New Thinking?
“The problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Albert Einstein
Have you ever noticed your thinking? Have you ever noticed your thoughts? It is said that we are capable of thinking about 60,000 thoughts a day…and 50,000 are yesterday’s thoughts! So where do we get the first thoughts and how do we change our thoughts or rather get to a new level of thinking?
How our thoughts got into our head can be traced to anything, from our parents, reading, peers, television etc, etc….But how they got there is not as important as why we still have them there. Obviously we repeat our thoughts to ourselves over and over and over and over…everyday!
So can we really blame anyone but ourselves for holding any thought past the moment it transacted and registered through our brain?
It is amazing that when we expand our thinking, we experience things differently. You can talk all day about your feelings and it is important to vent them and process them, but I have noticed that when we can connect the thought to the feeling and explore, process, and even challenge the thought…it can really curtail feelings. And our welfare improves.
If I think that no one likes me and feel saddened by it, even get depressed by this thought, then the minute I challenge it and change it to “not everyone likes me and that’s okay, that is the way life is” and believe this, then I will not be as upset.
Let us pay attention to our thoughts, our thinking, often called “self-talk” and be brave enough to challenge it if it does not serve us well. After all new thinking helps solve and alleviate problems or situations. Old thinking may have created the problems or situations and will hold them in place as long as we do not arrive at new thinking. How about some NEW THINKING?
Maria Hilda Pinon, author of The Willows of Corona, a novel, and Candles in the Dark…poems to grieve, hope and love again.
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