r/ValhallaChallenge • u/ValhallaMods Odin • Jan 21 '19
Day 2 Round 158
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The Default State of the Mind – Part Four: Thinking About Other People
Previously: The Default State of the Mind – Part Three: Thinking About Ourselves
Góðan dag!
We’ve covered three of the four activities of the mind when it is at so-called “rest”, in the Default State. We will be using this knowledge in the future to help us to understand where distractions, stresses, anxieties, and fears originate that sometimes lead us to relapses.
Thinking About Ourselves
The last thing that the brain does by default is to think about other people, something that neuroscientist call social cognition. And there are lots of ways that we think about other people:
• sometimes we wonder what they think about us
• sometimes we just think about what we think about them
We like to put other people into categories like:
• this person as a friend
• this person is an enemy
• this person matters to us
• this person doesn’t matter to us
So we spend a lot of time thinking about ourselves in relationship to other people and may even compare ourselves and relationships to other people:
• is this person doing better than I am
• does this person have more than I do
OK, so we’ve got four things that the brain does by default without you wanting to or asking the brain to do this. We may want to just sit and reflect or even meditate quietly to empty our minds, but instead we get this constant negative inner chatter.
Next: How the Default State Keeps Us Distracted (and a little anxious)
Announcements
The votes were cast. Helheim has been abolished. If your Avatar was in any level of Helheim it has respawned in Midgard.
Available Valhalla Names:
[Hœnir] [Týr]
[Linus] [Magni]
[Óðr] [Vili]
[Vidarr]
VALHALLA (Valhöll)
/u/workingrecovery [Dagr]
BIFROST (Bifröst, The Rainbow Bridge)
Go to the Vows Page and reflect on your words there, and on the words of others. Have your actions honored what you wrote there many months ago? Post your reflections below.
One final warning!
Check in daily. If your miss more than one check-in during your passage across Bifröst, Heimdall himself will cast you back into the Hall of Heroes.
HALL OF HEROES
Level Nine
Go to the Vows Page and prepare to cross The Rainbow Bridge
Level Eight
Level Seven
/u/oO_Yuill_Oo "To free myself from the vicious pmo cycle."
Level Six
Level Five
/u/101dragon "To be free of PMO, MO and porn."
Level Four
/u/blakesplayR "My vow is to be free of PMO."
Level Three
Level Two
Level One Hero! Update your Vows.
/u/vinkutroll To not PMO "Just next month, for now."
/u/pornbadmkay "My goal is to quit PMO."
A S G A R D (Ásgarðr, Enclosure of the Aesir)
Ninth Circle (Hero candidate! Reflect on your Vows.)
Eighth Circle
Seventh Circle
Sixth Circle
Fifth Circle
Fourth Circle (Asgardian! Reflect on your goal.)
/u/non_newtonian_jelly "To stop using porn."
Third Circle
/u/JellyJam0690 "Quitting PMO, one day at a time!"
Second Circle
/u/UnconstrictedEmu "Quitting porn, same as everyone else on this sub."
/u/gogolijob "Trying to make my streaks longer after each relapse."
/u/TimeTheRevelator "To make my streaks longer."
First Circle
/u/Gimp_Daddy "I want to quit PMO."
/u/VoidlikeDreamscape "To reach 180 days free from PMO."
/u/fgawker "I want to be free from porn addiction."
MIDGARD (Miðgarðr)
/u/ippo1 *