![]() You’ve probably heard the phrase, “What you put into an experience, you get out of an experience”. However, this often involves an active decision on your part to focus on the present moment. In choosing to actively concentrate on the present, we direct both our subconscious and conscious minds back to reality, surrounding people, and present opportunities. If we’re constantly thinking about somewhere we are not, the subconscious mind will focus on this without us even realizing it. Due to the mind’s nature, it can be a challenge to solely reflect, sit in stillness and just think. Simply put: the mind doesn’t like to be still, it likes to be engaged through this constant absorption of surrounding stimuli. Our mind is constantly stimulated by the outside world, supplying all kinds of sensory details including sights, sounds, and a plethora of uncontrollable factors. Whether it be choosing our preferences, answering questions, gathering information or communicating, we process information every day in order to make decisions. Your subconscious gathered enough information to be able to guide you into making the right choice.ĭespite the influential subconscious mind, we still have the ability to make conscious choices. Have you ever made a “gut-decision” but couldn’t quite articulate why you made this choice – it was just your instinct? Your subconscious mind is responsible for this seemingly intuitive kind of response. This part of the brain stores memories and experiences, and therefore has access to decision-making information faster than the conscious mind. What most people don’t realize is just how powerful the subconscious mind actually is in forming our judgements and perceptions. It will take true mindfulness to reshape these thought patterns. We all seem to spend too much time thinking about the past and the future, and it’s very difficult not to. Focusing on either one obsessively, however, quickly becomes deteriorating to our mental and emotional health. Reflecting on the past can also provide healing and closure. Living in the moment could change your life for the better, so why do you lose yourself to your thoughts on what’s next or worry about what’s happening elsewhere? Looking to the future can provide hope, especially through difficult times. ![]() The present, however, is often lost on us. Reflection and contemplation encompass the past. ![]() By Kelly-Grace Struble Updated August 21, 2018
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