Edit the Defaults
Every day that you wake up, imagine that you have entered into a body and mind that has been freshly initialized, like booting up an old desktop PC.
There are some default settings that exist, but you are able to override them fairly easily.
If you let the artifacts in from other users, such as scrolling the news or ruminating on bad memories, the system will behave like it has in the past.
At night, your job is to make adjustments to the program that’s going to run the next morning.
You can take stock of some of the things that happened during the day, and then add that into your list of changes to the defaults.
Nighttime is when you write the program. Morning is when you run it.
In neuroscience, they speak of neurons that “fire together, wire together”.
In this model, you do something similar: at night, you wire together ideas for how you want your day to go. In the morning, you fire them.
Those ideas are fired using emotion or feeling.
Emotions are the electricity that gives the system power.
Negative emotions which seep in through default settings or the news will keep the system running at status quo levels. They can also sap the system of energy and grind it to a halt.
Negative emotions may contain useful information, but they do not need to be given control of the circuit.
Positive emotions, also known as “good vibrations” from humanoids that called themselves “The Beach Boys”, are the fuel that activate the programs you set the night before.
Either direction you choose to go in, just remember that a day spent tuning the system is better than a week spent grinding one that doesn’t work the way you want.
You can tune the system for longer periods of time on a weekend, or at night.
Design a circuit or program that you think is how the mind and body should function.
Does it eat healthy food and exercise?
Does it spend time working on projects that it finds interesting?
Does it limit interactions with other circuits that are infected with viruses?
Does it read books that stimulate the imagination, or does it watch programs that stir up fear and anxiety?
These are all decisions that you can make when you program the circuit during downtime. Then, when morning comes, your job is to give that program power.
What is one adjustment you can make tonight? And what feeling will you use to bring it to life tomorrow morning?
I enjoyed reading your collum this morning in sunny Margate. The rain yesterday cleaned the air from your fires that stalled outdoor activities for us the past few days.You gave an old concept a bright new thought pattern. Props. Have a great week.