In most forms of meditation, you have to learn to let thoughts come and go. They are like cars passing by in the street outside. They are nothing to pay attention to. You notice them and then continue with your practice.
Another way of dealing with thoughts is to listen to them carefully. What is going on here? How can my brain produce so much crap, nonsense, and nasty stuff? How can I be so negative, small-minded, petty, and stupid? I want to be a good person.
So, because you don't want to listen to all this BS, you turn on your cell phone or TV. If you are driving a car, you will probably turn on the radio. I have used this strategy all my life, and it works quite well. I don't want to hear all the stupid shit my mind produces.
However, if you continue listening to your mind a little longer, you can learn more about yourself. You can also challenge yourself, your ideas, beliefs about the world, lies, pretexts, justifications, rationalizations, and spinning. You can also discover that you have genuinely warm and not stupid thoughts. You can find that you don't have just two voices inside your head, one good and one bad.
This is thinking meditation.
