The average person has more then six thousand thoughts per day. How many of those thoughts are golden opportunities for success and change?
It is simple for us to focus all of our attention on destructive thoughts which have zero utility in helping us grow as individuals. However, it is exceedingly more difficult for us to wade through the foreboding waters of our minds to find precious gems underneath the surface. Just because we cannot see it doesn’t mean it is not there.
I’d like to propose a valuable solution to free ourselves from the likelihood of getting lost in destructive thought forms.
Record, organize, and categorize our thoughts through the use of personal journals – keeping record of our state of mind on any given day. Like in meditation, where you can focus on your current thoughts and see how crazy “you” are, in a personal journal you can find patterns, themes of thought forms that have things in common with one another. Then you can put those thought forms to the test – see if they are valid. We tend to think things that have very little evidence to support their truth.
Along with a filling system for information learned, consider:
- Folders stored on your computer of interesting people: writers, researchers, scientist, philosophers giving you a broad range of perspectives on their teachings and insights;
- books and other media;
- Subjects to study – psychology, philosophy, sociology and so on (whatever your interests are);
- Original ideas and concepts – personal things thought up which could have personal value in your development.
We are not supposed to remember everything we give attention towards. Our minds should only store the priorities, in this overwhelming information age especially.
Regularly doing some housekeeping in our minds, putting the books back in the shelf, rearranging the furniture and bringing in new items into our home when the old ones no longer serve their purpose – keeping ourselves up to date and fresh should be a routine.
You have a device in your home that has access to an infinite amount of information – a computer. That gives you the ability to not only learn new things but learn new things from multiple angles. We had limits with what we learned and how deep we could specialize within any given school of thought, giving ourselves access to only a few versions of what was considered to be the truth.
There is no longer a gatekeeper between you and secrets of the Universe. Technology has given us the ability to cut out the middleman. We only need to learn how to use it effectively, so we can better access what we decide to look for to grow ourselves in the direction we choose.
