Re: why do YOU think?

[SwingWaltz]

thinking gets my mind off thoughts

Ah...I agree!

Sometimes I think so that I won't have to think about OTHER stuff. 

[emeralddancer]

my thoughts have thoughts of their own. gets rather mighty confusing up in my brain!

[elisedance]

my thoughts have thoughts of their own. gets rather mighty confusing up in my brain!

So you have a pensing order

[QPO]

I was always thought that "thought matters" or "what you think matters". One of my teachers does say that brain activity (like running old movies) doesn't equal thinking. He says that most people don’t really think, they just replay old movies and old habits.

i agree about habits; my cbt therapist is trying hard for me to change my thinking patterns

Yes you have to create new ones and positive ones it is a mind game your CBT is right, you can change only if you want to.

[elisedance]

perhaps we think to avoid the silence

[Bordertangoman]

perhaps we think to avoid the silence

absolutely; the unbearable lightness of being as Kundera put it.

[TangoDancer]

Someone told me once that only 5% of the populace thinks. another 5% think that they think. And, the other 90% would rather to die than to think.

perhaps we think to avoid the silence

I absolutely love the silence, and try very hard to not think.

[Bordertangoman]

exactly tango music is made of the silence between.....

[elisedance]

Someone told me once that only 5% of the populace thinks. another 5% think that they think. And, the other 90% would rather to die than to think.

Is that what s/he thunk?

but was h/she shure h/she wasn't in one of the other two catagories

[elisedance]

perhaps we think to avoid the silence

I absolutely love the silence, and try very hard to not think.

And perhaps that is our ultimate test of wellbeing:
'Can I endure my personal silence?

[Bordertangoman]

perhaps we think to avoid the silence

I absolutely love the silence, and try very hard to not think.

And perhaps that is our ultimate test of wellbeing:
'Can I endure my personal silence?

if you just shut up for ten minutes I probably could.....

[elisedance]

perhaps we think to avoid the silence

I absolutely love the silence, and try very hard to not think.

And perhaps that is our ultimate test of wellbeing:
'Can I endure my personal silence?

if you just shut up for ten minutes I probably could.....

actually its not about me, or anyone else or even anything else making a noise...

[Bordertangoman]

perhaps we think to avoid the silence

I absolutely love the silence, and try very hard to not think.

And perhaps that is our ultimate test of wellbeing:
'Can I endure my personal silence?

if you just shut up for ten minutes I probably could.....

actually its not about me, or anyone else or even anything else making a noise...

ah the sound of one of your hands clapping....

[elisedance]

yes... I need it to clap rather loudly - I fear my own silence something awful.  I wish I had TDs internal balance.
OTOH why do you think I do so much? 

[Bordertangoman]

yes... I need it to clap rather loudly - I fear my own silence something awful.  I wish I had TDs internal balance.
OTOH why do you think I do so much? 

habit; societal and religious pressures; Christian Work (to death) ethic
and fear of.....

fill in the blank