Comments on: Has your Analytical Mind Taken Over Your Life?

By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:54:08 +0000

Hi Marc, the analytical mind can be a real bully sometimes. Learning to be fully present in the moment can certainly be challenging. Try visualizing an on off switch that controls the processor, then play with it and see what happens.

By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:47:48 +0000

Hi Galen, isn’t it nice that we have both? The power seems to be in the ability to harmonize them and then make a conscious choice. Sounds like you’ve been able to do that quite well.

By: Marc Luber

Marc Luber — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:12:31 +0000

Hi Jonathan – great post! This topic is a major struggle for me every day. You articulated it really well. About a year ago I discovered yoga and have found this to be really helpful on many levels, including dealing with this issue. It takes about 20-25 minutes into the 90 minute class for the thinking side of my mind to turn off, but once it does I’m a happy camper. For the first 20 minutes my thinking side is usually saying, “It’s not going to work this time. I knew it. I’ve gotta get back to my desk to do x, y, and z…” and suddenly I’m lost in the moment and next thing I know the class is ending. I only find time for this twice a month but am trying to make it happen at least weekly. Great post!
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By: Galen Pearl

Galen Pearl — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:31:58 +0000

For much of my life, I lived in my head. No accident that I became a lawyer! I discounted my intuition when it conflicted with my rational mind. In more recent times, however, I have shifted to the middle, or even a bit more on the intuitive side. I think of my analytic skills as a tool rather than as a Bible. If analysis conflicts with intuition, these days intuition wins.
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By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:58:23 +0000

Hey James, it’s a modern day plague. Our minds can drive us nuts if we don’t learn to quiet them.

By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:57:02 +0000

This is hard to grasp M, but many times letting go of wanting to know the answer will get your mind out of the way and allow the answer to show up. Over thinking never leads to answers, just more questions.

By: M

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:00:02 +0000

Hehe, it seems so impossible! I’m definitely a prisoner of my own mind at this point – the thoughts are running fast. I’m not sure why I want to understand everything I do – doubts about nature and it’s course is the big theme, but there are so many other little things I can think of. I feel like I’m stifling who I am, and there’s no way out. I’m so completely out of the moment, always. But thanks for the post Jonathan, I was glad to see that some can relate! I will practice what you’ve suggested.

By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:57:34 +0000

Hi M, trying to understand why we do everything is definitely an analytical state. Try letting go of wanting to know why and don’t over think the letting go process. Practice exhaling your thoughts and breathing in quiet. Sounds silly I know, but give it a try for 10 minutes and see what happens.