. But the mental health aspect is still affecting my everyday life greatly. Fear, anxiety, insomnia, limiting beliefs and that voice in my head. It feels like I oscillate between my true nature presence and personal identity. Sometimes it feels like I’m entangled in that identity in everyday life. Do both aspects go together spirituality and mental health? Is it good to go for therapy and continue what I’m doing or will therapy reinforce the identity? Thank you for uploading such amazing content❤️

[@selfinquiryschool]

Hi Amna, you can continue going to therapy until it feels needed. When you no longer resonate with it, then leave it :) In the meantime, both approaches will help

[@millymoon9951]

Great question

[@ujjwaladiya2471]

i got it 😊

[@jamesbutler5908]

A bit like zen buddhism. Gracias amigo.

[@abhishekkatvi4508]

Wish you a very Happy Birthday Sunny! :)

[@selfinquiryschool]

Thanks Abhishek!

[@yogagooo7707]

This makes sense. Because if I was choosing my rhoughts.....every thought would be positive, empowering and nurturing. So yes i am just now analyzing and realizing its true i am not choosing my thoughts. Then who is choosing my thoughts is the question. And why does it so strongly automatically feel like i am choosing my thoughts? Why that automatic deep feeling of choosing is there? Whats going on. Cause it only common sense i am not choosing. Why the heck all these years did i not realize this so extremely simple and absolutely blatantly obvious reality. Someone does NOT want me to know. Thats why. Because Maaha maya does not want me to know i am not choosing my thoughts. Its a game (maya mind trick).

[@yogagooo7707]

So, clearly it must be conditioning that is choosing my thoughts. Thats only logical. Like 2 plus 2 is four. Its just so so plainly obvious that thoughts themselves are the inner sanskars (scars), (mental emotional inner scaring) or bio/psycho/chemical reactions from life events that happen randomly. Inner audio recordings of actual life events that happen from previous life experiences. Thoughts are likely from a biological recording type of response to life events. Like animals have instincts to act. Humans have inner recordings of events. Like muscle memory recordings. Inner recordings of the facts that happened to and around a person. Not at all personal. Just like a tape recorder. Inner verbal recording going on. The muscles record the life events. And the words that were taught as language just interpret rhe muscles recording of that life event and store that life event inside in the form of the language that was forced upon the person at a young age. That is why there are audio recordings inside and not just visual memories.

[@ramadeviramu3340]

Happy Birthday Sunny 💯. U n ur videos r a blessing to me 😍

[@selfinquiryschool]

Thank you! Happy the videos are helping you :)

[@phyllisboyle1162]

What if the thoughts bring up uncomfortable symptoms? Anxiety

[@robertsousa9550]

Would someone that doesn’t know a language have thoughts/thinker? Can we even really think without words? Hmmmm Animals (like my dog) think to some degree - but without words. My dog always seems happy. She doesn’t know words and therefore doesn’t have the problems we think we have. Lucky dog. lol

[@artikarna3377]

Studies show people who are deaf, even those who never learned language, still think. They think in images, pictures, they still have the mind chatter in sign language.

[@DANIEL-do7uy]

THANK YOU SO MUCH...CAN YOU RAISE VOLUME WHEN RECORDING??...BEST WISHES!!

[@KandyKoatedKrafts]

Happy birthday ☀️

[@selfinquiryschool]

Thank you Kandice :)

[@sophritoh]

You’re at 44.4K :) I’ve been seeing that number everywhere lol, 4:44 today and yesterday and phone at 44%

[@marinusvandenberg1431]

I truggel whit observing, the moment I obverse there is no mind no thought no thinker it just vanish 😅 so how to observe if there is nothing to observe, but the moment I stop observing I find myself lost in thoughts 🙈😵‍💫 it’s very tricky 😂 😂

[@keithofthejungle]

At times I experience life without thinking... I am still in experience, but without thinking. The "thinker" is an aspect of experience, like sight... Am I my eyes...?

[@brainiac31K]

First of all, thanks for all of your videos. I, a lifelong musician, when trying the first experiment, was thought-silent for a bit and used my ability to hear music that has never existed before while no verbal thoughts appeared. Then, however, the first thought appeared describing the music I heard. I mention this to wonder if listening to music in head, not from memory but new sounds, is a form of Not Thinking or just another thought. No thoughts are vocal in my head in these brief states.

[@maud3203]

I have the feeling that it is the thinker that is observing through my eyes and that is searching for the thinker when the thought disappeared..; I also thought that you cannot do the exercise of searching where there is a thinker when there are no thoughts, without a thought!! it looks like it is thinking everywhere without hope to get out of it! hope anybody see or understand what I am saying...

[@selfinquiryschool]

Watch this video it will help you resolve this kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZaciZtrf7-Hirc

[@herbertmorales7299]

It's easy when you are in a nice room with a microphone. What kind of thoughts can come? Dinner, clothes, girlfriend?? It is possible also in real life, and that's where liberation awaits.

[@sandycarter5300]

Is there an experiencer apart from experience ; a knower of pain/ disease/disability apart from the claim of pain/disease/disability? Chronic pain does claim to be a self. It does say "i". Every belief is saying "i", claiming subjectivity. The "body" says "i". The body is nothing other than so called sensations and feelings. Feelings and sensations are not just the objects of perception. They are claiming "i". It is the level of identification, i.e., the degree of energy with the identification that determines if sensation, pain, disease, disability are experienced as subjective, as "i".

[@pvgopiabnle]

Just wonderful🥰 but one doubt. " being aware" that " iam " is also thought? The experience that i exist is at a thoughtless state? If yes, at which point in a daily routine a human being experience it? Or any desciplne is necessary to experience it? May be iam asking this since i never noticed or experienced such a state till this moment 😥 Rather my question may be: Is there an " i " at all to experience itself in the absence of thought?

[@selfinquiryschool]

Watch this video for clarification on this kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZaciZtrf7-Hirc

[@MissBardoJeep]

Hi Sunny. I have a question: did you have a moment of awakening where the ego permanantly dissolved? Eg as Maharishi described?

[@selfinquiryschool]

No, nothing of that sort :)

[@mearss]

This has happened to me... and you then realize that there is no separation, and there is no 'you', there is just life playing out...thoughts, words, colours, sounds, movements, that's all that's really happening - and the 'me' is just an added feature that claims everything that's happening. It's so extraordinary yet simple.

[@abrahamabraham9942]

Experience is never a validation..

[@ledaleda5017]

❤

[@13_Kas]

Why do our thoughts come true if we are not our thoughts?

[@Olivier562]

🧠💫💫💫

[@roseaynn1]

Who is observing the thinking

[@roseaynn1]

Who is observing the thinking?

[@selfinquiryschool]

You! :)

[@kathleen9272]

It's an hallucination, that's why it's not real.

[@miket1591]

And how to found out that for yourself?

[@kathleen9272]

@@miket1591 That chattering in your mind.

[@miket1591]

@@kathleen9272 so you need to tind this for yourself in your mind and see/oberve it? And then you are free?

[@kathleen9272]

@@miket1591 You have to disengage from it. Then you're free but it takes practice to understand that that voice is not you.

[@miket1591]

@@kathleen9272 ok thanks for info Kathleen. And disengage you can achieve with meditation?

[@jasonc8910]

Thank you.