sunday: june 07th
"who looks outside, dreams. who looks inside, awakes."
while we continue to live, we are constantly thinking, some are important thoughts that are to be prioritised and explored, some you just throw away, or let pass. we have about 12,000 - 60,000 thoughts in one day. that is a lot!
"All manner of crazy things happen. But at the heart of it all is a grounded discussion on mindfulness, love, anger, resentment, listening, forgiveness, and even death."
that is a line from The Midnight Gospel, which all of you should honestly check out, originally from the Dunan Trussel's Podcast.
within that line mindfulness finds a mention, and deservingly so. it is something i have always constantly explored and it is truly enlightening. meditation has a very large part in concepts like such. but something else that is a tinier part of the same, and can actually change the way you live your day to day is what I meant to highlight with the quote i started the mail with: thinking about thinking.
when you are curious about your own mind and the places it goes, you slowly become psychologically sophisticated. you are able to be present within yourself and in the external word in a much more deeper, and conscious sense. i would even go as far as saying, it's almost feels like you live on a higher existential plane; maybe put in easier terms - you feel enlightened somehow.
the key to thinking about thinking, is understanding that when we feel something negative, or to be more precise, when we think something negative, it is not happening to us, it is an activity our mind is doing. worrying, is something you do, worry doesn't happen. don't imply the wrong meaning from this, I don't mean to say "it's in your head", which is often times a very horrible thing to say, other times just the harsh and honest truth. what i am trying to say instead is that, this realisation helps you work with these thoughts better, negative and positive ones alike, and you don't have to fight your thoughts anymore.
when you start to be more conscious about what you are thinking, and why exactly, you create a structure of thoughts, and over time you'll find yourself in a much better place in a psychological way. you wouldn't let things affect you quick, you worry less, you are truly at peace and most important of all - you feel mentally stronger.
some of you might feel that this is an impossible task to go through with, to actually put in the amount of effort to think about our thoughts and possibly overthink and go into a deadly vicious spiral? see, that's exactly why you need to take up this task. it's a road towards being at peace, being mindful, appreciating our very existence, and it starts within yourself, and then slowly making regular meditation a part of your life.
you never get anywhere if you stay in your comfort zone. never. when you are scared of doing something is when you know that you should go out there and do it.
"In every universe there is a question; in every person there is an answer."
- The Midnight Gospel (Trailer)
hello,
hope you're doing great, i love writing about mindfulness, different philosophies and concepts, and overall, i guess thinks that help you go deeper inside yourself and at the same time expand outwards in a positive sense. meditation has always been important to me, and over the past few months i've really given it a front-row seat in my life, what most people don't realise when they get involved in mindfulness practices and meditation is that they think they're adding some sort of points to their existence, do not get stuck up on some non-existent end goal. there is no end goal. it is the journey, it's really the journey that counts. there is no end. i really hope that these emails actually make sense to you; i'd love for you to reply to these emails with your thoughts and recommendations for future emails.
