I am sure you have heard that we have around 80,000 thoughts a day. The huge problem is that 80% of them are the same thoughts you had yesterday and most of them are negative. Do you think that might cause a problem? Do you think that could steal your happiness? If you havent heard that google it. You will find it written a thousand times a thousand different places. It is what you are doing right now. You are asking yourself, “what is he talking about?” We talk to ourselves incessantly. That is literally the foundation of everything, “self help”. Lets test my theory. Meditation; duh. The goal is to get you to quiet your mind’s incessant chatter. Affirmations; the goal is to at least say positive things. Positive thinking; the goal is to think positive things. Anthony Robbins ( biggest self help guru you know the big guy) He goes through the plethora of things you tell yourself, your beliefs etc. Heck there are even books on self talk. I should ask AI how many books are written to address self talk. In one form or another, they all address self talk. What are you doing when you set goals? You are talking to yourself.

I have a novel idea, I havent seen anywhere. What if you spent one day without repeating a single thought you have had before. Think about that. There is no reason to repeat a thought from yesterday, the day before, and so on and so on. If there are things you have to do, just do it. Just stop repetitive talking to yourself. So now you are challenging your mind to actually “Think” with a capital T. I wrote about this previously. Babbling to yourself in anyone’s world can not possibly pass for thinking. The only place babbling to yourself incessantly is common is in an insane asylum. Worse yet if you are doing it in public. Are you any different, if you are calling up your friends every day and saying how about that Donald Trump or how about that Joe Biden? Or if you are simply repeating your money or health worries from yesterday? Seriously people, get a life.

Its funny I “let go” of so much with the Sedona Method, that my mind is extremely quiet. Yes I have some serious challenges with work that has me playing different options and decisions that are not black and white today. But for the most part, I dont talk to myself, not too much, LOL. When it gets real quiet, I start to “Think”, I write. Its when I wrote most of this blog. I think of things like this idea to have a day with only “thinking,” no vomiting repetitive thoughts. God only knows what will come to mind. And I mean that literally and figuratively. Where is this writing coming from? I am just spontaneously writing, or so it seems to me. We have a lot we can think about. In fact where is our thinking coming from, is easily one of the things to think about.

Maybe all of the great ideas and inventions of the past few hundred years of civilization came in moments of stillness when certain people were able to access the part of their mind where original thinking comes from. Or maybe the stillness allows the reception of collective consciousness, or even “God” in whatever way you choose to see the intelligence outside of yourself. In fact, I cant even believe how cohesively and seamlessly I am writing this, or am I? I am really impressed with this thought. I will have to ask others how they understand what I am saying

For me, I am going to spend the rest of the day in quiet “contemplation” allowing myself to have real thinking. Its almost like a living meditation. Being so quiet that maybe magic can happen. I am standing guard at my mind not allowing any thought I have had before to enter. Just like when you are meditating and when a “thought” comes by you just let it pass without giving it any attention. If a repetitive thought presents itself I am merely letting it gently pass without paying any attention to it. And why should that only happen while you meditate? Why not stand guard all day? Am I the only one that entertains repetitive thoughts? Or am I the only one recognizing and suggesting that we live without entertaining repetitive thoughts? Like, while we meditate, but constantly, throughout the day while we are awake.

Maybe tonight I might plan tomorrow and what my next steps are with my current overwhelming issue. But for the rest of the day I am going to enjoy my meditative state of “being” Perhaps that is another way of “being” Or maybe that is, the way to “be.” Or maybe, that is the path to “being.” Or maybe we should call “living in the now,” simply a human “being,” vs a human “thinking” small t. And are you actually being, if you are thinking BS ( repetitive thoughts)? Again my proposal is to either “be” or you can “Think” ideate, create. The only thing I am suggesting with this exercise it that you merely do not allow a single repetitive thought to be entertained. I know, no mere task. It is actually monumental, if you can experience a whole day without a single one of your 80,000 repetitive thoughts, from yesterday, hijacking your brain and, by the way, your happiness. It was also noted that most of those repetitive thoughts are negative. So there should be a plethora of benefits if you can spend your days without entertaining repetitive thoughts.

I will have to search to see if I am the only one suggesting this, because there are a lot of famous people out there that I listen to. I have yet to hear anyone suggest you even try to do this. They suggest meditating and positive thinking and visualizing. No one that I have heard, in my 40 plus years, reading self help, has ever suggested to merely try to live a day without entertaining a repetitive thought. No old thoughts allowed, only new thoughts. Good luck I will have to open the comments. PS I just found some moron suggesting blank mind is a problem. Not so fast Bozo. Pretty much every single one of us suffer from entertaining the same repetitive 80,000 thoughts pretty much every day of their life. That might be a bigger problem. Maybe people like Elon Musk and Thomas Edison are not repetitive thought monkeys. I doubt they would have the time to invent anything if there mind is merely repeating the same thoughts as yesterday. Think about how insane we have all been merely repeating the same thoughts every day. I will report back. This could be monumental. I might have to create a whole course around this if I succeed, and especially if it changes my life as I imagine it would.

Maybe I should ask a few friends to take the challenge. We might have to refine it, ie you are only allowed repetitive worrying thoughts for one hour a day, preferably early evening when you are preparing for the next day. This way you can tell yourself, as I am doing today, ” I can let that thought pass because I will make plans early this evening” vs just self flagellating by repeating my very serious decision I have to make this week. I also say that because I want to return to “no thoughts” before sleep.