what is thought made of?

Spiritual resource to share: a little something to think about


I've picked up some interesting things from talking with people about thinking.

One friend commented that she read that someone said (okay, so much for credible sources) that a person schooled in the study of human behaviour said that 90 to 95% of our thoughts are what we have thought the day before.

Another friend commented that she heard we spend the majority of our thoughts and efforts on trying to get people to change their minds.

And another young friend recently heard on a talk show that the majority of people polled were convinced that they heard voices in their heads.

So what we have here is not necessarily credible sources on the science of thought, but an interesting question of what constitutes thought.

Are we mainly involved in habitual thinking? Preoccupied with trying to control or convince other minds to accept what our mind is telling us? Trying to figure out what voices we are hearing? Is this what we are spending the majority of our day doing? Bla. It makes me tired just thinking of it.

MBEddy shares some insights when she writes:

When the mechanism of the human mind gives place to the divine mind, selfishness and sin, disease and death will lose their foothold.

It makes sense to me that the human mind, in and of itself, is not creative, is not a Creator. So if we rise no higher than thinking that we are the creator, originator and supervisor of all that we see, that we quickly lose our juice, our inspiration, and thought falls into the ruts of habitual thinking. Limited thinking results in limited health, limited ideas and limited goodness.

But when we understand that there is one Mind, one creative source - we open up our thought to infinite ideas, brilliant originality, and startingly new ways of doing/seeing and thinking about things.

So, when we give our consent to reflecting the divine mind (God) the limited habitual ways of thinking make way for infinite possibilities.

It certainly is something to think about.

Have a great week thinking original and expansive thoughts!



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