What’s on your mind?
Now, this is not the regular Facebook question that you find on your timeline. No. This is rather more serious and urgent. It is a wake-up call and a call to consciousness about the world right inside of you and all of the ruminations happening there.
Did you know that the human mind typically has about 50,000 to 55,000 thoughts per day, and I can bet that you and I are often not conscious of over 90 percent of these thoughts — the more reason why we then have to develop the habit of always seeking to know what may be going on in our mind from time to time. We must consciously make the effort.
I need not mention that our lives move in the direction of our dominant thoughts. It’s a no-brainer. Wherever your thoughts go, your life goes. If you are always dwelling on positive thoughts, you have just signed up for a happy life and vice versa. That means that you cannot leave all of those background thoughts to chance, you have to stay in charge and have a hand in the kind of things happening in your head. Sometimes, wrong thoughts may fly like a bird above your head, but you must not let them rest and create a nest there.
You must be wary of those times when it seems like your mind is on recess, for example, when you are doing physical chores like cleaning the house, washing the dishes, fixing your wardrobe, or even when you are merely scrolling through social media timelines…those are the times when it is easy for your mind to relapse into its own world and start to process all kinds of thoughts — wrong thoughts a lot of times. Another hack that you can use is: anytime you observe a sudden change of mood, that should automatically tell you that something is amiss and you must then consciously ask the question, what’s on my mind, what am I thinking now? And this question is often the first step in ascertaining what’s actually happening there (or what virus may have found its way there), before you then take eliminatory actions to clean up your mental disc. Depressive (and all kinds of negative thoughts) are always lurking around the corner, waiting for your unguarded moment to creep into your mind but don’t allow them.
Always stay on guard
