I wonder how the most important things we do require no thought process at all. For instance, we walk without thinking on how to walk, we learn to walk without thinking, we just aim to walk and that is how we learned and how we continue walking now. We see, we smell, we kiss, we eat, and most of the times we just do it, we never say " Ohh, I am going to eat, and for that I have to take the food and put it into my mouth and if it is a big chunk then we chew it and then we swallow", nope, we do not do that, we just do it as it goes.
Is it because we have done it too many times and it has gotten to be automatic. Well, it could be but then again we learned many of this automatic things when we were babies, and certainly we did not think about how we were supposed to do these things, we just did it until we perfected it. There was never fear of walking, we kept doing it until we got it mastered.
Thinking for a minute just about walking; we realize that it can be a pretty scary action. We continuously allow ourselves to fall until we stop the fall we one of our feet, and the we do it again and we stop it with the other foot. Incredibly we mastered this without thought.
As we grow older our mind starts talking control of our actions and everything else. It always wants to know how things are supposed to be done, step by step, thinking that it is the only way to learn and understand.
And you, the master of walking, eating and other thoughtless actions, believe that this is true. Forgetting that you already understand much of the world without knowing how but just surely knowing.
Because of this belief in our mind demands, we many times feel fear. The lack of step by step process, in many cases, makes our mind contraint us from pursuing something. As we get fear that there is no way I can reach the objective for sure or that we can get harmed in the unknown quest.
When we were babies we never thought that we were not going to talk or walk, we just aimed for it every time, and if it had not happened within the time we were mind-free we would have not given up, we would have continued pursuing such aim. Why? Well, our mind had not taken over, and therefore we did not believe it or it could not tell us we were not good enough, or that there is no way to do this, we do not have a manual; or if you continue trying at this pace you won't get anywhere; you have failed at something everyone does in no time and many other fearful thoughts.
When we are babies, our mind is mainly a servant, which we can use to visualize, explore and question. But we do not use it to destroy or to put things into boxes by defining them.
I have been wondering about this, the thought process overuse. It seems to me that all of us overindulge in thinking about everything and anything. To me, it seems that we can get to save a lot of energy if we start discerning when thinking is useful and when it is just in your way.
It seems to me now that thinking can be useful for planning, to explore and question, but not for doing, enjoy or being.
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