THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | December 7 2023 No. 838

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

Pre-occupied, pre-judiced, pre-set, pre-programmed, pre-cooked, pre-present - how our thoughts pre-empt our lives!

 

And they do that in two apparently very distinct ways: we react to the present based on learning from the past and we "what if" and worry about the future as our thoughts race ahead and take us ahead of ourselves. But the distinction between thinking about the past and thinking about the future is only apparent. And appearances can be deceptive!

 

Our thoughts, past and future are all past! Nothing new happens in the normally-minded individual's brain after the age of 12 or 13. Everything is a replay, based on our formative learning's pre-sets. So, for starters, when our minds take us off on a train of thought into the future, we're actually going back into the past!

And, when we judged what's happening in the present, when we judge ourselves in the present (a subconscious obsession) we're simply, as always, using our pre-programmed way of thinking. We're always pre-judging, we are prejudiced.

 

The biggest downside to this is that we are severely prejudiced against ourselves. Our prejudice is not just an impediment to being at our best, it impedes us from being at all.

 

Is there are upside to all this? Yes - and it's awfully exciting because none of the aforementioned is real. It's an illusion based on how our minds are pre-occupied. And, as you'll know, having watched this week's video, we don't have to evict that squatter from our mind, they go away when we stop feeding them.