Trash Absentmindedness Now!
Author: Joseph Plazo
You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform
actions unconsciously, without thinking. There is a distinct
difference between seeing and observing - we see with our eyes,
but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when
performing an action, there can be no observation; more
important, there can be no original awareness. Absentmindedness
is probably the most widespread of minor self-annoyances.
Although it plagues most of us, it seems particularly to affect
the elderly. The techniques we'll discuss here have succeeded in
eliminating absentmindedness for countless people, including the
elderly.
To some people, absentmindedness may seem to be a trivial
problem. Perhaps they don't realize how much time, energy, and
aggravation they spend on searching for items they "just put
down for a moment," or on worrying about whether they have
turned off the oven, locked the door, unplugged the iron, or on
retrieving items they have left in trains, buses, cars, offices,
and friends' homes.
The solution to the problem of absentmindedness is both simple
and obvious: All you have to do is to be sure to think of what
you're doing during the moment in which you're doing it, That's
all, but obviously it's easier said than done. How can you be
sure to force yourself to think of a minor action at the moment
you're doing it?
There's only one way, and that is by using association. Since
association forces Original Awareness - and since being
Originally Aware is the same as having something register in
your mind in the first place, at the moment it occurs - then
forming an instant association must solve the problem of
absentmindedness.
Let's use a quick example: You're writing at your desk and the
phone rings. As you reach for the phone, you place the pencil
behind your ear, or in your hair. The phone call is finished -
that took only a few minutes - but now you waste time searching
for the pencil that's perched behind your ear. Would you like to
avoid that aggravation? Well then, the next time the phone rings
and you start to place the pencil behind your ear, make a fast
mental picture in your mind. Actually "see" the pencil going
into your ear - all the way.
The idea may make you shudder, but when you think of that
pencil, you'll know where it is. That silly association of
seeing the pencil go into your ear forced you to think of two
things in a fraction of a second: 1) the pencil, and 2) where
you were putting it. Problem solved! Solved, that is, if you
make an association each time you put down your pencil, wherever
you put it. Just make it a habit. Keep the idea in mind the
first few times, force yourself to form the associations, and
after that it will become habitual.
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actions unconsciously, without thinking. There is a distinct
difference between seeing and observing - we see with our eyes,
but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when
performing an action, there can be no observation; more
important, there can be no original awareness. Absentmindedness
is probably the most widespread of minor self-annoyances.
Although it plagues most of us, it seems particularly to affect
the elderly. The techniques we'll discuss here have succeeded in
eliminating absentmindedness for countless people, including the
elderly.
To some people, absentmindedness may seem to be a trivial
problem. Perhaps they don't realize how much time, energy, and
aggravation they spend on searching for items they "just put
down for a moment," or on worrying about whether they have
turned off the oven, locked the door, unplugged the iron, or on
retrieving items they have left in trains, buses, cars, offices,
and friends' homes.
The solution to the problem of absentmindedness is both simple
and obvious: All you have to do is to be sure to think of what
you're doing during the moment in which you're doing it, That's
all, but obviously it's easier said than done. How can you be
sure to force yourself to think of a minor action at the moment
you're doing it?
There's only one way, and that is by using association. Since
association forces Original Awareness - and since being
Originally Aware is the same as having something register in
your mind in the first place, at the moment it occurs - then
forming an instant association must solve the problem of
absentmindedness.
Let's use a quick example: You're writing at your desk and the
phone rings. As you reach for the phone, you place the pencil
behind your ear, or in your hair. The phone call is finished -
that took only a few minutes - but now you waste time searching
for the pencil that's perched behind your ear. Would you like to
avoid that aggravation? Well then, the next time the phone rings
and you start to place the pencil behind your ear, make a fast
mental picture in your mind. Actually "see" the pencil going
into your ear - all the way.
The idea may make you shudder, but when you think of that
pencil, you'll know where it is. That silly association of
seeing the pencil go into your ear forced you to think of two
things in a fraction of a second: 1) the pencil, and 2) where
you were putting it. Problem solved! Solved, that is, if you
make an association each time you put down your pencil, wherever
you put it. Just make it a habit. Keep the idea in mind the
first few times, force yourself to form the associations, and
after that it will become habitual.
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