The Art of Thinking
Philosophically, it is understood that the “thinking” and the “thinker” cannot have separate existence. Both entity come into existence when the energy of sub-consciousness manifests itself in the form of thoughts. Therefore, the process of thinking is a transformation of unknown energy into a known energy (thought).
A logical follow-up question to the on-going argument is the following.
Since the energy transformation phenomenon (thinking) occurs in a human body, is it humanely possible to control it?
The answer is yes and no.
Well, that is not a straightforward answer. It is because nothing in this Brahmand (cosmos) can be distinctly categorized without a continuum. Nothing is purely black or purely white. There is brown, grey, and so on.
One way to control your thinking, or better say make use of your thinking, is to practice deliberate thinking.
There are two types of thinking (with continuum) — background thinking and deliberate thinking. The background thinking occurs all the time in human mind irrespective of its need. Its a constant blabber of the mind. The background thinking is analogous to the background applications in smartphone, which rapidly drain out the battery. For example, during lunch your background thinking gets busy in the critical analysis of a Facebook post you scrolled through that morning. Take another example. In the middle of a fantastic 3D sci-fi movie, your background thinking starts projecting your doomed future. Such thinking makes life miserable and surely unenjoyable.
On the other hand, the deliberate thinking is more focused and disciplined than background thinking. It is done by harnessing mind in a particular domain depending on the subject of thinking. It makes the process of thinking comparatively efficient and productive. The best example of a deliberate thinking is this blog written by restricting my thinking in a particular domain. Let me give you another example. If you focus completely on food while dinning, savoring the taste of each ingredients, observing the geometry of each grain of rice, then that would be an example of deliberate thinking. Doing so will leave you satiated and also enhance food digestion. Expressive writing could be another example, where you deliberately jot down answers, on a physical paper using a physical pen, to a particular question troubling you.
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The idea is to think mindfully about a task, problem, situation, action etc.
Now that you know, which one would you choose?
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