Mindlessness The Default State of the Mind: Warrior Mind Podcast #166

The purpose of this warrior mind podcast is to help you understand mindlessness.  That it’s not necessary to live at the mercy of an untamed mind. By becoming familiar and understanding the way our minds work, we can learn to shape our mental functions in ways that will remove the frantic, driven, distracted, semiconscious qualities from our lives.

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10 Elements of Mindlessness

1. Most of the time, our minds behave by generating a constant swirl of remarks and judgments that create a barrier of words and images that separate us from our own lives. This mental condition of mindlessness makes it difficult to be mindful, or attentive, to the experiences of our lives.
2. With mindlessness we think of our minds as our own—as something belonging to ourselves and to no one else.
3. We basically think of ourselves as in control of our own thought processes. Our minds are in fact our most private domains. Most people will more readily regard their minds as the locus of their true or real selves—rather than, say, their bodies.
4. Most of us simply have not taken the time to observe the operation of our mind. In general, we pay about as much attention to our minds as we do to the rest of our lives, which is to say, of course, not very much, this is mindlessness.
5. Your thoughts may even alternate between past and future, but they will tend to avoid the present as much as possible. If you pay attention to your ordinary thought processes, you will discover that you probably spend very little time living in the present.
6. We’re not ordinarily in control of our minds, despite what we may think. We can’t turn them off, and we can’t always make them do what we want. Judgments, thoughts, and emotions seem to arise unbidden and often unwelcome.
7. Rather than being in control of our minds, our minds seem to control us—compelling us, driving us, urging us in the directions it deems fit.
8. Mindlessness comes at a very high cost: Living with a mind that we don’t know very well, that is often out of control and semiconscious much of the time, causes us and others to suffer greatly—probably far more than we realize.
9. Mindfulness is the power of heightened awareness and sensitivity to ourselves and our world. This sense of dissatisfaction, of which we are more or less conscious at different times in our lives, impels us to find something— anything—to bring relief. Unfortunately, our minds have been conditioned to seek solutions to its torment in the most unhelpful ways.
10. The beliefs that compel us to keep looking somewhere else for something to bring us relief are so common that we rarely consider that it might be time to try another approach.

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