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Thought OS by Apple — Emotional OS by Microsoft
When your thoughts and feelings, like a computer, run on different operating systems, is it any wonder that humans are so conflicted?
When I began to look into mindfulness and conscious reality creation, I was initially struck by how the subconscious could get control and do the driving. Then, when you become more aware of your thoughts and feelings, they differ rather dramatically.
For me, I was more of a thinker than a feeler for a long time. As I commenced to explore this further I began to open myself up to feeling.
As I started working with this, it occurred to me that thought (the mind) and feeling (the heart) frequently speak different languages.
In a recent conversation with a friend, a wholly new idea about these principles of human existence came to me: If you equate humans to computers, and many people do, then what we have here are two completely different operating systems in place.
While there are crossovers between these, they differ enough in their fundamentals that they do not entirely communicate so well with one another.
I have often explained the operating systems from Apple versus the operating systems from Microsoft thus…