Flagon With The Dragon

You are what you think

// April 6th, 2009 // Fluff

The idea of how minds change has been in my thoughts quiet a bit lately and it’s become a reoccuring theme in many different areas of my life, as things tend to do.  I’ve mostly been contemplating how my thoughts have changed over the last 9 months, and how or if that’s changed my fundamental way of thinking.  Many of you know it’s been a year of pretty big changes for me and through it I have been incredibly mindful that how I came out of this was a great unknown, but still in my hands to shape somewhat.

The number of changes have been dramatic and largely unexpected.  I’m a much more positive person in general now than I was a year ago, I’m much more relaxed and anger has largely gone out of my life, at least compared to previously.    I’m still coming to terms with exactly what is contributing to all these changes, in small ways it’s a contious effort though. I meditate regularly, I have gotten good at turning my thoughts in a particular direction or another and I regularly stay away from particular sets that would give me a more brooding cast than in the past.

I don’t really want to do a retrospective on what’s causing the change as I want to take a moment to be a bit amazed at the very concept of a mind changing in the first place.  Biochemistry is a wonderful thing but there are times (like now) where it’s hard to sit there viewing the mind as a biochemical engine of thought and the implications of what it means that a bunch of chemicals could “decide” to change.   Think about that for a second, a system, even a dynamic one, is sitting there doing what it does and begins to change with a purpose.  If we saw this happen in a beaker we’d talk directly about it being a proof of God.  I’m not trying to use this as such because the system I’m trying to describe is a vast over-simplification.  Still though sit there for a moment and contemplate the reality of mind deciding to change itself.

I find the whole thing rather amazing at this moment and wish more people could realize just how plastic our minds can be.  How we can shape them more than we give ourselves credit for and that we’re not just trapped in there with ourselves, or perhaps that we are but that we can be better company than we realize.

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