Sometimes, we need to think of things that give us no results.
That is healthy in a way.
Interesting....
Would you please clarify this for me, and explain to me why in your view this is 'healthy'?
Thank you.
Most of our self talk leads us no where. But that is good to keep our mind busy.
Why did you ask?
you knew the answer.
Thank you for coming back to clarify, CDM, and no, I didn't know the answer, but I needed clarification, because I did not wish to jump to assumptions or conclusions.
Keeping your mind busy with self-talk can be constructive at times, providing the thoughts are deliberate, positive and focussed.
However, permitting thoughts to come and go at random, without any attention or control, is not constructive and does not always generate a positive result.
The more you let your mind wander, the more it is apt to become uncontrollable.
I know from experience that those coming to Meditation sessions I conduct, who have themselves experienced - or are experiencing - periods of acute, chronic or clinical depression, have actually benefitted enormously from meditation, and studiously making efforts to not only control their personal thought patterns, but in some cases, to eliminate them altogether, by stilling the mind.
One man who was diagnosed with a bi-polar condition in his teens (they called it manic depression then) has managed to reduce his medication to such an extent that he expects to be fully free of it within a year. He is 44, and has taken medication since he was 17.
He puts this down entirely to the disciplines of mediation and Tai Chi.
I would add most emphatically that I have had absolutely nothing to do with this aspect of his treatment, and have had no influence or opinion on his medication. This process has been entirely directed and governed by him and his doctor. I would never under any circumstances advise anyone on any medication they are being prescribed.
Just to make that quite clear!!
