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It has really come home to me recently (and the comments helped with this) that I haven’t tied what I have been talking about to an old topic around here - defragging.
If your computer starts underperforming or starts throwing errors, it’s a good idea to defragment your hard drive. If you’ve been installing and uninstalling programs or making other big changes, it’s a good idea to defragment. Last but not least, it’s a good idea simply for preventative maintenance. The same can be said of us.
If you’ve just gone through a major change in your life, or things are not working out as they should be (all things being equal), then a defrag session might be in order. This article is the first in a small series devoted to various factors , hinderances, and techniques devoted to defragging your mind, and letting your spirit forge the way.
In the next few articles, I’m going to be discussing the stuff that can easily collect and clutter our minds, some symptoms to watch for, and some tools and techniques I’ve found and use that put me and keep me on top of my game (and keep me going higher, for that matter.)
What’s coming up next: attachments and aversions.
First up, we have attachments and aversions. Two sides of the same coin, as I’ll go into in the upcoming articles. Before we get there, let me ask you this simple question:
Have you ever been so overwrought with emotion over expecting a bad thing to happen, that if and when it did, you were surprised that it wasn’t as big a deal as you thought?
Medical procedures when we are kids are a famous example. Doctor’s offices are scary, or at least were when I was a kid. I learned, over much time, that it was my strong aversion to the place that was giving me such a bad time whenever we went there.
Conversely, being emotionally invested in the outcome of some event is a famously bad idea. There is some controversy over how the handling of the recently shot President Lincoln was handled. Some believed that the physicians were so attached to the outcome, that the medical care the president received was of substandard quality. (However: it’s generally accepted that the odds weren’t good with modern medicine executed perfectly.)
Keep your eyes open and see what attachments and aversions you find. You may just free yourself from some needless suffering in the process.
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