1. Learn how to perfect your skills of observation. Quiet your busy, dizzy mind and watch carefully. When thoughts come quickly bring your attention back to simply observing, learning from your experiences.
The average person receives around 70,000 thoughts a day. Which ones do you listen to and follow and which ones do you ignore? It is a very difficult.
Your mind is just like a computer storage device which records everything you experience: see, touch, sense, hear, smell and taste. The mind records it all. You access the stored information in the computer as you need it, but the mind differently continually sends back data to you as thoughts during the day. The challenge is to know what information is useful to you and what is just pure nonsense.
Your mind is just like a computer storage device which records everything you experience: see, touch, sense, hear, smell and taste. The mind records it all. You access the stored information in the computer as you need it, but the mind differently continually sends back data to you as thoughts during the day. The challenge is to know what information is useful to you and what is just pure nonsense.
When you observe more carefully, you can reduce the number of thoughts and you will know which ones to use and which ones to ignore. In fact, the best thoughts are inspirational ones that come to you from outside of your mind.
You want to become the master of the mind not the slave.
You want to become the master of the mind not the slave.
My son and I are putting together a computer he got for Christmas, so this analogy is fitting. Taken a back by the number of thoughts we have each and every day - 70,000 is a lot. Good reason to meditate daily.
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