Different Thinking for Different Times - Season 3 Episode 39

Different thinking for different times.

In July 2020 an NPR segment on Understanding Unconscious Bias reports, "The human brain can process 11 million bits of information every second. But our conscious minds can handle only 40 to 50 bits of information a second."

Rev. Dr. Petra Weldes writes, "Our lives are so overly filled with stimulation and our attention taken up by so much input that our minds and our spirit have precious little breathing room from which to respond from our spiritual awareness.

We respond often to the "automatic thought", the "acorn brain" (as I call it) which is our "default pattern", our unconscious habits and patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving without thinking. We respond from our "story" that we tell ourselves is true. However small-minded that belief may be, without questioning our answers, we continue to gather evidence to prove our story is true and make others wrong who look or sound different.

Overcoming small-minded, limited thinking can benefit one who begins to question their answers as Osho wrote in his book "Your Answers Questioned." Begin the journey into limitless, Infinite thinking and prove to yourself that you can live an expansive life that includes acceptance, dialogue, and compromise with the goal of leaving everything and everyone a little better than we find them.

Gratefully yours, Steve