Creative thinking, Positive thoughts, Productivity, Peace: How can we achieve any of these when our internal bandwidths are all hogged by the multiple threads of conversations? The conversations I am talking about are all internal; the noise between our ears.
We are always talking to ourselves: Finding reasons, meaning making, debating, reconfirming our points of view, planning, scheming and not the least passing judgments on others. But this is what we are 'designed' to do.
Not only do these internal dialogues waste our precious bandwidths but also push the foreground (current) dialogue to the highest priority for processing. Unfortunately, most of the time, this foreground dialogue should not have been in the foreground; this power processing space could have been utilized for more creative thoughts.
External (work) pressures enable a change of dialogue priority. A trauma can temporarily kill all of the conversation threads, but not for long.
What we really need to understand is that all these threads of conversation are based on unresolved internal conflicts. Resolution for these conflicts allows one to take a stand instead of vacillating between the extreme poles. These vacillations are the cause of the tempest within the ocean in the head, the mind. Once the mind is still & clear, one sees.
But how do we resolve these internal conflicts?
We are always talking to ourselves: Finding reasons, meaning making, debating, reconfirming our points of view, planning, scheming and not the least passing judgments on others. But this is what we are 'designed' to do.
Not only do these internal dialogues waste our precious bandwidths but also push the foreground (current) dialogue to the highest priority for processing. Unfortunately, most of the time, this foreground dialogue should not have been in the foreground; this power processing space could have been utilized for more creative thoughts.
External (work) pressures enable a change of dialogue priority. A trauma can temporarily kill all of the conversation threads, but not for long.
What we really need to understand is that all these threads of conversation are based on unresolved internal conflicts. Resolution for these conflicts allows one to take a stand instead of vacillating between the extreme poles. These vacillations are the cause of the tempest within the ocean in the head, the mind. Once the mind is still & clear, one sees.
But how do we resolve these internal conflicts?
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