So I decided not think so much this year

[ZenRaiden]

Essentially I realized I think a whole lot of nothing, so instead of thinking Ill just avoid thinking.
There is fine line between having brake fluid in ones head and actually useful good thoughts.
I am just going to fill my brain with useful thoughts, thoughts that I really like. Its not like thinking makes me smarter or anything.
Realistically I think thinking is just making me dumber on a whole.
Sure its nice entertainment, but it really is dead end for me.
So just positive thoughts, helpful thoughts and shit like that whatever.

The motto of the year is NO BRAIN NO PAIN.

 

[Puffy]

What are you doing that’s helping you achieve this goal?

 

[birdsnestfern]

Awesome. There is something very important about that, in that you need to have techniques that calm the thinking brain down, so you can listen to the calm. Absolutely. A little thinking, and then clear it as you can't be grinding thoughts all the time, its overwhelming.

Anita Moorjani has extra nice ways of easing in to this, she is on facebook, I love her posts:

Here is her most recent:

At the end of the day, it’s really this simple:

Love deeply

Laugh often

Shine your light without holding back
That’s the real purpose—to be the light you came here to be.

 

[ZenRaiden]

What are you doing that’s helping you achieve this goal?

Honestly just not paying much attention to my head, when it gets to active I ignore it or just stop thinking dead in tracks.

 

[ZenRaiden]

t be grinding thoughts all the time, its overwhelming.

Worst yet its dead end. Nothing comes useful of all the damn thinking ever.

 

[dr froyd]

i had an epiphany the other day. I was waking up from a nap, and at that moment, for whatever reason, my brain decided to completely flood me with negative thoughts. They just came rapid-fire, about all kinds of things.

"wtf is this" i thought. And then i realized: whatever this thing i call "I" is, "I" did not invite those thoughts. Maybe some primeval part of my brain got soaked in the wrong sort of neurotrasmitter at that moment, who knows. But the point is: one of *my* big responsibilities in life - "my" as in belonging to what i consider my conscious, rational self - is to control thoughts, discriminate among them, and re-frame them as needed

 

[scorpiomover]

I am just going to fill my brain with useful thoughts, thoughts that I really like.
So just positive thoughts, helpful thoughts and shit like that whatever.

Sounds useful. If it changes you for the better, which it sounds like it would, then that would make your life better. So good on you for that.

FYI, "useful thoughts" is often known as Wisdom. So you are seeking wisdom, which makes you wise, and a philosopher in the true sense.

The motto of the year is NO BRAIN NO PAIN.

What you think, is worthless, unless it changes what you do.
Brain + action = Smart changes.
Brain + no action = No change.
No brain + action = Stupid changes.
No brain + no action = No change.

So stick to thoughts that are useful, and you can do something about. Then you have to do something about it. Only when you do something to improve your life, will you see positive changes.

 

[fluffy]

I believe that negative thoughts happen because we do not know what to do and they are the default mode of how we handle or cope with this uncertainty.

I am inside my house and I would like to go places but I cannot for many reasons. So I sit here with nothing to do. This is not bad as I found out that all I need to do is absorb my environment as is. Eventually I will no longer feel overwhelmed and just be. This way I can have energy to move.

Being introvert I lose energy until I found all that is required is to have no tasks that need to be done externally. It is an adjustment because everything external requires attention that's draining. Yet if I make sure not to have anything important to do it's not draining.

When you have important things to do and you need to think all the time how not to mess up - that is the problem.

Finding things that are easier requires first observation of what's around you without that worrying. It is deconditioning oneself from being adverse to the outside environment.

 

[ZenRaiden]

FYI, "useful thoughts" is often known as Wisdom. So you are seeking wisdom, which makes you wise, and a philosopher in the true sense.

I think I want to just cut down thoughts, because the word useful loses meaning even if the thought would be useful if there is no way to bring it to life. That said thoughts are kind of one thing, but one needs to sometimes KNOW vs just think too. IF you know what I mean.

What you think, is worthless, unless it changes what you do.
Brain + action = Smart changes.
Brain + no action = No change.
No brain + action = Stupid changes.
No brain + no action = No change.

Right, exactly, although I would argue that its even better to say NO action is form of action sometimes. It helps to reframe compulsions to be less dominant.

So stick to thoughts that are useful, and you can do something about. Then you have to do something about it. Only when you do something to improve your life, will you see positive changes.

I often struggle with this. Despite the intellect says action leads to change, my mind feels like action leads to just no change, or even trouble. That might stem from previous interpretation of events. Its more emotional problem I think tho.

 

[ZenRaiden]

I believe that negative thoughts happen because we do not know what to do and they are the default mode of how we handle or cope with this uncertainty.

Well they are default if you set them as default. They certainly don't have to be default.

When you have important things to do and you need to think all the time how not to mess up - that is the problem.

I think this is a sort of anxiety, Or can rise to level of anxiety. Realistically the point is that if you worry too much you will get mentally exhausted, and when you actually start doing things you will have less energy to mentally focus despite not doing anything, but just worrying. I have this problem too. My brain can worry about everything and yet it requires zero worries, but telling my brain not to worry is like telling a angry person not to be angry.

 

[ZenRaiden]

i had an epiphany the other day. I was waking up from a nap, and at that moment, for whatever reason, my brain decided to completely flood me with negative thoughts. They just came rapid-fire, about all kinds of things.

"wtf is this" i thought. And then i realized: whatever this thing i call "I" is, "I" did not invite those thoughts. Maybe some primeval part of my brain got soaked in the wrong sort of neurotrasmitter at that moment, who knows. But the point is: one of *my* big responsibilities in life - "my" as in belonging to what i consider my conscious, rational self - is to control thoughts, discriminate among them, and re-frame them as needed

Yes, but your conscious mind is like a tiny human and your unconscious is like a huge dune worm.
You can sort of control your way of dealing with unconscious but so many things happen in your unconscious that your conscious is basically just riding this huge beast of animal that can get lightly controlled going left and right. Of course the issue is when you wake up and have worries this can be pretty realistic sign of pressure you put on yourself. Or else where would this comes from.

 

[fluffy]

I can see where emotions might be where this issue comes from for me.

I have been trying to maintain composure with life in general but I have this pain I don't know what to do with.

If I tell people in my life my problems they are not receptive. So all I can do is be careful and calm on the outside yet externally frustrated on the inside.

It seems like nothing I do can make these problems go away because other people don't care. It takes all my effort to not do anything about it.

Perhaps this is to do with needing help in childhood but then it's harder to have no emotions expressed twords real things in life causing me an themselves harm they will no let themselves see. Stupid stuff that you can fix with a dollar rather than spend years of money that won't matter in a few months.

 

[dr froyd]

we must learn how to control the dune worm

or at least hope it is possible

 

[ZenRaiden]

we must learn how to control the dune worm

or at least hope it is possible

You are both the worm and the rider. They must be one.