Thinking: Upgrade Your Default Settings II

As we go through life, we accumulate experiences. Some of those experiences pass straight through our awareness, deemed as inconsequential or having consequence that could be adequately processed at the time.

Some experiences remain with us, usually because we have not processed the emotion associated with the experience. This is a basic definition of trauma, but it also applies to good experiences.

The sum of those emotional experiences that remain unprocessed within us form great swathes of our personality, which appear as protection mechanisms around that pain (or joy that we are clinging on to for dear life). They also contribute to our ego and blind spots.

Curiously, the deeper one gets along the path of liberating the emotion of these past experiences to become fully present with life’s current adventure, the less frantic and voluminous those random thoughts become.

Even more consequentially, the less pull there is to be absorbed into thinking and the easier it gets to recognise that a thought stem has begun and decide if it’s worth pursuing or not (Thinking).

This frees up so much energy.

Instead of trying to keep everything from getting triggered by life and being endlessly lost in random thought loops generated largely by past pain;

we could wake up and address the day as it presents itself to us, choosing which thoughts are worthy of pursuit.