![]() ![]() This helps with mindfulness, a way to deeper enlightenment. Putting things down in a coherent way helps you still the mind and reach through the murk and tumult to the calmness within. From that chaos, you select that one lucid thought that reveals who you really are at the core. When you write down things in your mind, you concentrate on a specific thought, you wade into that chaotic mess in order to find that golden needle in a proverbial haystack. Once you are able to distinguish between the chaff and the gold, you are one step further up the enlightenment ladder, and journaling can help you climb up those rungs.įirst of all, journaling, as a key to introspection, helps us organize our thoughts, follow that single thread, and untangle the jumbled mess in our minds. This is where introspection and mindfulness come in. But we may also lose some gems as we cruise through life. Of course most of these are pretty much useless and banal musings not worth any further explorations. That means on average, our minds can compute a minimum of 2500 thoughts per hour (or 41 thoughts per minute) working on a 24 hour basis. It is such a pity that most of us live like this and have never had an original thought in our lifetime: we seem to live a life of inherited thoughts and ideas.īelieve it or not, experts claim that on average the human brain processes between 60,000 to 80,000 separate thoughts per day. As Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, succinctly puts it, “ The unexamined life is not worth living.” In simple terms, do not go through life like a zombie get some time for introspection. We really need to delve deep inside our psyche so as to get to know ourselves better. Most of us do not have the least idea of how to get to know ourselves, to examine our own thought processes, and know what is really happening in our minds. ![]() And so we go through life like hamsters on a wheel. Our minds, at the end of the day, are pretty much jumbled up and tangled in many tight loops. ![]() From our daily Sisyphean tasks to the moment we lie down to sleep, we wade through a lot of ads, billboards, TV, radio, environmental noise, and stresses of life we are bombarded with so many unnecessary stimuli that we barely have time to hear, let alone sort out our own inner thoughts. Nowadays, life is pretty demanding for most of us. ![]()
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