This starts top right, as a person begins meditation. Soon thoughts and feelings arise and break concentration. These are mundane thoughts, for example something that was on TV or a minor worry. But usually each of these thoughts would become a thought-CHAIN because you give each one energy and allow it progress into another.
However, because you're meditating, you don't do that. You merely observe each thought, without pushing or pulling; just allowing, and allow it to fade (it will; it's impermanent like everything else).
Dropping down in the diagram, a little concentration is established, and in the peace of the mind, without the usual pushing resistance or mental noise, all the repressed thoughts, secret agendas, forgotten hurts and future fears arise from deep in the mind. Again, allowing not pushing, each one comes and goes according to it's impermanent nature. Finally, there's some peace in the mind.
As you take reign of the mind, you can choose what to give energy to, such as following the precepts and making life simpler, rather that just letting the mind do all it can to weave a story around the pain it's hiding.
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