The most important thing in this lifetime you seem to be in is mind-watching! This is the most important thing you can do. To the ego, this will seem to be a strange priority. The ego says, but there are so many more productive, valuable ways to use my time and energy!
If you think about all of the things you put your investment into, you might see that you have been pursuing things in the world. The ego is used to setting goals that will be achieved in the future. What if, instead, your only goal was present peace? What if you decided that mind training was the most valuable way to spend your time?
Practice watching your mind. The thoughts you think you think and the world you think you see are absolutely identical. When you do the Workbook lessons in A Course in Miracles, Jesus shows you through mind training that the only real thoughts you have are the ones you think with God.
Those thoughts are often covered over by attack thoughts, grievances, and judgments. There is a core of real thoughts below those and when we go inward, we find them. The escape from illusions is to recognize: “the only real thoughts in my mind are the thoughts I think with God.” This is where non-attachment comes in.
Dis-identify with judgmental thoughts and grievances. When you dissociate from those thoughts, you can see that you are not those thoughts. You are not a stream of guilt thoughts! Your identity is pure innocence.