My Thoughts Are Not Me

Yesterday as I was meditating, my guide (Sam Harris) asked me to notice my thoughts, just like he often does. But this time I realised it, I noticed it, I saw what he always meant. In an attempt to dissociate me from my sense of "self", he often uses this method of noticing whatever arises and then noticing that whatever arises, just arises. That I do not have a say in whatever appears, whatever feeling it may be, or whatever thought it may be. And this time I (or rather he) was successful. I realised that the thoughts that I associate to myself are not "me", neither are they "my" thoughts, they are simply "thoughts", a result of some process in my brain. I did not intend to think whatever thought I was thinking about, it just appeared suddenly, without my consultance. I, for the first time, was actually able to dissociate myself from "my" thoughts and emotions. My thoughts and emotions, as I realised, are like an object that passes through the space that I call myself, my awareness, my attention. I do not have an authority over what object passes through my awareness, I simply have the option of either flowing with that object, or simply notice that object. And this is what manifests itself as "letting your emotions control you" or "controlling your emotions".