You are your thoughts cause every thought is an unwritten command to the over 100 billion neurons in our body and our neurons controll every cell in our body Our thoughts determine how we feel and our actions
I am born 1977 and I remember how in western countries in the 90s, when I was studying psychology, only hippies who visited India believed that mediation can heal problems with the mind... The knowledge was out there since 4000-10000 years but not taken seriously anymore. Since we the can literally prove it with western fMRI scans, we say "Wooooow look at this!!" , as only one example, "look how the amygdala changes the size with practicing mediation" and suddenly borderline is treatable with mindfulness in psychology and Cognitive Behavior Therapy won over psychoanalysis, 😂 And as usual, they forget to mention that this vedic knowledge is older then Buddhism, people forget that vedic science is older then Buddhism, it's vedic science and buddism is a very successful export hit.. and many hundred years ago, the mugal empire had its fair share of destroying this vedic knowledge in India. Read old vedas and humble the west with thousands of years old knowledge ❤
With some practice - once you acknowledge that random thoughts are constantly and spontaneously coming into your conscience - you can also start to ignore and swipe past them almost literally like CZcams shorts. Helpful for breaking thought loops 👌🏼
It’s your first thought is your reflex character; how you learned to think by the people who brought you up, especially between about age 18 months to maybe 8 or 9 years old. Your second thought is how you’ve grown to perceive the world more individualistically through your own experiences. Both are you, both are how you think. But one is a learned behaviour/thinking engrained in you by observing others and being instructed by others, the other is the behaviour/thinking you have been conditioned into by how what you’ve experienced in your own time and what you’ve come to believe after reflecting on your experiences.
Yes and a third thought could be the total sum of all other people's viewpoints on the same matter with myself just being one viewpoint - the most conscious thought
Yup. A book that I never finished yet is called think fast and slow and breaks down how we essentially have two centers of thinking: system 1 and system 2. There’s a system that controls how fast we react instantly to something then there’s our rational system that slows down and rationalizes everything. We need to use this system more often but instead we default to our lazy, programmed mode of thinking.
This was taught to me by my therapist as I was working through recovering from trauma. It helped me replace ruminating about the events that harmed me to thinking about making salad - and get my PTSD stress response under control.
Thank you! So that's basically the diversion tactic, isnt it? I'm still learning how to effortlessly change my thoughts as now Im getting better at recognising the intrusive/unwanted thoughts. Now the work is indeed to change them, but I dont know how without consciously introducing a new thought. It's tiring. It's like battling 100 thoughts an hour so I've got to introduce other 100 new thoughts (e.g. from: I can't do that, that's difficult to that's a new interesting thing to try out)
I once turned off my spontaneous thoughts completely. In an ice bath for an hour in meditation. The thoughts didn't start again for a few hours. It was brilliant . Only managed it once. Meditation helps turn off the spontaneous thoughts.
When I spontaneously think a negative thought when I’m stressed, I then follow that thought with rational thinking and curiosity to come to a better understanding rather than just accepting that instant negative thought.
Since I talk to myself a lot I have learned to answer negative thoughts with positive insertions. They don't even have to be true they just have to make me feel better. That's what a best friend would do. 🤗
I'm going on walks every day and inserting positive thoughts to override the negative ones. I've noticed it stops me from replaying emotions from triggers since my focus is directed elsewhere.
It works! I noticed that I did this subconsciously and whenever I thought about something my brain automatically thought of the thing that I wanted associated with that specific thought and instantly dropped it altogether.
No, if anything it's a tragic storyline... could be a superpower? but not really, you're just stuck in a shetty situation or substance that's quite beneficial in some ways but is very burdensome and quite working against your own betterment and development
@@maynx2743 I'm a realist with a bit of optimism. After all, deluding yourself will bite you back later--it's not okay to be bullied and treated badly because of your condition but it's also not okay to revel in what's holding you back (a very easy excuse to not give more due effort), since it would breed resentment and my personal experience among other's, it's a very destructive complex emotion (my imagery of it would be groups of wild dogs, flooding in and brutally tearing someone apart, especially your target of resentment)
@@jdillon523If you have a thought you don’t believe or don’t like, just say no or I don’t believe it. Say it mentally or even verbally if you’re alone and feel like it. Reject unwanted thoughts, just like you would reject an offer from someone else.
@@Alex722great solution. I also find it helpful to attach a positive/helpful thought to the negative ones I'd like to block out. Our brains literally work on algorithms, so the negative thoughts always revolve around the same issues and themes. By training yourself to redirect those same negative thoughts to positive and empowering ones you are literally changing your automatic responses over time.
Since the reality of human beings is his thoughts, coupled with the interaction between thinking and conduct... we all can really transform our inner and outer lives! Gratitude, humbleness, detachment, an open attitude for learning, kindness, and everything positive based in values, makes our minds, hearts, souls and lives shine, for us and for others!
I have a constant internal monologue/conversation in my head going on most of the day except when involved in intense activities. Its very hard, no it feels almost impossible to distinguish between a "spontaneous thought" and a "deliberate thought." I just go back and forth between positive and negative thoughts constantly. Especially when trying to exercise willpower to either resist an urge or to do something. I can go back and forth for so long and stay in that limbo phase. I guess that viewing my positive thoughts as deliberate, and negative thoughts as spontaneous can help to swing the odds in favor of doing the good thing instead of giving into temptation.
@@naturalconcretion Actually, it's that last year I felt the urge to delete my CZcams channel as I wasn't content with the videos. And now one year after having deleted it, I think about how great it would be to read the comments of this one video I produced again. No matter how severe that problem is. Having to think about it every ten seconds for many time episodes bothers me when I experience the current moment.
@@namerino1337 Ok, I understand. Maybe this will help. You made a mistake and you are feeling regret and its making you feel bad. But mistakes are part of our life and we cant control them. Make peace with what you cant control, and forgive yourself for past and future mistakes. You have to practice this line of thinking. Whenver you get that bad thought and feeling, try to reframe it: "I cant control it, there is no point regretting the past, its done, im letting go and forgiving myself". Internalize this line of thinking. This is important because there is literally no reason to feel anything negative since it will do ZERO, only hurt you. The mind has a tendency to focus on the negatives so we have to retrain constantly to focus on the positives. This has to be done regularly, like practice. Its not enough to just hear it once, you need to remind yourself whenever that negative thought comes, and eventually it will stop.
This is brilliant. I've heard this concept in psychology as well. However, it has never been framed quite this way. I love these consise educational and actionable videos. And I'm nerd enough to love the technical neuro science as well.
Absolutely, teaching is an art. I've taken classes by PhD's that are so hard to follow. They can't break it down for the uninitiated. Good teaching is an art.
For years I would stop an unfortunate thought by shouting "Get thee behind me!" Recently I realized that the 75-year backlog behind me had circled the globe and was now visible from the front.
Though I love to keep writing for my books, my blog, and my articles, it is hard work. It has me inexorably in its clutches. It is an addiction, but truly one that is beneficial.
And When You Realize Your Thoughts get delivered outside Your Throat as If You've Spoken it...Shows How Powerful thought. It Actually Resonates out side of Us Definitely best to be Pronoia Blessings Professor 😊
People say "change your thought" as if it's an easy thing to do. I know that to achieve success I need to change some thoughts, and neurons that fire together wire together. Yea I know. But it takes practice indeed. For a person with anxiety tendency where their thoughts tend to run unchecked in the background, you've got to ACTIVELY battle them by introducing new thoughts, or challenging the thoughts like in Stoicism. But it's an ACTIVE work. It's like building muscles, at first it requires a lot of energy.
I don't know your circumstances, so i don't know what you're struggling with. But I'd like to offer something that may help you as it did me, take it or leave it. Freedom comes with the realization that your thoughts are not important. You don't decide to have them, they simply arise, so why do you need to own them, and feel responsible for them? You can choose to place your focus there, or simply let them go. The thought may still have you feeling bad, but there is relief and freedom in knowing you dont need to do anything to fix it or fight it, but to simply move on from it. It's not yours to deal with.
You CAN CONTROL AND DIRECT YOUR THOUGHTS! Absolutely.! You can direct your thoughts in a certain manner! ABSOLUTELY absolutely POSSIBLE! As a designer who needed to sit down and create an enormous amount of designs for certain things you sit down you channel your thoughts you take materials that you need you revise you read articles to get into that field of thought you train your thoughts to get into that direction… And when you get there, you’ll become very productive. You do things that you actually like product designs that are phenomenally good and it’s just I mean I can’t. I can’t even emphasize the benefits. You CAN CONTROL AND DIRECT YOUR THOUGHTS! Absolutely.!
Try to be in the present moment..listen to every minute thing around you... It will be difficult in the beginning..but as you progress it will eventually become under control and its very effective
My trick I noticed I need a topic in order to think a train of thought down that path so I just make sure I'm choosing topics that I don't have negative associations with in times I don't want to think negatively
I didn’t know there was a term for this but I started retraining my brain by activating becoming aware of a thought and the negative ones I would replace with 2 positive thoughts. It took a lot of repetition but now it’s second nature and my life looks very different today because of this one skill.
It was introduced to me by a friend from math studies - Grzegorz. He would remind himself of math problems while in public transportation and work on them mentally.
It IS possible to stop thinking a particular thought, through a process called mental displacement: You can't think two thoughts at once, so focus your attention AND YOUR EMOTIONS on thinking /feeling something else- and in doing so you can force (displace) the other thought out of your active thinking. I've been doing it for years so I KNOW IT WORKS! 😅
He makes it sound like no one has ever had a thought on purpose before and this is some big revelation. Anything you think about other than the present (ie reacting) is thinking
We cant control thoughts. But we can control thinking. Thinking is consciousness thinking about thoughts from the subconscious. Let the thoughts flow through your head without thinking. Thats meditation. Thats peace within the mind
Internet shorts are good for that. If I start thinking too much on something, and anxiety kicks in, I'll put on shorts. It introduced a new thought, to distract me, then, as soon as u start thinking too much about that thought, a new short pops up, & introduces a new thought, before I have time to get upset or overthink the 1st. And so on....
I should have been a neuroscientist because I feel like I’ve known it all before… it’s amazing to feel like I’ve known this all along! I’ve struggled with many things and my goal is to figure out why I am the way I think and feel When you’ve been told you’re too sensitive you’re entire life it’s the best way to begin hating yourself. When you realize their is an actual chemical flowing through your brain that is the cause, first this I did was begin to study the brain. Best thing I ever did but I’m still struggling with addiction regardless of substance or food or sex the word is the state I am desperately trying to diminish, at the same time understanding it for myself as well as give whoever the simplest explanation without my tears finishing testosterone!! Lol Thank you for sharing everything that is so important for the human race to understand! I need this and want to be in the middle of any experiment you are doing
A lot of things you jot down while thinking or speaking is a waste of time , therefore not speaking while you’re thinking is valuable enough to write it down
Precisely. What you are doing isn't putting one thought on top of another... You are redirecting a thought in a new direction. Creating a new neuro pathway in your brain. It is hard at first... But... like a trail in the woods gets worn with travel, so does a new pathway in our brain. There is a multitude of things I don't even struggle with anymore... Because I finally succeeded in creating an entirely new pathway. 👍 Oh... And I also happen to believe some thoughts in our head aren't always necessarily "our own". When people expose their consciousness to a high traffic sight like Instagram or Twitter they are opening themselves to hundreds of thousands of "thoughts" other than their own. #dirtylittlesecretnumbereight
As someone who stutters, almost all of us write what we are going to attempt to say before say it in our heads. My question is, does anyone know how to not think about it? As it's thinking about it which causes us to stutter
As someone with maladaptive daydreaming that is the most easy thing for me😅 because i fking daydream for hours a day and I'm addicted to it so far i have successfully go without it 3days and in the last night of the 3rd i fell back to it very fast and hard because i has totally only present in the moment for 3 days so had felt all this sensations of the outside very much because i has present. And when i daydreamed it felt so good so real so powerful that i quickly fell hard back to it😂😂😂 that was the last time that a tried to go without it. Sometimes i do it without even nothicing. Like i think I'm normal (in present )but at the same time imagining in my head stuff. But my fantasies...fantasies last for hours everyday. Today i think of course i did the subconscious one very much but that while i did other things so it has a more relief day but I'm addicted more then the internet to it like i cannot stop but the problem is that it feels so so good that i also to a deep level don't want to stop!! It just Feels so good the before day tho the time that i spent in my fantasies doing nothing it was i think kinda 6 hours and i do that a lot sometimes even more hours. Just imagining.But it is the most of the day that I'm consciously or subconsciously doing it i believe except if it is a very busy day. Or a try not to day. It is a bit mess up i mean i am very weird to my head now that i finally noticed that i have it after years of having it.😅 Especially lets say sometimes when i evolve real life people to my movies and am like wtf😂😂 after i noticed especially now that i am aware of it.
I get it I think! I have to get out of my head and find relief for overthinking. If you are not bothered by your day-fantasizing you would not have commented. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer has helped me and enlightened me. We (humans) strive to be better selves. Btw With God all is possible 🙏
Have you ever noticed that it is easy to just think random thoughts but if you try to purposely remember something that is not coming to you, that all your thoughts may stop? I’m a writer and don’t like to deny my thoughts, but I also don’t want to forget what I have already thought, esp. if had action associated with it like to find something.😢 It just proves that what you think is not always hard, and does not mean ‘someone is home’, but the way you control it or use it to your benefit…. Is what matters? If you can steer it to your benefit, that is what shows ‘someone is home’. To control your thoughts, like being in touch with reality is important in not lying to yourself, like to also find something. Basic water and vegan nutrients are best to carry you into old age with a clear mind and conscience.
On a certain level, we have spontaneous thoughts in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
The notion (not expressed in the video, but in plenty of comments) that one should preferably only think positive thoughts and extinguish all negative ones is naive and absurd. There's no inherent value in "thinking positive". Your negative thoughts are kind of like your alarm system. They alert you to whatever may be going wrong in your life, in your relations etc. While some of them may be false alarms, you shouldn't try to switch off your alarm system completely just because it displeases you. You need both positive and negative thoughts to be fully human, not a self-satisfied shell of a person.
This is wild for me because after a TBI I have no internal narrative or spontaneous thought, I can in fact ONLY generate deliberate thought. One would assume a vast detriment to cognitive ability, and although I’d say there IS that element (155 IQ problem solving idea generator to 120 IQ unnaturally producing simple generally NON-Creative deliberate thought) I come off to others as fairly normal, slightly above average intellect. For me it is endlessly tragic to think back on how simply I thought through problems and navigated the world. Compared to the effort I now put forth to accomplish much less.
As a novice in the zen i like to focus on breath. I hear and try to pronounce how the breath would be spelled. Like in comics ZzZ for sleeping. That tunnel visions me in the past. But more often only for a certain time
IceBaths help me control my stinkin’ thinkn’ 100% as my videos showcase. Icetherapy blanks out my negative narrative and a fresh page is now available to create a positive outlook.
Wait wait wait, this isn’t how everyone thinks??? I’m pretty sure I control every thought that goes through my head after the initial que for it. It’s sort of like a system that I’m working out afterwards. And sometimes it’ll go on pause if something else comes up. That’s the best way I can explain it. Pretty sure that’s just normal though
You mean one of your spontaneous thoughts can deliberately extend into another thought. The “I can deliberately introduce the thought” thought is also spontaneous.
"hlaf the time you think you're thinking you're actually listening" In this our thoughts dont define us. Personally i chose to think the word "onwards" to skip over negative thought i find myself observing. Next thought lets gooo ..took me some getting practise
“You are not your thoughts, you are how you choose to respond to those thoughts”
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It's not that simple
@@SyedIbrahim-fn6uwwhy not
How so
You are your thoughts cause every thought is an unwritten command to the over 100 billion neurons in our body and our neurons controll every cell in our body
Our thoughts determine how we feel and our actions
"Attention Control" is an important skill, and woefully unexplored.
That’s what people with ADHD lack. 😢 people think it’s not paying attention but really it’s sometimes giving too much attention to the wrong things.
Unexplored? The Buddha and his followers have been exploring this for centuries. Theravada 101 dude
@@jakkritphanomchit oh that’s smart! I never really thought of it that way.
Exactly... it thought about buddhist meditation straight away too
I am born 1977 and I remember how in western countries in the 90s, when I was studying psychology, only hippies who visited India believed that mediation can heal problems with the mind... The knowledge was out there since 4000-10000 years but not taken seriously anymore.
Since we the can literally prove it with western fMRI scans, we say "Wooooow look at this!!" , as only one example, "look how the amygdala changes the size with practicing mediation" and suddenly borderline is treatable with mindfulness in psychology and Cognitive Behavior Therapy won over psychoanalysis, 😂
And as usual, they forget to mention that this vedic knowledge is older then Buddhism, people forget that vedic science is older then Buddhism, it's vedic science and buddism is a very successful export hit.. and many hundred years ago, the mugal empire had its fair share of destroying this vedic knowledge in India.
Read old vedas and humble the west with thousands of years old knowledge ❤
"I am alive and well."
Just repeat this and you're solid.
With some practice - once you acknowledge that random thoughts are constantly and spontaneously coming into your conscience - you can also start to ignore and swipe past them almost literally like CZcams shorts. Helpful for breaking thought loops 👌🏼
I heard a saying once “your first thought is what society has trained you to think, your second is how you actually think“
It’s your first thought is your reflex character; how you learned to think by the people who brought you up, especially between about age 18 months to maybe 8 or 9 years old.
Your second thought is how you’ve grown to perceive the world more individualistically through your own experiences.
Both are you, both are how you think. But one is a learned behaviour/thinking engrained in you by observing others and being instructed by others, the other is the behaviour/thinking you have been conditioned into by how what you’ve experienced in your own time and what you’ve come to believe after reflecting on your experiences.
Yes and a third thought could be the total sum of all other people's viewpoints on the same matter with myself just being one viewpoint - the most conscious thought
Yup. A book that I never finished yet is called think fast and slow and breaks down how we essentially have two centers of thinking: system 1 and system 2. There’s a system that controls how fast we react instantly to something then there’s our rational system that slows down and rationalizes everything. We need to use this system more often but instead we default to our lazy, programmed mode of thinking.
This was taught to me by my therapist as I was working through recovering from trauma. It helped me replace ruminating about the events that harmed me to thinking about making salad - and get my PTSD stress response under control.
Thanks for that! This can be quite a creative endeavor requiring alot of focus. :)
Thank you! So that's basically the diversion tactic, isnt it? I'm still learning how to effortlessly change my thoughts as now Im getting better at recognising the intrusive/unwanted thoughts. Now the work is indeed to change them, but I dont know how without consciously introducing a new thought. It's tiring. It's like battling 100 thoughts an hour so I've got to introduce other 100 new thoughts (e.g. from: I can't do that, that's difficult to that's a new interesting thing to try out)
That better be a really delicious salad.
I once turned off my spontaneous thoughts completely. In an ice bath for an hour in meditation. The thoughts didn't start again for a few hours. It was brilliant . Only managed it once. Meditation helps turn off the spontaneous thoughts.
When I spontaneously think a negative thought when I’m stressed, I then follow that thought with rational thinking and curiosity to come to a better understanding rather than just accepting that instant negative thought.
Instructions unclear: I now think I am Andrew
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@@finchsparrowbirddid you hear a gust of wind?
Since I talk to myself a lot I have learned to answer negative thoughts with positive insertions. They don't even have to be true they just have to make me feel better. That's what a best friend would do. 🤗
Lovely! 😇💜
Just wanted to thank you for your comment, one of the best tips I have found on a comment section, thank you!
I'm going on walks every day and inserting positive thoughts to override the negative ones. I've noticed it stops me from replaying emotions from triggers since my focus is directed elsewhere.
I insert gratitude as needed to clear the thoughts
It works! I noticed that I did this subconsciously and whenever I thought about something my brain automatically thought of the thing that I wanted associated with that specific thought and instantly dropped it altogether.
I have adhd I can think about literally anything for a long time no matter what’s going on around me, it’s my super power
No, if anything it's a tragic storyline... could be a superpower? but not really, you're just stuck in a shetty situation or substance that's quite beneficial in some ways but is very burdensome and quite working against your own betterment and development
@@aljonserna5598you sound like a glass half empty type of person.
@@maynx2743 I'm a realist with a bit of optimism. After all, deluding yourself will bite you back later--it's not okay to be bullied and treated badly because of your condition but it's also not okay to revel in what's holding you back (a very easy excuse to not give more due effort), since it would breed resentment and my personal experience among other's, it's a very destructive complex emotion (my imagery of it would be groups of wild dogs, flooding in and brutally tearing someone apart, especially your target of resentment)
Banish, deny and reject thoughts you don't want to identify with. Then replace them with a positive thought. This technique literally changed my life.
I "cancel xyz thought in Jesus' name" lmao. Works wonders
@@astribragdoe True, but it works without Jesus too. If you're religious, including this maybe helps even better.
What's the protocol for banish deny reject man? Cheers
@@jdillon523If you have a thought you don’t believe or don’t like, just say no or I don’t believe it. Say it mentally or even verbally if you’re alone and feel like it.
Reject unwanted thoughts, just like you would reject an offer from someone else.
@@Alex722great solution. I also find it helpful to attach a positive/helpful thought to the negative ones I'd like to block out. Our brains literally work on algorithms, so the negative thoughts always revolve around the same issues and themes. By training yourself to redirect those same negative thoughts to positive and empowering ones you are literally changing your automatic responses over time.
Since the reality of human beings is his thoughts, coupled with the interaction between thinking and conduct... we all can really transform our inner and outer lives! Gratitude, humbleness, detachment, an open attitude for learning, kindness, and everything positive based in values, makes our minds, hearts, souls and lives shine, for us and for others!
I have a constant internal monologue/conversation in my head going on most of the day except when involved in intense activities. Its very hard, no it feels almost impossible to distinguish between a "spontaneous thought" and a "deliberate thought."
I just go back and forth between positive and negative thoughts constantly. Especially when trying to exercise willpower to either resist an urge or to do something. I can go back and forth for so long and stay in that limbo phase. I guess that viewing my positive thoughts as deliberate, and negative thoughts as spontaneous can help to swing the odds in favor of doing the good thing instead of giving into temptation.
your spontanious thoughts, come from recent experiences throughout the day, the people you are surrounded and your activities!
You cant control a thought coming in, but you can control how long it stays..
How?
@@namerino1337 what thoughts are giving you trouble? list all
@@naturalconcretion Actually, it's that last year I felt the urge to delete my CZcams channel as I wasn't content with the videos. And now one year after having deleted it, I think about how great it would be to read the comments of this one video I produced again. No matter how severe that problem is. Having to think about it every ten seconds for many time episodes bothers me when I experience the current moment.
@@namerino1337 Ok, I understand. Maybe this will help.
You made a mistake and you are feeling regret and its making you feel bad. But mistakes are part of our life and we cant control them. Make peace with what you cant control, and forgive yourself for past and future mistakes. You have to practice this line of thinking. Whenver you get that bad thought and feeling, try to reframe it: "I cant control it, there is no point regretting the past, its done, im letting go and forgiving myself". Internalize this line of thinking. This is important because there is literally no reason to feel anything negative since it will do ZERO, only hurt you. The mind has a tendency to focus on the negatives so we have to retrain constantly to focus on the positives.
This has to be done regularly, like practice. Its not enough to just hear it once, you need to remind yourself whenever that negative thought comes, and eventually it will stop.
@@naturalconcretion Thank you very much! From now on I will try out your method of reframing. 🙌
This has worked very effectively when distracting people from a bad trip.
This is brilliant. I've heard this concept in psychology as well. However, it has never been framed quite this way. I love these consise educational and actionable videos. And I'm nerd enough to love the technical neuro science as well.
Absolutely, teaching is an art. I've taken classes by PhD's that are so hard to follow. They can't break it down for the uninitiated. Good teaching is an art.
For years I would stop an unfortunate thought by shouting "Get thee behind me!" Recently I realized that the 75-year backlog behind me had circled the globe and was now visible from the front.
This has been one of the most useful tools I have learned
Our conscious cognition has the ability to interrupt and overlay our subconscious stream. Fucking powerful.
Though I love to keep writing for my books, my blog, and my articles, it is hard work. It has me inexorably in its clutches. It is an addiction, but truly one that is beneficial.
Literally how I save my life every second
Don't think about how often you misuse or overuse the word literally.
Thank you so much for your knowledge… especially, you’re a ‘source’ that makes learning very attractive 😂
This boy ain't right
Yes, we can choose new thoughts
Thank you I will try that..... since someone lied to my face for 20 years there are a lot of horrible thought s
Seek Jehova and hes people ❤
I'm sorry they lied to you.
Well that clears things up.
Andrew is amazing
You are my motivation to continue to learn everything and anything I can about the brain
You can definitely stop your stream of thoughts and become one with the silence or nothing .
That's what meditation helps you to achieve
@@dd_Dedsec Not everyone can achieve that even though they practice it everyday . I'm not an example because I reached that state in a mere days.
I call this creative or q&a thinking.
Purposefully, I stop what I'm doing, and ask very deliberate questions...
With some very interesting answers 😊
And When You Realize Your Thoughts get delivered outside Your Throat as If You've Spoken it...Shows How Powerful thought. It Actually Resonates out side of Us
Definitely best to be Pronoia
Blessings Professor 😊
People say "change your thought" as if it's an easy thing to do. I know that to achieve success I need to change some thoughts, and neurons that fire together wire together. Yea I know. But it takes practice indeed.
For a person with anxiety tendency where their thoughts tend to run unchecked in the background, you've got to ACTIVELY battle them by introducing new thoughts, or challenging the thoughts like in Stoicism.
But it's an ACTIVE work. It's like building muscles, at first it requires a lot of energy.
I don't know your circumstances, so i don't know what you're struggling with. But I'd like to offer something that may help you as it did me, take it or leave it.
Freedom comes with the realization that your thoughts are not important. You don't decide to have them, they simply arise, so why do you need to own them, and feel responsible for them? You can choose to place your focus there, or simply let them go. The thought may still have you feeling bad, but there is relief and freedom in knowing you dont need to do anything to fix it or fight it, but to simply move on from it. It's not yours to deal with.
You CAN CONTROL AND DIRECT YOUR THOUGHTS! Absolutely.! You can direct your thoughts in a certain manner! ABSOLUTELY absolutely POSSIBLE! As a designer who needed to sit down and create an enormous amount of designs for certain things you sit down you channel your thoughts you take materials that you need you revise you read articles to get into that field of thought you train your thoughts to get into that direction… And when you get there, you’ll become very productive. You do things that you actually like product designs that are phenomenally good and it’s just I mean I can’t. I can’t even emphasize the benefits. You CAN CONTROL AND DIRECT YOUR THOUGHTS! Absolutely.!
Try to be in the present moment..listen to every minute thing around you...
It will be difficult in the beginning..but as you progress it will eventually become under control and its very effective
My trick
I noticed I need a topic in order to think a train of thought down that path so I just make sure I'm choosing topics that I don't have negative associations with in times I don't want to think negatively
Love this! 🙌
I didn’t know there was a term for this but I started retraining my brain by activating becoming aware of a thought and the negative ones I would replace with 2 positive thoughts. It took a lot of repetition but now it’s second nature and my life looks very different today because of this one skill.
Incredible!
It was introduced to me by a friend from math studies - Grzegorz.
He would remind himself of math problems while in public transportation and work on them mentally.
The most powerful thing you can do!
It IS possible to stop thinking a particular thought, through a process called mental displacement:
You can't think two thoughts at once, so focus your attention AND YOUR EMOTIONS on thinking /feeling something else- and in doing so you can force (displace) the other thought out of your active thinking.
I've been doing it for years so I KNOW IT WORKS! 😅
Again. being mindful.
He makes it sound like no one has ever had a thought on purpose before and this is some big revelation. Anything you think about other than the present (ie reacting) is thinking
Thank you my friend 🤜🤛💞🌹🙏
Take every thought captive
We cant control thoughts. But we can control thinking. Thinking is consciousness thinking about thoughts from the subconscious.
Let the thoughts flow through your head without thinking. Thats meditation. Thats peace within the mind
Me- “thinks positive thought”
OCD- “nah I’m good”
I can somehow stop my thoughts
Internet shorts are good for that. If I start thinking too much on something, and anxiety kicks in, I'll put on shorts. It introduced a new thought, to distract me, then, as soon as u start thinking too much about that thought, a new short pops up, & introduces a new thought, before I have time to get upset or overthink the 1st. And so on....
I should have been a neuroscientist because I feel like I’ve known it all before… it’s amazing to feel like I’ve known this all along!
I’ve struggled with many things and my goal is to figure out why I am the way I think and feel
When you’ve been told you’re too sensitive you’re entire life it’s the best way to begin hating yourself.
When you realize their is an actual chemical flowing through your brain that is the cause, first this I did was begin to study the brain.
Best thing I ever did but I’m still struggling with addiction regardless of substance or food or sex the word is the state I am desperately trying to diminish, at the same time understanding it for myself as well as give whoever the simplest explanation without my tears finishing testosterone!!
Lol
Thank you for sharing everything that is so important for the human race to understand!
I need this and want to be in the middle of any experiment you are doing
Bro taught me how to think
Thought are natural and not destructive but thinking is
Thinking is dangerous when used in the wrong areas
@@davbooms no actually it means like over thinking.
Good story well told 😮
Great help ty
We might not always have control of what we might think, but we can learn to control our reactions to our own thoughts 🎉
Control is not the way
A lot of things you jot down while thinking or speaking is a waste of time , therefore not speaking while you’re thinking is valuable enough to write it down
You only need to meditate and enjoy it, just this❤
Precisely. What you are doing isn't putting one thought on top of another... You are redirecting a thought in a new direction. Creating a new neuro pathway in your brain. It is hard at first... But... like a trail in the woods gets worn with travel, so does a new pathway in our brain.
There is a multitude of things I don't even struggle with anymore... Because I finally succeeded in creating an entirely new pathway. 👍
Oh... And I also happen to believe some thoughts in our head aren't always necessarily "our own".
When people expose their consciousness to a high traffic sight like Instagram or Twitter they are opening themselves to hundreds of thousands of "thoughts" other than their own.
#dirtylittlesecretnumbereight
His eyes are incredibly bright! What year was this?
As someone who stutters, almost all of us write what we are going to attempt to say before say it in our heads. My question is, does anyone know how to not think about it? As it's thinking about it which causes us to stutter
As someone with maladaptive daydreaming that is the most easy thing for me😅 because i fking daydream for hours a day and I'm addicted to it so far i have successfully go without it 3days and in the last night of the 3rd i fell back to it very fast and hard because i has totally only present in the moment for 3 days so had felt all this sensations of the outside very much because i has present. And when i daydreamed it felt so good so real so powerful that i quickly fell hard back to it😂😂😂 that was the last time that a tried to go without it. Sometimes i do it without even nothicing. Like i think I'm normal (in present )but at the same time imagining in my head stuff. But my fantasies...fantasies last for hours everyday. Today i think of course i did the subconscious one very much but that while i did other things so it has a more relief day but I'm addicted more then the internet to it like i cannot stop but the problem is that it feels so so good that i also to a deep level don't want to stop!! It just Feels so good the before day tho the time that i spent in my fantasies doing nothing it was i think kinda 6 hours and i do that a lot sometimes even more hours. Just imagining.But it is the most of the day that I'm consciously or subconsciously doing it i believe except if it is a very busy day. Or a try not to day. It is a bit mess up i mean i am very weird to my head now that i finally noticed that i have it after years of having it.😅 Especially lets say sometimes when i evolve real life people to my movies and am like wtf😂😂 after i noticed especially now that i am aware of it.
I get it I think! I have to get out of my head and find relief for overthinking. If you are not bothered by your day-fantasizing you would not have commented. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer has helped me and enlightened me. We (humans) strive to be better selves. Btw With God all is possible 🙏
Thank you Jesus🧠🇺🇸🙏🏽💪
Happy Birthday
Be in the Seat of Self 😊
Have you ever noticed that it is easy to just think random thoughts but if you try to purposely remember something that is not coming to you, that all your thoughts may stop? I’m a writer and don’t like to deny my thoughts, but I also don’t want to forget what I have already thought, esp. if had action associated with it like to find something.😢
It just proves that what you think is not always hard, and does not mean ‘someone is home’, but the way you control it or use it to your benefit…. Is what matters? If you can steer it to your benefit, that is what shows ‘someone is home’. To control your thoughts, like being in touch with reality is important in not lying to yourself, like to also find something.
Basic water and vegan nutrients are best to carry you into old age with a clear mind and conscience.
I have racing thought that become out of control and i cant stop them without real effort and it is scary. I think am i gonna have a siezure?
You can of course, to an extent, control spontaneous thought.
Crucial!!
What podcast is this from? Can someone please tell me the name - thank you
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My son: Should I think I am Andrew too?
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I'm Andrew too!!
Agree. Just think about something else
On a certain level, we have spontaneous thoughts in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
Replace negative thoughts with positives
It seems that you are monitoring the work of the nervous system and nerves... Glory be to the Creator
Just shows how important writing is.
So kool!
*Interesting thing about thinking is not alot of people do it.*
The notion (not expressed in the video, but in plenty of comments) that one should preferably only think positive thoughts and extinguish all negative ones is naive and absurd.
There's no inherent value in "thinking positive".
Your negative thoughts are kind of like your alarm system. They alert you to whatever may be going wrong in your life, in your relations etc.
While some of them may be false alarms, you shouldn't try to switch off your alarm system completely just because it displeases you.
You need both positive and negative thoughts to be fully human, not a self-satisfied shell of a person.
This is wild for me because after a TBI I have no internal narrative or spontaneous thought, I can in fact ONLY generate deliberate thought. One would assume a vast detriment to cognitive ability, and although I’d say there IS that element (155 IQ problem solving idea generator to 120 IQ unnaturally producing simple generally NON-Creative deliberate thought) I come off to others as fairly normal, slightly above average intellect. For me it is endlessly tragic to think back on how simply I thought through problems and navigated the world. Compared to the effort I now put forth to accomplish much less.
I can have absolutely nothing on my mind. Blank. Then i catch myself thinking about how my mind is blank. Then homers voice kicks in
I can relate it
My heart totally exhales when I see this man ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As a novice in the zen i like to focus on breath. I hear and try to pronounce how the breath would be spelled. Like in comics ZzZ for sleeping. That tunnel visions me in the past.
But more often only for a certain time
Bro somebody made up the word Zen why are you still following other people teachings and not learning from self??
Shrooms feels like inserting 4 thoughts on top of each other faster than you can blink
This man Is What IT IS
The more you do it the easier it gets.
An easier way to explain this, is it's about higher priority thought than low priority crap.
IceBaths help me control my stinkin’ thinkn’ 100% as my videos showcase. Icetherapy blanks out my negative narrative and a fresh page is now available to create a positive outlook.
Right but where does each prior thought come from? Ie where did your first ever thought come from?
Name of the podcast,please!?
Use This MORNING ROUTINE To Destroy Laziness & Eliminate BRAIN FOG! | Andrew Huberman
Lewis Howes
Use This MORNING ROUTINE To Destroy Laziness & Eliminate BRAIN FOG! | Andrew Huberman
Lewis Howes
Wait wait wait, this isn’t how everyone thinks??? I’m pretty sure I control every thought that goes through my head after the initial que for it. It’s sort of like a system that I’m working out afterwards. And sometimes it’ll go on pause if something else comes up. That’s the best way I can explain it. Pretty sure that’s just normal though
You mean one of your spontaneous thoughts can deliberately extend into another thought. The “I can deliberately introduce the thought” thought is also spontaneous.
So how does that make a thought go way or not re-occur
Whats the link to the full video?
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Use This MORNING ROUTINE To Destroy Laziness & Eliminate BRAIN FOG! | Andrew Huberman
Lewis Howes
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"hlaf the time you think you're thinking you're actually listening"
In this our thoughts dont define us.
Personally i chose to think the word "onwards" to skip over negative thought i find myself observing.
Next thought lets gooo ..took me some getting practise
Look up “ likhita japa “ it’s age old Indian tradition