To think you are going insane, is to be lucid. Therefore, I am lucid as these thoughts flow from my pre-frontal cortex. I do often wonder how to stop thinking about something. The very act of forced forgetting is in fact focusing on the issue. I have found that misdirection is the most effective tool once the process has begun. Still, though, there are times I can not stop the process. The loss of a child, for example, is said to be the most painful emotional experience. There is a time of grieving and general sadness. A some point you must allow these painful thoughts to remove themselves from your life or they will will control you. So how do you force out the thoughts that hurt you?
My own thoughts sometimes violate me. They violently break into my sanity and trespass over my contentment. As if faced with an intruder, I fight back with little success. The struggle is epic. How is it that I can be bullied by my own thoughts? The answer is not clear, but i have enough intuition to make a hypothesis. Guilt, uncertain decisions and past transgressions are the usual suspects. There is no "do over" button in life. You really can't fight these thoughts. the sub-conscious is telling your consciousness that you have not fully addressed these issues. The real solution is to allow the intruder into your daily complacency. Shake his hand, offer him a drink and ask him what he wants. You aren't getting rid of him until he has what he came for. Now is the time to deal with it. That is all, nothing more.
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