The ThoughtWatcher, and ThoughtManaging; Manage Your Thoughts, Manage Your Life ...

By: Jack OdinSky-Od
January , 1997

     Consciousness requires, no demands, an Observer ... for consciousness is awareness, and awareness requires observation, and observation requires an Observer.
We are all aware of our Thoughts even as we are thinking them. We are all aware of our activities even as we are doing them. This suggests that there is an aspect of us that is always observing, watching, all we think, and all we do. This observer aspect, of who we are, this ever present watcher of our activities, and our Thoughts, is who I have named the ThoughtWatcher, and its ever present function is ThoughtWatching. Therefore, ThoughtWatching is a natural, effortless process that is occurring with or without our conscious awareness. All we need to do is allow our Attention to be with it more often, the more often we are with our “ThoughtWatcher”, the more benefits it will reveal to us.


     Interacting with two or more people or in an intense activity, obviously poses a great challenge for practicing ThoughtWatching.  What I discovered here was that by listening intently to each party speaking, I was ThoughtWatching. How often was I prepared in my mind to answer someone, or make a comment before they finished their statement? So listening intently, slowed down the need to respond too quickly in a conversation, and allowed ThoughtWatching, and, a more respectful conversation, and response. When in an intense activity if we put our attention into the activity we usually lose our attention in watching our Thoughts; this requires more discipline, and we need to remember to keep our body in view, and/or  listen to our breath, while also giving our attention to the activity, this takes practice, but has a big reward.


     Thoughts are personality specific, every time there is a Thought, there is a personality. Personalities are the actors in our life that we get to play by choosing a certain role that is; (father, mother, son, daughter, student, friend, worker etc).  Now the ThoughtWatching exercise changes, and the focus is, what personality is here Now?  And what Thoughts are Necessary, and Appropriate in this moment for this activity?  A question may come to mind now, what is the practice of ThoughtWatching? It begs an answer; understanding how our thinking works, and realizing how inefficient it is, and how often it produces poor outcomes. While contemplating these questions, and the realization that something is needed to improve our thinking process.  The idea of ThoughtManagement was born in January, 1997, What I actually started doing as a result of ThoughtWatching was ThoughtManaging. It was obvious Now that if we could only engage useful, appropriate, purposeful, and creative Thoughts throughout the day, we could save a lot of wasted time, and Energy, be more peaceful, more focused, with many more successful outcomes. WOW! How great would that be?

What is Your Life?

By Jack OdinSky-Od
Sunday, June 20, 2010


Life is experience. Each Moment you are given a choice to Experience; you make your selection by giving Your Attention to one of the experiences presented to you in the Moment, and You Now Experience it. Your Life at any Moment is the Sum Total of All those Experiences.


Just review Your Life, and you will realize that it is the choices you have made each Moment, and the experiences you encountered that attached to you as Your Life. Whether it’s the food you eat, the work you do, the school, subjects, major, The friends you have chosen, the clothes you wear, your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, number of children, the belief system you have chosen or just accepted … all have become an integral part of you, and what you call Your Life.


How did you make those choices?  You made those choices by giving Your Attention to The experience you wanted, and it became attached to you in the Moment of Experiencing it … you cannot name anything in Your Life that was not an Experience you chose by giving Your Attention to it - except things that happened by accident. Accidents are experiences usually caused by you or others that in the Moment you are associated with, by choice or circumstances, and you or they were not “Paying Attention”. However, you still made a choice to “Pay Attention,” or not “Pay Attention,” to be at the place of the accident or be at another place, it was your choice.


To get what you want in Life, You Must Pay … Attention, that is the price for getting the chosen Experience, you Pay … Attention. How important is Attention? Attention is the Energy you use to Experience, and make that Experience part of Your Energy, Your Life.

SO MANY THOUGHTS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD...

      So Many Thoughts running through My Head, Thoughts in Review, Thoughts of the Past, Thoughts of the Future, and Thoughts of What To Do;
       
     So Many Thoughts running through My Head, so Fast do they Appear that I hardly have time to Engage them here; to Ask, What Purpose have you here in My Head?
       
    So Many Thoughts running through My Head, I finally Engage one to Say; What good are you, that happened yesterday, and cannot be the same today; 
      and then another Appeared so Fast, but, I Managed to Stop it, and Say; but youʼre about Tomorrow, and to far away for me to Say, Absolutely, Letʼs do that Today...
The possibilities for “ThoughtMangament” 
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