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| 23 Jan 2008 03:21:15 pm |
 How the Brain Produces Thoughts and Feelings-Wow! |
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No one knows how thoughts and feelings are produced, well, that's not quite a true statement. We are certain that when the brain produces a thought, it also, at the same time produces a matching feeling to accompany the thought. Important fact:Thoughts and feelings are a package. Feelings don't prove the thought is the truth, the feeling(emotion) is just the emotion associated with that thought. Angry thoughts produce angry feelings.
That is the reason that our thoughts are so powerful and persuasive. The feeling component of the thought makes the thought feel real!, as it it were true.! However, nothing could be farther from the truth. The thought-feeling is not true, it just feels true! Its that brain neurotransmitter emotion type (anger, love, etc.) tclicking into the thought like a template hat makes the thought just feel real!
The neuroscientists have identified most of the emotional neurotransmitters and tell us that when that chemical hits a particular brain site, that particular emotion is felt and powerfully. How utterly strange and marvelous that all thoughts are randomly produced ! and are loaded with emotions that make them feel real. Its almost as if we are just little dummies ruled by a thought/neuro chemical phenomena. Wow! You mean all my thoughts are just randomly coming into my consciousness and then an emotion is added and I react as if it were true? Yes. No way Jose! Sorry folks, but that's the truth. You mean that I (whatever that is) is just a sucker for all the thought/feelings that pour into my Mind? Yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting. If you think I'm mistaken and that you actually think about what your going to think about, you will see that you very rarely do that! Ok, let's try it and see. OK, I want to think about my job. What happens? Thoughts about your job just start rumbling through! From where? No One Knows!! Thoughts just show up from someplace. What place? In my head someplace? That seems true. But do I actually "author" the thoughts, like I'm saying "I want my next thought to be...." You never do that! Admit it. So, is it possible for me to actually plan all the thoughts I'm going to have? No. What!! I know this sounds impossible, but your the one having the thoughts, where do you think they come from? Do you actually think you "are" your thoughts or are you just having them? Nice question isn't it? What is your answer to that question? See what I mean? Our thoughts just come out of nowhere!!
I want to explain in this little story of mine, the difference between the brain and the our Mind in terms of their separate function. It seems to me that my brain produces the thoughts and feelings and that information is "heard" by my Mind. Does that feel true? It does to me. One proof is that "you" hear every thought. If I hear the thought can I be the thought too? I don't think so. That does not feel true. It is also true that every thought comes one at a time and "you hear" everyone of them!
OK, the Mind can do several things with that thought-feeling. It can ignore it and do or say something else it would rather do or say, or we can just think those thought-feelings "are me" If we are not paying attention to this process, what happens is that we will respond as if I am that thought. Its as if we are acting like the thoughts-feelings represent "me', "I'. I believe that most people think the thoughts "are themselves.!" That is really nuts! I say nuts, because we dont know where thoughts come from they just show up produced randomly by the brain! I am not my brain, I have one! I am however, My Mind. There is a very huge and important difference!!
I hear thoughts, that much is true. However, I am not the thoughts, I just hear them.
As I was saying earlier, we can tell our brain, "thank you for sharing" when it produces a thought that is not true, frightening without merit, worrysome for no solid reason, etc. etc. We can pick and choose to follow and express the thoughts that serve us, not the ones that terrify or worry us. See the difference? Its the biggest difference in the whole world to us!!
If we don't aknowledge this difference, we will almost always believe the thoughts-feelings we have are real and they are not! A lot of them are pure nonsense! A lot of them scare the hell out of us!...and for nothing real!!! and this only happens if don't aknowledge that thoughts are just random things pouring constantly out of the brain into the Minds Field of choice..but only if we realize we have a choice!!
I am, speaking for myself, sick and tired of acting like a dumb manikin knee jerking the often stupidly fearsome things I hear the brain pour into my Mind. I no longer want to be the victim of the brains outpouring thoughts. I want to choose what I will act on and believe. I know I can and so do you. I know you are already doing that sometimes...for example when you hear the brain produce a thought you just know is nuts, you ignore it...you just dont ignore enough!!!
The brain is like a mad scrabble game producing all these random thoughts, it is rather mindless you know. One day I heard my brain tell me something that was just screwy and I yelled at my brain "Who said that!!!" and you know what? There was no answer!!! Thats right, try it yourself and see if there is any answer to anything the brain says-produces...Pretty wierd and enlightening I tell you!
I was just reading some science about the brain and this book said the brain produces about 60,000 thoughts a day and repeats about 95 percent of them every day! Of that number of thoughts about 80% are all negative.
If we look at our lives on a daily basis is there any wonder that so much of our day is "thought" to be negative???? How does it feel to know that you are about 80% negative every day and you are if you act on all those negative thoughts all day! Its no wonder that most of us are negative..what else could we be???
Are you not tired of getting all that bad advice??? The brain is delivering negative thoughts all day.."Dont do that, you could embarrass yourself" "Don't take a chance on asking for a raise you could get fired instead" "Don't ask that man or that woman out for a cup of coffee, he or she might say no and you would be humiliated" That's the kind of advise we get from our negative brain, it sure knows how to kill a possible great experience..it stiffles our lives....its just makes this existence a negative drag!
So, now you know what to do. You start really listening to the counsel your brain delivers and just start choosing to act on thoughts that enliven you, that give you a real sense of independence and aliveness. Start acting like you are the boss because you are!! That Mind of yours is oh so powerful and capable of having a terrific time in this life..
You must also know that the brain produces negative thoughts 80% of the time because it runs a very simple program, to have you survive and not fail. Thats all the brain knows and it does a great time running its survival program of negative thoughts..Its trying to save us!! Thats really a fine operation it runs IF we are depending on our Minds Program that is so much bigger! The Mind wants us to have a fantastic life! Its is full of wonder, love, affection, compassion, creativity, all the wonder experience we humans enjoy. Start practicing using that Mind of yours to create a life that is 80% positive, creative, full of fun and wonder!! Now there are two very fine programs running us, on the one hand there is the survival program of the brain with its negative save them thoughts and there is the Minds that wants to have us have a fabulous creative enjoyable life. Two great programs. Now you know. Now you know what to do!!
We must all develop a new mind muscle that really does focus on the content of the thought-feelings we get all day long. We can do it. We must do it if we want a really wonderful life. What do you say? Shall we go for it?? Hell yes I say!!!
Here are some valuable tips. If you hear a thought that scares you, ignore it. It is not true even though it feels true, its just brain bunk!! If you hear a thought that limits you, ignore it. Do the opposite and have a creative experience!! If the brain is producing worry thoughts. Ignore them. They are not true, they can't be!! They never are! If you are feeling humiliated, rejoice!!! you are going beyond fear and are out there in creations territory making a new way!! Here is one of my ambitions and I give it to you with love and great cheer. See if you can actually die of humiliation. I've tried so many times and never come close!! And I usuallly have a fantastic time when I really step out into the unknown. After all its all really unknown isnt it?? No one knows whats going to happen next but something will and I want to be in the middle of it with a smile on my lips and all my creative juices on line and ready for a new experience! After all, thats all we really have in this life is experience...we really don't have things, cars houses, wealth and stuff, but we sure as hell have experiences...thats for absolutely true!! So go have some!!
I will leave you with this thought...the brain also produces good thoughts too, only is much less quanity. Start planting thousands and thousands of new empowering thoughts into its memory bank!! You will hear these new thoughts in your new life! I really am so happy this new material popped into my brain to share with you...it is just so liberating and enlivning. Thanks for reading this and pass it on!! |
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Category : All of it is making me up
| Posted By : Stanley |  Comments[322] |  Trackbacks [0] |
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| 01 Jan 2008 02:38:17 am |
| The space within us |
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I have been reading some books that suggest that each of us is composed of the space within us and then all that occurs within that space. I find this idea very compelling, and in practicing the experience of holding my mentality as that space and its contents it feels true.
The first idea I read suggests that all of our emotions are just what occurs in the space of myself. What I mean by that is that I am aware that it actually mentally feels like there is a space inside me and that in that space my emotional contents are evoked and that there is actually a separation between what I feel is the space inside me, a quiet zone and then there are the emotions roaming around inside that space.
I began to experiment with myself to see if that was actually true and to my lovely surprise, it was! I was upset about something and then offered myself, my mind, to experience the upset as the contents of the space that I am....and it worked! It wasnt very long before the upset disappeared,not to reoccur for rehashing as has usually occured before.
Yesterday, I was driving along and it occured to me that all my thoughts are just things that occur in the space I am...that felt true too!!
This morning, I was just sitting there feeling really good with no notion why, when it occured to me that what was happening was just occuring spontaneously in the space that I am!
Later this morning as I was about to obsess about my future tasks, that I could just remain in the space I am and let those tasks just occur in the space I am in the future when their time comes up...that was a very very nice feeling, to know that is true....very nice indeed.
Does this mean that I am really starting to get it? That I can spend more time hanging out in the space that I am..and rest in it whenever itoccurs to me? That feels like it may be true....the days and nights ahead will tell the tale and I shall report the findings here...for you and for me.. |
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Category : All of it is making me up
| Posted By : Stanley | Comments[345] | Trackbacks [0] |
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