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Too Much Inside Your Head?
Finding the balance for change in practicing mindfulness.
There are a lot of things inside my head.
Much of the data I have absorbed over the years is useless. I mean, in a trivia game I know a lot of facts about things that do not serve me otherwise.
In addition to information overload, there are numerous ideas, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings buried deep inside my subconscious mind. Many were formed in my youth based on my environment and experiences.
Still, unchecked, they have a serious impact on my actions of today and work in conscious reality creation. To build up my life in the way I desire it to be, I have a lot of old, outdated data to remove and replace.
But deeper than that, a lot of that data is part of my “operating system.” Human 4.7 gets an annual upgrade — but that doesn’t change, remove, or replace the old operating parameters.
To understand this, and to do anything with and about it, you have to go into your own mindset/headspace/psyche. Dig around inside your subconscious mind to locate and identify outdated and non-useful beliefs, patterns, and habits. Then — determine how to remove and replace them.
BUT — because this isn’t challenging enough in-and-of-itself — you need to be present…