Stopping thinking

Right Now said:
You are planning to stop thinking to save your memory? That only works with techie things.

Have you not heard "Use it or lose it?"
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That's right. The brain is like a muscle, and if you don't "exercise" it, it will deteriorate...especially as we age. Puzzles, games, and anything that makes a person think is helpful in staving off things like dementia and Alzheimer's.
 
Stopping thinking is a common practice in meditation. "Stilling the mind" can be googled to get information and support for that type of meditation. In my experience stilling the mind is very valuable. During times of excessive nervousness and run away thoughts it is helpful to have a method to calm the mental roof noise. Transcendental Meditation, that was so famous, used a technique of reciting a short mantra/word until the mind was completely at rest.
 
I have found something interesting lately ... my awake 'daytime' thinking is getting a little muddled as far as making precise decisions go ....
not getting clear answers to everyday issues like I really want.

BUT .... while asleep at night, I've had some very interesting and good thoughts come to me, about how to handle things that have evaded me while awake ... In the past few months it has happened at least a half a dozen times.
I wake up, and go right to fixing what came to me in my sleep. Amazing!

I really feel like I am being helped ..... I'll leave it at that.
 
oldaunt said:
Wow. Glad I don't have a smartphone.
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I have one but finding it, and actually using it already overtaxes my mind. Without my kids (in their 60's) and grandkids nearby, I'm ashamed to say that I'm lost when trying to use it for anything beyond a basic call or to listen to some music on You Tube.

Almost forgot - - -it makes a handy flashlight.
 
Pepper said:
That won't do it! :ROFLMAO:
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Are you sure? One of my totally non-scientific and completely unsupported theories has always been that we had room in our brains for only so many memories. Once full as new ones came in old ones had to be erased. Not sure how well its been working for me, I don't seem to have much control over which ones are lost. And the room seems to be getting smaller.
oldaunt said:
Glad I don't have a smartphone.
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I do, problem is the operator is not so smart...
 
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Just this past week my husband and I each experienced night brain vs morning brain.

My son's window was stuck closed, the locking mechanism wouldn't move. I fiddled and fiddled, gave up and went to bed. The next morning I walked into his room went to the window and easily opened it. With my husband, it was a baffling problem with the bathroom basin's drain pipe. The next morning it was an easy fix.

Just as I've noticed I get about an inch shorted from morning to night. I think I lose about 20 IQ points as the day wears on.
 
Many years ago, when I was in the Army as a Huey combat helicopter crew-chief before going to the Vietnam War I was given classes on how to stop thinking among other things. Like say if we crash landed in the helicopter and survived it, we were given basic infantry training so if we met up with an infantry platoon and the Sargant or Lieutenant told us to do something we would know how to do it. Part of the training I found very interesting was how to stop thinking and how to stop feeling emotions and how to become invisible. For to hide yourself from the enemy you would stop thinking and just observe, stop feeling and having emotions for if you can the enemy likely would not pick up on your excited brain waves and subconsciously pick up that there is someone near them. Then to turn completely invisible find a place like trees or rocks to hide by then do not move a muscle be completely still and breath in and out very slowly. I used this in Vietnam and still doo to this day. It is amazing how well it works for sometimes while sitting in a room with other people when I do this, I become invisible, and others cannot see me.
 
Alligatorob said:
Are you sure? One of my totally non-scientific and completely unsupported theories has always been that we had room in our brains for only so many memories. Once full as new ones came in old ones had to be erased. Not sure how well its been working for me, I don't seem to have much control over which ones are lost. And the room seems to be getting smaller.

I do, problem is the operator is not so smart...
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Is it possible that there is a sort of cloud storage, where all old memories are kept until resurrected?
 
"Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute." -- Dostoevsky
 
Paco Dennis said:
Stopping thinking is a common practice in meditation. "Stilling the mind" can be googled to get information and support for that type of meditation. In my experience stilling the mind is very valuable. During times of excessive nervousness and run away thoughts it is helpful to have a method to calm the mental roof noise. Transcendental Meditation, that was so famous, used a technique of reciting a short mantra/word until the mind was completely at rest.
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I still practice TM. Twice a day, more often if I am ill, or under enormous stress.
 
oldaunt said:
Wow. Glad I don't have a smartphone.
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I have had a so called smart phone for eleven years. It's far too smart for me. It took me a year to figure out texting, a year later I found that it had a flashlight but how it connects to the internet goes right over my head. Smart phones and apps are modern day gobble-de-gook.
Have you ever seen that book titled: "Windows for Dummies?" I need a book titled: "How to understand Windows for Dummies.
 
The TMS treatments I am getting are literally altering the way my brain processes information. I reviewed my childhood trauma, the perpetuator and thee aftereffects. I am trying to change the narrative of my story from blame to gain. Stop blaming a dead man for something that happened when I was 16. If I could have bounced back and recovered as if nothing happened maybe I would not have hated my dad and myself.
TMS treatments are building healthy neuron connections. Sometimes I don't know myself because I don't think like I used to, I'm not depressed.
 
Bonnie said:
I have found something interesting lately ... my awake 'daytime' thinking is getting a little muddled as far as making precise decisions go ....
not getting clear answers to everyday issues like I really want.

BUT .... while asleep at night, I've had some very interesting and good thoughts come to me, about how to handle things that have evaded me while awake ... In the past few months it has happened at least a half a dozen times.
I wake up, and go right to fixing what came to me in my sleep. Amazing!

I really feel like I am being helped ..... I'll leave it at that.
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........same here, Bonnie.
 

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