2021/5/22 is a second part of a first draft of something We'll say a thought is any mental action. Attending to a thought is done by feeling it is true, in a way. Thoughts that don't seem meaningful are dismissed in course. If it seems meaningful you may strongly react to it by pulling it into your focus or trying to push it out. Either way you are subtly labeling it as meaningful or true. This will cause it to come back to you and this reinforces it. The next time you think it you can reinforce it again and this cycle can continue until it is very well conditioned that you accept that way of thinking as part of your reality. If you simply let it go it will diminish over time as it comes back, returning due to present conditions or accrued conditioning. The reverse of the process. Eventually, if you let go without reinforcing, it will vanish from your experience. You can let it go without reinforcement in a few ways. One is to attend to another thought instead, another is to attend to nothing (which is a special kind of thought) or your beingness/experience of simply existing (another special thought type). Another way is to release it intentionally which is really just attending to the thought of a release process which is a different thought pattern. So essentially there is only one way with some different flavors, a couple of which are special. The only thing you can do is attend to a thought or release it. Any other more complex activity that you presume to perform is accomplished by allowing yourself to become a thought. Thoughts come to you continuously and you choose which ones to focus attention on. As you do you are enrobed in a thought or another and that limits what other thoughts may appear to you. This way experiences are navigated and decisions made. The programs of complex actions are played out as you reside within them. Thoughts that have become so engrained into your experience so as to seem indisputable are often no longer addressed by your conscious mind and reside within the subconscious. Many complex multi-step actions are stored there. Often they have a label that you use to activate them such as 'eating' which involves arm motions, jaw motions, tongue motions, and throat motions as well as specialized coordinated regulation of your breathing and some other things including sensing in various ways. If you consciously think you are to be 'eating' then you can activate the whole host of connected thought-programs. *The words get in the way of the ideas.