A KEY PROBLEM OF MIND
A key problem of mind is that its default setting is autopilot, so we often think, feel and act automatically.
This serves a convenient purpose, allowing us to do routine things with ease. But it can also keep us from utilizing our higher capacities of mind and acting with wisdom and finesse. Thus, we often don't get our best results and sometimes unintentionally act inappropriately and get bad results. So, while living on autopilot can be convenient and easier than not, it can also be the very cause of much failure and unhappiness.
To live more successfully and at our happiest, we need to take control of our mind and deliberately focus it at higher levels -- levels that are fully rational, objective, intuitive, and creatively and lovingly inspired. But before we can do this, we may need to recognize how much we live on autopilot and undermine our higher mental capacities. And this can be difficult to see and accept, for we tend to cling to the strong belief that we're in full control of our thoughts and actions ... when we're actually not.
Yet, if we make an effort to observe ourselves closely, we may notice how automatically many of our thoughts, feelings and actions arise. (By definition, automatic means we're on autopilot.) We may also notice how our mind often leaps uncontrollably in different directions. This is not to say that all our automatic and spontaneous responses are wrong -- in many cases they serve us adequately. It is rather to underscore the fact that they are automatic and we're not as in control as we may think. And that they often unpredictably impact events in detrimental ways regardless of our good intentions.
If you observe this process you may see the true situation -- that our actions are often automatic and don't meet the true needs of many situations; and that to get the good results we want, a freer and higher level of mind is often needed.
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Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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