Written by Damien Chinappi with Evolution Now Project CAN ADDICTION BE A GOOD THING? Addiction, that’s a word that is typically designated to drugs, substance, sex, and even food. But the truth is we all have an addiction … to our thoughts. You heard me right, we are addicted to our own thoughts. What’s even more … they aren’t even ours. Still, everything from the opinions, personal thresholds, the attention spans to even the quality of the thoughts in our minds create a certain addiction. The brain wants to coast along on autopilot which means it gets used to the thoughts that populate the mind. And all of this is for better or for worse. We’ve all heard the saying, ‘the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” Well this can be applied to how your mind works. WHAT ARE WE FOCUSED ON? You follow a particular version of yourself, that version is cycling thoughts. These thoughts feel like you, but they are really more like the station that the antenna of your mind is tuned to. All of this is to keep us in a place that is familiar, because familiarity breeds security. A deep part of our core being is to stay alive but to truly live, requires us to thrive. The key is to get addicted to the thought patterns that expand our curiosity which enable us to grow. The growth mindset allows us to endure the pain of change while we engage with the toughness required to stay persistent in those pursuits. So how do we shift into that mindset? We have to break the addiction to certain thoughts. I can’t, it’s too difficult, I’m not ready. BREAKING THOUGHT ADDICTION We break our thought addiction first through awareness and through accepting that it occurs. And second, by installing the conceptual frameworks. Mental frameworks that allow us to minimize the amount of negative emotion we feel while experiencing frustration in the early phases of building a new skill or habit. In short, you become aware of how to find positive emotion through failure. Moving forward isn’t a straight line, and the more you can find something positive in the process, the more likely you will stay consistent with it. Like Pavlov's dogs. This week on Evolution Now we explore how to get outside the bubble of our thought stream and create new habits of mind. Listen or Watch on YouTube HERE. #EvolutionNowProject #EvolutionNowPodcast #Reveel ![]() - Written by Damien Chinappi, July 2023 This essay was written as part of Evolution Now Project Blog Article #1
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Are you ready for life's greatest rewards? Are you ready to become the best version of yourself? Now, that may sound like some sales pitch, but stay with me... YOU WERE MADE TO ENJOY LIFE TO THE FULLEST! Really. How does it make you feel to read that? Does it excite you? Trigger you? Good. When we are able to notice where we feel resistance, where we feel activation or even pain, that's where growth happens. It happens outside our comfort zones. As the famous poet Rumi once said, "the wound is where the light enters you." We're supposed to enjoy our lives. We're supposed to be healthy, to be doing things that we love every day, and we're supposed to be proud of what we're creating with our lives day in and day out. ...if you're still reading then we've sparked your curiosity. (Or you're in our inner circle and you've been guided here by someone you trust.) Either way, thanks for being here to explore what we're creating. The Inquiry Evolution Now Project spawned from an inquiry... What is my best, and am I living up to that potential? This inner-facing question opens up a rabbit hole for this who are courageous enough to ask. I once heard a motivational speaker in Miami provoke his audience by telling us to ask ourselves, "What more am I capable of?" And when we ask that, we open ourselves up to a deeper analysis. The first step is to define what the words we're asking really mean. What is my best? What does "best" mean? In comparison to what? Where I've been, or where I want to go? The Conversation The dialogue, "tri-alogue" and conversation begins with self inquiry and then expands out to our tribe and world around us. In order to make any progress on our journey from our wild savage origins to our modern civilized society, we have to ask ourselves, how did we get where we are? And on what foundation is our existence built? When we ask these type of existential questions, we are led to the conclusion that our entire reality is built from words and their interpretation. From mathematics, to law, to physics, to philosophy and everything in between, the world that we live in is made from words. What do you mean? Interpretation creates meaning, and it is always subjective. One person feels that fairness means everybody is punished, and another feels that fairness means nobody is punished. Take the word "gay" for instance. Just half a century ago the meaning of the word went from "happy" to "homo-sexual." Another strange phenomenon of language is the word "ravel." Ravel, according to the dictionary, means for something to "come undone." But due to the nature of language, people habitually started adding the prefix "un" to the word "ravel." Now we have the word "un-ravel" which literally means the same thing as "ravel." (Look it up if you don't believe me…) Who do you think you're talking to? Henry Ford once said, "he who says he can, and he who says he can't, are both right." Or something like that. The point here is that it's our perspective that changes the reality that we experience. So that's the foundation of our pursuit with Evolution Now Project. How does our use of language change our life? Individually and collectively? How does language evolve? What are the real meanings of words? How does our use of language effect our persona and collective evolution? Body mind and soul. Physical and metaphysical. Evolution Now Project is a discussion of these ideas where every day people and world-class thinkers are invited to an informal conversation to discuss language and personal evolution, while sharing some of their best pearls of wisdom with you, our listeners, readers, our tribe, our... "Evolutionaries." Together we can evolve to a greater humanity. How to get involved with Evolution Now Project We publish our Podcast on all major platforms. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel, follow us on Instagram, and sign up for our THINK EVOLVE Weekly Newsletter aimed at keeping you focussed on your personal evolution. Stay tuned for upcoming events and shows. And always remember to keep growing! |
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