OK, so here is a simple example of the current practice.
Kuma, our dog, likes to bark. He was on the back porch yesterday during the day while classes were going on. He barked and barked and barked when people arrived for class and barked and barked and barked at the things that make him bark during class. A thought crossed my mind "When Duane comes home, I'm going to tell him that Kuma was a bad puppy all day."
Had the thought been voiced, I would have been both negative and untruthful.
The truth was that Kuma made sounds (barking). My aversion to "improper decorum" when guests are under my care prompted a negative response in my mind; I got irritated with Kuma. He wasn't "bad". I was irritated, so I projected that on to him.
Fortunately, I noticed this the moment the thought arose and I was able to trace it back to the causal factors in my mind. I rearranged my mind to view the situation truthfully and then I wasn't irritated anymore and I didn't even mention it to Duane.
Simple, relatively meaningless example, but this is the process of retraining my mind.
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