Thinking……

Thinking,

How do you think?

What is thinking?

Thinking is the breakdown of what you hear, feel, and react to inside your mind regarding a current or past experience, situation, and thought, whether material or not.

Thoughts bombard your brain like raindrops on a windshield. These thoughts generate an initial reaction, making you feel some way. Those two data points start a flurry of emotions, memories, and other feelings that may or may not be wanted.

Alienating your voice- what you hear.

That voice tells you to keep studying, pick up the trash, go to the gym, and get up in the morning—all of the actions that cause the most friction in our lives.

Your brain is starting to fire back, pulling out any experience that will curb your will, fighting against this voice and pulling you back to a comfortable place.

When I was at mile 43 of 100 in my ultra marathon, my brain started this process.

I hit an unexpected wall, and my mind turned on me.

"You are not even halfway done; you are not going to make your goal time of sub 25 hours. You could be back with your wife in a few hours and not spend the night running only not to finish."

We had to return to the voice that leads us down the path of who we are. I allowed myself to hear the voice and consciously said, “Our decision at this moment will determine not only the race but the rest of our lives. Our job is to empty the tank and fight; that is what we will do."

Listening is uncomfortable.

But comfort is not the goal.

Peace is.

Finding your authentic self is.

The ability to explore consciousness and make conscious choices is a privilege guiding us to our version of internal peace.

Comfort is autopilot, breaking up the process of listening, feeling, and reacting.

The goal isn't to isolate any one of them.

It's to allow all three to flow in harmony with one another.

Feel your gut, listen to yourself, and observe your initial reaction to allow yourself to make the decision.

When the voice you hear aligns with your gut and your actual reaction, not out of emotion, that's your answer.

When you avoid dealing with what has internally hurt you, you allow social norms, other people, or previous experiences to decide for you.

You give up your right as a human to experience this life the way you want to experience it.

Your ability to think is reliant on your past traumas.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, and make things right to the best of your ability.

Let's all start hearing more—hearing what others have to say and listening to what we have to say.

Remember that it's always Day 01, and it's never too late to start living good to die great.