IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR MIND – START LISTENING WITH CARE.  

If you think that having voices in your head is just you, it’s not. We all have them because that’s how the mind works. The mind loves to be busy, or rather I should say, it doesn’t know what to do with itself if it’s not thinking all the time and It stays busy by having a continued conversation with itself. That’s why we need to learn to pause more so we are not wasting time, thinking about something that’s not getting us what we want or need.

A 2020 study debunked the myth that we have 70,000 – 90,000 thoughts per day. Thankfully because can you imagine how stressful that would be?

The study instead found that most people have around 6,000 thought per day, which still means a lot of chatter or a lot of possibility, depending on what we are doing with these thoughts.

The thing about thoughts is that they come to the mind as questions and some of them come at you faster than you can count.

We might ask questions like, what’s for lunch, do I want the red one or the blue one, and what kind of sock should I wear with my new sneakers. And relationship questions like, I wonder if he / she likes me, why am I not invited, and what if they are mad at me? And then there are work questions like, what’s the point, what are they asking me to do, what’s expected of me.

All of these questions can get you stuck or help you solve problems. The choice is yours! Yes. It’s yours because you can pause and choose where you put your attention.

That’s why Power-Pausing is so powerful.

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Originally published on February 7, 2024 at JeanetteBronee.com.