Growth is getting "above" the patterns

Hey Guys,

Here is a tweet I sent out today: Research reveals 90% of our thoughts today are the same ones we had yesterday,..until we ATTEND and think differently about something.

This is one of the most important things we can ever learn....that we are always in danger of living life on "autopilot." We learn patterns of behavior, thinking, attitudes, etc. in life, and then our brains and lives run on that circuitry.

We may change the content of what we think about from today to tomorrow. For example, today it may be a relationship issue with person a and tomorrow it is person b, so we think we are thinking about something "new." But if we actually attend to the thinking, i.e., "how we thought" it would be exactly the same.......until.....we stop thinking and attend to "how we are thinking."

At that point, we see that our thinking itself is a pattern, and that pattern keeps us in a particular response pattern, or behavior pattern. We think in fearful ways, risk avoidant ways, negative outcome ways, paranoid ways, denying the risk impulsive ways, naive ways, etc. etc.

Growth is getting "above" our patterns and by noticing and  "observing our ways." Then, we can find new "ways" which become new patterns and lead to different fruit!

Join me on twitter, as I am trying to send out some little thoughts here and there:)

@relationshipsoc  

Cheers, Joe