Have you ever noticed how much of our life we spend on autopilot?? For me, driving is a major autopilot time... I end up where I am going, and really have no idea how I got there... I am thinking about other things, not really paying attention... Well, I am paying attention, but only with my auto-pilot mode. My real thoughts are elsewhere, thinking about other things.
The other thing is this... I read somewhere that in any given day, 95% of our thoughts are repeat thoughts from the previous day or days. We have very few original thoughts. We think the same thing day after day... over and over again. We are wearing a significant trail in our synapses. Things happen and we automatically start thinking the same old thoughts... We have thought autopilot as well. It's easier for us sometimes... Just to think the same old, familiar thoughts... But we just stay in the same old place that we've always been...
When we drive a new route through town, we have to pay attention and be present. When we drive the route that we've known and driven for a long time... we use autopilot. The same with our thoughts. When we try a different thought route, we have to pay attention and be present... When we use the same old thought route, we can go on autopilot....
So what would a new thought route look like or sound like?? How do we get there?? Well, the first thing we need to do/be is aware... We need to be come aware of our thoughts. How do we know they are the same old thoughts from the previous days/weeks/months if we're not even aware of them? Once we are aware of them, then comes the momentous time of choice... Choosing to follow the worn out thought patterns... or choosing to think something new... something different... something that we haven't thought before... What a difference that might make...
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