“Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear!” That’s a quote from Empire Records, a movie that came out over 2 decades ago (omg). It stuck with me as a teenager, when my boarding school friends and I would watch it over and over again. We still quote the line to each other in our various Facebook activities. It’s come up a lot in my meditation studies because the practice of meditation is basically side-eyeing your thoughts into oblivion.In this seated meditation, you’ll learn how to label your thoughts.Thoughts are either the pastmemoriesemotionsregretsmoments you’d like to experience againattempts to understand the meaning behind things that happenedor the futuregoalsto-dos fearsmoments you wish you could experience nowattempts to find to security in a plan of what’s going to happenLabel your thoughts.Let them float on.Until there are no more thoughts that come from the outside: the past, the future.Then you can find peace in sitting still with only your intuition for company.