Do you find yourself sometimes thinking persistently about some issue or problem (e.g. whether you should ask the boss for a work assistant)? Thinking helps us adjust to constantly changing demands. It should help us solve issues that we encounter in daily life. You recognize an imbalance (need vs. availability) and think how to achieve the desired outcome. However, if your thinking gets stuck and you find yourself going nowhere with the thinking then this should raise a red flag. Maybe you do not have all the necessary information in order to make any decision regarding a particular issue at this time. Or it can be that the content of the thoughts is emotionally intense and therefor it can be better if you talk about it to your brother or a friend.
Be alert against repetitive thinking (ruminations). They can literally rob you of life energy. Have you noticed ever that after spending sometime focusing and thinking on a certain issue without resolution, that you get tired. We are created by God in order to produce and do good, one good doing after the other: to make it steady where we live, ask mom how she is doing on the phone, read a story to your 3 years old child etc.. Standing still (mentally or physically) at a certain issue is not healthy. It is not the way it should be. Pay attention to this and see if you can make something to change this tendency. And rememberer, that often the same problem looks differently after disengaging, doing something totally different and reconsidering it again. Look at the cube below (called necker's cube):
You can perceive two different boxes in the image above (face to the upper right or face to the bottom left). Pay attention to the fact that you need a slight disengagement in order to perceive the other box.
The matter of fact is that even if you disengage from thinking about a specific problem, your unconscious mind keeps working on it. You leave town and go to a walk in the forest, your mind silently and without you being aware of it keeps considering the issue. You walk and enjoy that which God has blessed us with. Your higher intellectual faculties are not occupied by that problem i.e. the normal thought constraints are not active. This makes it more likely for your unconscious mind to arrive at the optimal solution.
It is quite remarkable that our mind works on life hassles without our awareness. A thing which is similar to our digestive system extracting the good nutrients in food even though we know nothing about the chemistry involved, we are totally unaware! That is, if we are not having any stomach trouble! Is not it remarkable that for most of us our bodies are working as they should? No pain is perceived. Nothing of that can happen without the will and mercy of God. Praised be Him.
I have enjoyed making the final review of this post. I hope that it would prove beneficial for some of you. I am going to say more about this topic in future posts. I wish you all the best and I will happily read your comments and thoughts.
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