Remember the music record, the analog precursor to the digital CD?
Our personal "life narratives" are like the grooves in an old-school record.
They establish recurring paths and continuities in our lives. All is good on this level.
But there are also circumstances that evoke thoughts, ways of seeing, that are disruptive, and incongruent to realizing our DESIRED outcomes.
If we manifest this way of being, and allow such thoughts to take root, then we are succumbing to discursive thinking.
Discursive thoughts are the proverbial scratches on the record.
They are trap doors that, like a record skip on a scratched record, take you to somewhere OTHER than where you WANT to go.
They may stem from unexpressed or active, resident fears.
They may rise from real, present circumstances that you, nonetheless, have a plan for dealing with.
Having already sweat the details, you need not be consumed by such thoughts.
So how to recognize discursive thoughts, and not be tripped up by them?
For one, be present, live in the here and now.
That means being an "adult," and seeing things as they really are.
This includes the discipline of taking "inventory" from time to time.
After all, carving a desired path takes force and energy.
It takes clarity, action and a coherent plan.
But, as long as you still have a heart beat, you are still credibly in it.
And, as everyone knows, to WIN it, you gotta be in it.
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