Can't Stop Procrastinating? Two Simple Steps to Rein in The Thoughts Running Amoke in Your Mind!
If it's true that for every action there is a corresponding
thought, even before the "impulse to act" occurred, and just before you
act... that is the open door to taking full control of "all" your
actions.
A chance to control even to those actions you call impulsive (when what you mean to say is "all most impossible to control").
To know for certain, if this is so (or not), you first watch your thoughts for a while. Especially when you're getting ready to act on something, anything.
It always starts with finding your current prominent thought. Think about it.
Watch your thoughts for a short time. To learn to be 'sensitive' --- to the passage of your thoughts. According to the College Dictionary I have on hand one meaning for 'sensitive' is "registering very slight changes or differences".
So you're watching your thoughts to learn to 'register the changes or differences' in them--- for even just a couple minutes at a time (to start).
So your practice is finding a thought, call it your anchor thought, watching it... and when your attention is suddenly taken by a different thought... bringing your attention back to your anchor thought.
Want to test how much control you really have over your brains thinking, try it a couple times a day for a few days. And see how long you can hold your attention on a single thought.
After doing this till you're comfortable with it, move to a second type of thought practice.
It always starts with finding your current prominent thought. Think about it.
Only this time instead of simply bringing your attention continually back to your anchor thought, now you follow that thought to see where it takes you. What new thought does it turn into? Watch the train of thoughts and where they tend to go in similar directions.
Watch the train of thoughts and see where they go- then come back to paying attention to an individual thought.
Remember what we're doing here. It's not an act of simple meditation, just playing with holding your attention on something for a time.
It's being sensitive to the thoughts that generate your actions. Then you practice replacing that thought to change the action. You think to stand up you stand. You think to sit down and you sit.
Simple? Until you try to change your "impulsive" actions. But become sensitive to 'registering the changes or differences' of your thinking and you come a long way to holding the thoughts that make you put an end to procrastinating. And find yourself getting things done like an old pro!
A chance to control even to those actions you call impulsive (when what you mean to say is "all most impossible to control").
To know for certain, if this is so (or not), you first watch your thoughts for a while. Especially when you're getting ready to act on something, anything.
It always starts with finding your current prominent thought. Think about it.
Watch your thoughts for a short time. To learn to be 'sensitive' --- to the passage of your thoughts. According to the College Dictionary I have on hand one meaning for 'sensitive' is "registering very slight changes or differences".
So you're watching your thoughts to learn to 'register the changes or differences' in them--- for even just a couple minutes at a time (to start).
So your practice is finding a thought, call it your anchor thought, watching it... and when your attention is suddenly taken by a different thought... bringing your attention back to your anchor thought.
Want to test how much control you really have over your brains thinking, try it a couple times a day for a few days. And see how long you can hold your attention on a single thought.
After doing this till you're comfortable with it, move to a second type of thought practice.
It always starts with finding your current prominent thought. Think about it.
Only this time instead of simply bringing your attention continually back to your anchor thought, now you follow that thought to see where it takes you. What new thought does it turn into? Watch the train of thoughts and where they tend to go in similar directions.
Watch the train of thoughts and see where they go- then come back to paying attention to an individual thought.
Remember what we're doing here. It's not an act of simple meditation, just playing with holding your attention on something for a time.
It's being sensitive to the thoughts that generate your actions. Then you practice replacing that thought to change the action. You think to stand up you stand. You think to sit down and you sit.
Simple? Until you try to change your "impulsive" actions. But become sensitive to 'registering the changes or differences' of your thinking and you come a long way to holding the thoughts that make you put an end to procrastinating. And find yourself getting things done like an old pro!
The more you fill your mind with the seeds of what you want to
make happen in your life, the more you'll automatically move in that
direction.
Come fill your mind with "getting more done in your life".
Be more productive and stop feeling lazy.
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