Thought Row Blog — mind

    Hurried and Flurried and Frustrated and Excited?: What about you? No need to guess here. If you're present with any reasonable amount of rational thinking, you will no doubt uncomfortably fit into one or more of those questions. Our cluttered minds: Live as we must in our heads all the time, even when we sleep, thoughts rule. Look for an escape? Well if you think about it you really don't want one. Everything we are and everything we will ever be starts the thoughts in our minds. Our thoughts can get a little jumbled sometimes, and rob you...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, For Sure, Speak No Evil: What's going on here? HUH? Where are your thoughts going today, based on what happened to you personally in all of your yesterdays? Meaning no disrespect to the Japanese pictorial maxim, the three wise monkeys that go by the names Mizaur, the see no evil monkey. Kikazaru, who hears no evil. And Iwazaru, who keeps his mouth shut and speaks no evil. I made the leap into a slightly more contemporary version. Thinking more about a good mind is a healthy mind. One that manages to avoid thoughts that...

Thinking Is Not What You Think:  I can hear you saying to yourself, “Oh Really, I've been thinking to myself all my life." And yes, that truly is the case. But if you're like me, you have a whole array of thinking thoughts that have been accumulated from a jillion jumbled sources. The abundance of those mostly useless thoughts starts to bunch up, fundamentally robbing you of the capacity of thinking pure creative thoughts. When you spend all of your waking hours contributing to random thinking, it becomes draining, and, not so surprisingly, can have a profound impact on everything from...

Stirring the Emotionalism in Art: What makes you emotional? Sadness brings it on. Happiness brings it on. Seeing brings it on. Hearing brings it on. A work of art can do many things to your emotions. Looking at a painting or touching a sculpture invariably causes a welling up of emotions, from happy and inspired to angry and repulsed. . Art is magic. It possesses the ability to stir up an emotional response. You may like it, or you may hate it. It's amazingly objective and not too subtle in doing its intended stirring. Art invokes attention and shows no...

Legit Thinking is not Second-Guessing Your Profound Observations: In the classic movie Gone With the Wind. The principal character, Scarlett O'Hara, repeated her now-famous quote, “ I’ll think about it tomorrow.“ I've always thought of that comment as being a profound and legitimate thought. In our lives, we often spend way too much time worrying. Stressing us out! And ultimately robbing us of feeling happy and content within our own mind and soul. Instead of creating anxiety with compulsive, repetitive, obsessive thinking, and of course, racing thoughts. Wouldn't it be wonderful to stop all that mental draining madness? And simply...