Thinking is dangerous

Really understand this, especially when in the midst of challenging times, and you can return to peace as if you never entertained the thought in the first place. If we can know the cause, who’s to blame and what needs to be done about it, we’ll be okay. "– Doug StanhopeWe simply want relief through thinking, through our calculations, projections, by thinking as if there can be flawless choices.This article speaks to many aspects of me. We experience ourselves as a distinct self when we’re thinking about a problem. Mental health at its best is showing our love and clinging to one another outside time\space creating stability and less permeability to influence. Is there proper research to support this generalization? Then you can really own the concept that it is your thinking which creates all of your misery, because you can witness and know, at once, that this statement is Truth.I am going to close with identical ideas from two different sources:Thinking is dangerous, friend. You can simply say, “Stop it” to your out-of-control brain and once you have practiced this, sufficiently, your mind will have no choice but to comply. It is hard to believe that such phenomena could be so hardwired and not be to be honest. I don't bring it back and it doesn't keep me up at night.

By the time you are interpreting what you have just witnessed, the event you are reacting to is in the past. Are You Sure Your Partner Really Wants What’s Best for You? How can something that merely goes on inside your head be dangerous. Designers need to be cautious about falling into the bandwagon bias trap but also be aware of how it can be exploited in their designs to improve user experiences and get users to make the decisions the designer wants them to make.. We, human beings, are social creatures. Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon in which everyone in a group goes along with a decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints. I am not saying your wrong, but your claim requires incredible evidence to substantiate which has not been shown by cognitive theorists. Really understand this, especially when in the midst of challenging times, and you can return to peace as if you never entertained the thought in the first place. If we can just understand our pain more clearly, spend more time with it, we’ll be able to figure it out—in other words, make it go away. So, too, we counterintuitively cling to suffering as a way of taking care of ourselves. I can bring thoughts about it back if I need to talk to someone about their own circumstances, but I don't just bring the negativity back. Then it must be useful. There IS a sense of empowerment in the HERE AND now. Let go of every other thought. The desire for harmony or conformity is so strong that no one dares say no. Podcast: Download. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. As the Buddhist saying goes, we want We return to our suffering, because fundamentally we’re trying to make the negative experience come out a different way. Pod Delusion - Episode 203 - UK, Syria and Chemicals. It’s sad when kids kill themselves ’cause they didn’t really give it a chance, but life is like a movie: if you’ve sat through more than half of it and it sucked every second so far, it probably isn’t gonna get great right at the very end for you and make it all worthwhile. The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. Failure is a great teacher here.In the process, you will discover that you can be entirely well and happy at this moment without having to go back and make anything that came before it different. How Nootropics Boost Mental Clarity and Focus Why should I bring the pain and fear back when I can live in the now and focus on what's coming?Get the help you need from a therapist near you–a FREE service from Psychology Today.

More Proof That “Sound Mind, Sound Body” Is Timeless Wisdom It cannot be fully present because it is always behind whatever has just happened. Over and over again, the mind restructures and reframes the contents of our pain in an effort to avoid directly feeling it. What would happen if we stopped remembering and reestablishing who we are all the time? At an existential level, returning to our suffering allows us to feel a primal sense of I-ness, to feel that we exist. The so called analytical hypothesis is that rumination and even depression are adaptive states and modern psychology simply denies this. General the Lord Dannatt said it came as no surprise that “there are some people who think we could do without an armoured warfare capability, but that is dangerous thinking”.