http://aphinya.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/i-have-remembered-it-again/ how I am aligning myself with my life purposes Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://aphinya.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/i-have-remembered-it-again/#comment-146 Aphinya Deley Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:53:00 +0000 http://aphinya.wordpress.com/?p=206#comment-146 You are doing just awesome!! You are doing just awesome!!

]]> http://aphinya.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/i-have-remembered-it-again/#comment-145 Green Curry Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:06:55 +0000 http://aphinya.wordpress.com/?p=206#comment-145 It's cool that I just read this tonight. Only a few hours ago I had a flash of insight into what it would mean if we could very intentionally, with surgical precision, choose what and when we want to forget something. But the beauty of this insight was not that it would mean that we can retain a coveted memory, rather it was that we could choose to release for all time a memory that does not serve us well. What a magnificent feeling it was to even imagine that! Although it is impossible for me to know a true figure, any given person might have about 30 to 60 thoughts per minute, depending on the conditions of the day. At that rate, we nearly reach 1 billion thoughts by the time we are 30, counting night time when we dream with unconscious compulsive thought. With a clinical analysis, how many of those thoughts that flow at 1 thought/second do you think are helpful, beneficial? I suspect that it is an atrociously low number for the majority of people, even if they are thinking at a slower rate. Those compulsive thoughts will be dominated by what might be likened to meaningless scrap or even decomposing waste. The worst of it is that usually there is a theme, or likely many different themes running at the same time. The theme strings thoughts together like a needle and thread. What happens when you knit needle and thread? You get a sock or some other functional bit of clothing. So a theme of thought allows a great number of minuscule thoughts to build up into something big and functional. But it can easily be functionally destructive. The same thought/theme, thunk too many times becomes either a wonderful new sweater or a bumpy railroad track that steers the rest of your life. And now back to the point. If we could choose a theme that does not serve us well, see it for all it's harmful nature and then consciously decide to eliminate it, thereby removing all potential for the theme to reoccur, what a gift that would be! If a thought had mass, 1 billion thoughts would be pretty heavy! The more of those dedicated to a theme lets that theme gain weight, and the more mass, the more the theme draws in fresh thought. Neuroscientists say, "Cells that fire together, wire together." I can only imagine the baggage that I could get rid of if I had such a skill, leading perhaps to enlightenment, the ultimate state of weightlessness. So my view was quite a different take on the workings and implications of memory, and an uncommon escape from my typical perspective that is exactly as you expressed in your story. "Why can't I just remember that?!?" It’s cool that I just read this tonight. Only a few hours ago I had a flash of insight into what it would mean if we could very intentionally, with surgical precision, choose what and when we want to forget something. But the beauty of this insight was not that it would mean that we can retain a coveted memory, rather it was that we could choose to release for all time a memory that does not serve us well. What a magnificent feeling it was to even imagine that! Although it is impossible for me to know a true figure, any given person might have about 30 to 60 thoughts per minute, depending on the conditions of the day. At that rate, we nearly reach 1 billion thoughts by the time we are 30, counting night time when we dream with unconscious compulsive thought. With a clinical analysis, how many of those thoughts that flow at 1 thought/second do you think are helpful, beneficial? I suspect that it is an atrociously low number for the majority of people, even if they are thinking at a slower rate. Those compulsive thoughts will be dominated by what might be likened to meaningless scrap or even decomposing waste. The worst of it is that usually there is a theme, or likely many different themes running at the same time. The theme strings thoughts together like a needle and thread. What happens when you knit needle and thread? You get a sock or some other functional bit of clothing. So a theme of thought allows a great number of minuscule thoughts to build up into something big and functional. But it can easily be functionally destructive. The same thought/theme, thunk too many times becomes either a wonderful new sweater or a bumpy railroad track that steers the rest of your life. And now back to the point. If we could choose a theme that does not serve us well, see it for all it’s harmful nature and then consciously decide to eliminate it, thereby removing all potential for the theme to reoccur, what a gift that would be! If a thought had mass, 1 billion thoughts would be pretty heavy! The more of those dedicated to a theme lets that theme gain weight, and the more mass, the more the theme draws in fresh thought. Neuroscientists say, “Cells that fire together, wire together.” I can only imagine the baggage that I could get rid of if I had such a skill, leading perhaps to enlightenment, the ultimate state of weightlessness. So my view was quite a different take on the workings and implications of memory, and an uncommon escape from my typical perspective that is exactly as you expressed in your story. “Why can’t I just remember that?!?”

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