Returning to the fold 1
5th Jan 2009
Hello lovely people
I am fascinated by how the mind and brain works and how our thought processes are shaped. How do we grow new habits? How do we change our thought processes?
I read an analogy the other day that made a lot of sense to me.
The author compared our minds to a piece of paper that is folded. Try this: fold a piece of paper, then fold it again. Then put the piece of paper down. When you pick it up, the easiest fold to reach is the most recent one.
Our thoughts are the same. Whenever we have a new thought, our minds return to the most recent thought.
This is an incredibly powerful piece of information.
Here is another fact. Our minds and bodies are by default tuned to positive thoughts. One positive thought will counteract a number of negative thoughts.
What does all this mean?
It means we can control our thoughts. If we can do that, we control all the energy waves that emanate from us, and we control the energy that is returned to us.
This is such a simple, yet powerful tool.
Imagine a new colleague joins you at work. You see this person for the first time and notice her lovely eyes. That is the first fold in the paper. Then this person does not introduce herself to you, and her first words are an attack on everyone around her new desk for not clearing the desk drawers before she arrived. That is the second and most recent fold in the paper.
The person then starts to work at a desk five steps from your own desk. You still do not know her name. You have forgotten about her lovely eyes. You now think of her as “that rude woman at the next desk”.
But is she really rude? Could it be that she was not so sure of herself, and that she regarded the new desk as a temporary space for a temporary position where she does not really want to be anyway, and that she was in fact voicing her frustration? Was that why she raised her voice and neglected to introduce herself? Could it be that it is only my perception that she is rude? And that thought then becomes the most recent fold in the paper.
When someone then enters the office and ask where Lynne’s desk is, I have no idea who Lynne is. But if someone points at the desk of the new lady, my first thought is “they mean the rude lady” because that was the most recent thought in the paper of my mind.
I do not think “they mean the new lady with the beautiful eyes”, because that thought has been covered with more recent thoughts, and my mind returns to the most recent thought on the topic.
Then you are away from work for a few days. When you return, the lady walks into the office, approaches your desk, holds out her hand and says “Hi. We have not been introduced yet. My name is Lynne.” She smiles and you think “she has lovely eyes”. That becomes the most recent thought.
To be continued.
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