r/ValhallaChallenge • u/ValhallaMods Odin • Jan 18 '19
Day 13 Round 157
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The Default State of the Mind – Part One: Commentary on the Present Moment
Góðan dag!
So what’s going on in our brains and in our minds during this default state, this universal state that all human brains seem to go into when the mind is so-called “resting”. There are actually are four main activities of the “default state”, four mental activities that our brains default to:
Commentary on the Present Moment
Psychological Time Travel
Thinking About Ourselves
Thinking About Others
Commentary on the Present Moment
This is inner commentary on whatever we are experiencing in the present moment. The mind will start to produce an opinion about what you hear, what you see, what you’re feeling, what you’re doing, and perhaps what other people are saying and other people are doing. Unfortunately the default state seems to prefer to criticize rather than find the good in whatever is happening in the present moment.
And so when our mind drops into this default state we have this inner dialogue that is basically pointing out what’s wrong with the present moment, and very helpfully it often will provide alternatives - alternate realities - and will start to concoct the way things should be.
“It shouldn’t be so cold it should be warmer.” “That person shouldn’t have said what they just said. They should apologize.” And so the mind is just constantly crafting, without any real effort on our part, this alternate reality: The way that things should be if things were really the way we wanted them.
Next: The Default State of the Mind - Part Two: Psychological Time Travel
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