For me, self seems to reside in the head and heart, mainly the head.
This is more typical of what gets called "the witness", the sensations implying that someone/something is observing this experience as it plays out.
My self owns my body, and there's not much distance between the two, because I feel like I am my body also.
If your self owns the body, who owns the self?
Describe the "distance between the two".
On an intellectual level I can accept that the notion of self is created by thoughts, which is probably why I feel like I'm in my head.
The impression of there being a self isn't created by thought alone, it's a misreading of every single sensation which presents itself in awareness, from "my" thoughts to "my" fingers tapping out letters on a keyboard. Intellectually understanding this isn't enough to do the damage, this needs to be seen and experienced in real-time to being it to an end.
What style of thought creates self?
What style of self creates thought?
Surely only a certain types of thought?
Certainly?
Can neutral thoughts perpetuate the idea of self?
They do.