Posted by Dr. Rod on December 1, 2003, at 19:27:01
What you see right now is called sight… What you see later is much more complicated… Sight is experienced in only one spot in the brain, called the visual cortex… This is all eyes do, and do it good they do…
The mind’s eye is a whole lot more… After you attach a feeling to what you saw with yours eyes, your mind works with your brain to find a good place to store that picture so that it won’t get quickly lost… Feelings create a value to the picture you see, forming it into a memory, adding priority and meaning to the picture, which in turn helps you find it later…
If the picture you are storing causes you a conflict, things start happening to the picture quality, mostly to attempt to resolve the conflict… Sometimes with some people, lack of proper guidance and/or acceptance of guidance, starts messing with the simple picture… The brain also has clues as to where the picture went, but growing up in un-disciplined discipline can scatter good simple pictures all over the place…
None of this is good or bad unless you make it good or bad… Its about choices, yours… As a children, inappropriate and undisciplined discipline can leave you feeling that choices are never yours to begin with… Most common, is a nagging feeling that whatever choice you make isn’t right, “enough”… You “vibrate with indecision” until you have no time left and make a sometimes regrettable decision, or panic and don’t decide at all…
If your history is chaos, going down its comfortable and well-worn path leads only to tomorrow being just like yesterday, one day at a time… Curiosity and discovery, instead of avoiding this new idea or that new chore, allows you to see more new stuff… Since stuff you’re not even aware of not knowing, and can’t even guess at, is almost everything that exists, new clues will creep into to your brain from this unknown territory, only when and if you let them; more choices!!! This process is a gentle upgrading of your information and knowledge “toolbox”…
I can’t do it for you… Your “meds” can’t do it for you, no matter how much you need them to exist (it’s a bad idea to stop existing)… No one at “Psychological-Babble” can do it for you… Your shrink can supply you with clues and “meds”, but the "choices" part is still yours…
Thank heaven for your ability to see something new 10 times per second… Really!!! That’s how long it takes to know something new; 100 milliseconds, 1/10th of a second… See how enormous the waste of your time that chronic indecision and procrastination can become???
…and the choices are yours…
poster:Dr. Rod
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