Some people are held captive by a single feeling. One feeling that makes them afraid to do anything, afraid to go outside, and causes them to freeze.
It’s such a shame. One feeling that is literally hanging around you, that you are immersed in, and that starts making decisions for you.
Or worse: you constantly feel that you have to do things. That feeling makes you run around 24/7, because otherwise you feel useless.
When you sit down and do nothing, you kind of put the brain into default mode, and then it’s easier to decipher. So the pros don’t do it like that. You do it in motion. But it’s still good to say what happens when you don’t do anything, and how that affects your working memory compared to being in motion.
For a lot of people, the goal of life is simply living a life. So consciousness is, in a sense, a little bit of an enthusiastic hobby. You’re just really curious about how everything works.
But sitting down and breathing your thoughts away seems pretty pointless to me. When you sit down, you can see the default mode as a still image, like a painting.
A Story That Swings
Normally, you have a brilliant, narrative, dancing way of thinking. That thing that was already there, and what your purpose in life is—the thing you can’t explain.
Tunnel vision – sometimes pleasant
When you’re on medication, your perspective becomes narrower, like looking through a tunnel, which can sometimes feel quite pleasant. In a way, the total number of options available to you becomes narrower too.
Start in the Chaos
Do you know the game Mikado? If you want to decipher the brain, this is probably the best way to start. You begin with total chaos, and then you dismantle your thoughts one by one. That’s how you learn to understand your brain from the inside. You can, for example, see which two thoughts keep colliding with each other.
This is very useful when something isn’t going well: you simply go inside your own head.
Yes, you really can do this.