The Thoughts I No Longer Follow

Releasing the habit of believing everything I think

The Library: Mini Blog Entry

March Read: Don't Believe Everything You Think – Joseph Nguyen

There’s a difference between thinking… and believing every thought you have.

This book slowed me down in a way I didn’t expect. Not by adding more to the process, but by gently showing me how much of my mental weight was coming from thoughts I never stopped to question.

Don’t Believe Everything You Think isn’t about controlling your mind. It’s about loosening your attachment to it. Realizing that not every thought deserves your agreement, your energy, or your identity.

For me, this felt like another layer of release.

Not just letting people be who they are — but letting my thoughts pass without turning them into truth. Without building stories around them. Without letting them shape how I see myself or my life.

I realized how often I’ve moved through life reacting to thoughts instead of observing them. How quickly a single idea can become a feeling, and then a belief, and then a pattern.

This book interrupted that cycle.

It reminded me that peace isn’t found in fixing every thought. It’s found in not following all of them.

And that alone changes everything.

With Love, Always - La O.

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