In your pursuit of Enlightenment, it is highly beneficial that you develop this most important skill.
"The Ability to Identify Your Own Cravings through Analysis of The Mind” then developing a plan to eliminate the cravings, desires, and attachments.
The Path leading to the elimination of discontentedness and the suffering it causes involves the “elimination of cravings, desires, and attachments”. But, if you do not know how to identify a craving, desire, or attachment, how could you ever eliminate them?
Because we cause our own discontentedness through cravings, we need to eliminate our mental cravings, desires, and attachments if we are to eliminate 100% of all discontentedness from the mind.
First, you need to know what a craving/desire/attachment is:
A craving/desire/attachment/wants/expectations/grasping/holding/clinging: a mental longing for something with a strong eagerness. The mind pulling in a direction for objects of its affection.
Second, you need to know how to identify your own cravings through analysis of the mind so that you can develop a plan to eliminate them. You need to train the mind to identify cravings and eliminate them all. There is no such thing as a “good” or “wholesome” craving.
To attain Enlightenment, a Practitioner will need to eliminate 100% of all cravings.
To identify cravings, you should use discontentedness as the “red light” on the dashboard helping a Practitioner observe that the mind is shaken up, unsteady, unstable, or uncalm. When the mind is discontent, it is uncalm and needs to be trained. Each time discontentedness arises, such as, any of these feelings, the Practitioner needs to take active steps to identify the cravings that led to the discontentedness and eliminate those cravings.