A SELF-STUDY PROGRAM
What we were never taught about Thought
You’ve probably already tried a lot to manage, change, calm or control the thoughts that never seem to leave you alone. This program does something different. It is not another method or another technique. It starts somewhere much more fundamental - by stopping to look at something we live with every day but rarely question: our own thoughts.
Six weeks. Five exercises a week. Thirty opportunities to look for yourself.
30 inquiries · 5-15 min per day · at your own pace
There's a reason monks have spent years sitting on mountaintops and in remote temples, and it's the same reason we've always thought of them as wise. They simply stopped long enough to see what was actually there, instead of what they'd been taught or learned to believe was there. And in that seeing, something let go.
Most of us don’t have the luxury of sitting on mountaintops. But what we are exploring here is not so different. And most of us do have five to ten minutes.
We’ve learned that change requires effort. That we need to try harder, do better, manage more, control what we feel and fix what we believe is wrong. And so the search continues - with new methods, new habits and new ways of becoming who we think we should be.
But what we were never taught is the most fundamental and simplest thing of all: what thought actually is. How it affects us. What it affects. And why we suffer when we take our thoughts to be absolute truth and believe that we are our thoughts.
The thing that is right under our noses is the very thing we never talk about.
The purpose of this program is not to give you a new set of beliefs. It isn’t trying to replace one idea with another. Instead, it points towards something you can see for yourself - what is constantly changing in your experience of life, and whether there is anything that doesn’t.
Each day, you’ll get a reminder to stop and look at something as fundamental as thought itself - something most of us have never really been given the chance to examine. Over these six weeks, we’ll keep coming back to what you can actually see for yourself - learning to notice the difference between what is happening and what thought is making of what is happening.
One exercise at a time. Not to give you something new to believe - but to let you look at something that has been there all along.
Five lenses - all pointing towards experience itself.
Thought
You’ve been thinking your entire life. Your thoughts can keep you awake at night, make you fall in love, quit a job, start an argument, change countries or become absolutely convinced that something terrible is going to happen. And yet - what actually is a thought? Where does it come from? Why does one disappear without a second glance while another can change the course of your life? We live with thoughts every day, but rarely stop to look at them. That’s where we begin.
Feelings
Feelings and thoughts are often treated as separate things. But look a little closer and you may find they are not as separate as they seem. Understanding that changes how we experience feelings - not as something we need to manage, but as something we can begin to see more clearly.
The Body
We can get completely lost in thought, but the body is always here. It’s where we feel what is happening - the tightness, the warmth, the tension, the knot in the stomach. And often, before we have even worked out what is going on, the body is already telling us that something is happening. Not what it means. Not what we should do about it. Just that there is something here to notice.
Time
The past can only be experienced through memory, ie. thought, appearing now. The future can only be imagined now. And the present - can you even find it? We organise almost our entire lives around time, but rarely stop to look at how we actually experience it.
This "me"
This is at the heart of it all. We spend an enormous amount of energy defending, improving and maintaining the image we have created of ourselves - ie. our self image. But look a little closer at that image - your name, your history, your roles, your ideas about who you are and who you should be - and ask how much of it exists outside of thought? This lens doesn’t ask who you should be. It asks something much more fundamental: what is this "me" we spend so much of our lives thinking about, protecting and trying to improve?
- all pointing towards experience itself
What happens when you see thought for what it is?
Something changes in how everything else is experienced.
The invisible audience in your head - the one that is always watching, always judging, always keeping score - begins to lose its grip. Not because those thoughts disappear, but because you begin to see them for what they are - thoughts. And with that, some of the pressure to constantly perform, prove yourself, defend yourself or stay in control can begin to ease.
We live so much of our lives in our heads - in the past, in the future, in stories about who we are and who we should be. Watch a small child who has just discovered a puddle or a butterfly. For a moment, there is no audience to impress, no image to maintain. They are simply absorbed in what is there. Over time, we learn to see ourselves through imagined eyes - how we look, how we’re doing, whether we’re good enough, whether we’re getting it right. And that direct contact with life, which once came so naturally, can become harder to notice.
What we are exploring here isn’t new. It points back towards something very simple - what was already here before we learned to take every thought about ourselves quite so seriously. We have become extraordinarily sophisticated at studying the content, patterns and effects of thought, while the most basic question remains remarkably difficult to answer: what actually is a thought?
It’s like becoming an expert on waves while the nature of water itself remains a mystery.
That’s what we’re doing here. Asking.
What can begin to ease is the struggle. Less energy goes into fighting thoughts, fighting feelings, fighting what has happened or what we’re afraid might happen. Not because life becomes easier, but because there is less to fight when we begin to see what thought is doing.
And when the pressure inside begins to ease - what happens outside often seems to change by itself too.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
The Weekly Structure
6 WEEKS · 30 INQUIRIES
Each day, you’ll receive an exercise in your course portal - five days a week, for six weeks. You’ll also get a simple reminder email to help you keep the thread going.
The exercises don’t build on each other. They are 30 different ways into the same thing. Each week covers all five lenses, and every exercise is practical - designed to let you look for yourself and experience what each lens is pointing towards, rather than simply reading about it.
Some exercises will land more deeply than others, and that’s completely natural. But together, they all point in the same direction - towards experience itself, whatever path you take to get there.
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30 Inquiries
Five per week.
Each exercise takes just a few minutes to read- how long you stay with it is entirely up to you.
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Simple reminders
One simple email a day
- nothing more than you need.
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Your own course portal
Come back whenever you like
- the program will be there for you.
Option 1
What we were never taught about thought
SEK 1.995 incl. 25% VAT
Your own course portal with 30 inquiries
Daily reminders
Option 2
What we were never taught about thought plus a 75-minute private coaching session
SEK 3.060 incl. 25% VAT
Your own course portal with 30 inquiries
Daily reminders
Includes a private 75-minute session where we can explore what you’re seeing, questioning or perhaps struggling with.
FAQ Section
What if I don’t have time?
The exercises are short on purpose - around five to fifteen minutes. And if you miss a day, simply pick it up again the next day. There’s nothing to catch up on.
How long will I have access to the course?
The exercises are delivered through your own course portal, and you’ll continue to have access for as long as I am still coaching and running courses.
Is this like mindfulness, NLP or CBT?
There are similarities - all three are interested in thought and how we relate to it. There are hundreds of different forms of psychotherapy, treatment and coaching, many of them working with the content of thought, patterns of thinking or our relationship to our thoughts.
This program starts somewhere slightly different. Before trying to change, manage or work with thought, we stop and ask the more basic question: what actually is a thought?
That question is where this program begins.
Do I need any previous experience?
Not at all. You don’t need to know anything about psychology, mindfulness, coaching or any of the ideas explored in the course. In fact, you don’t need to believe any of it. The exercises are there for you to look for yourself.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, partially. Because the exercises are released gradually, you can receive a refund for the inquiries you haven’t yet been given access to - but not for exercises that have already been made available in your course portal.
What does the coaching session in Option 2 include?
It’s a private 75-minute conversation with me on Zoom. But it isn’t a traditional coaching session. You book it after day 21, when you’ve already spent three weeks exploring the material for yourself. That means we don’t have to start from scratch. We can go straight to what you’re actually seeing, questioning or struggling with.