Mental Modeling

Meditation is the process of understanding ones own mind, with the objective of following your own Thought Chains to create a usable Mental Model.

Our minds are active all of the time. As we interact with our environment, our minds are constantly creating mental thought chains. This leads to a never ending barrage of noise. It’s like having a radio station, set to the same channel, playing in your head for eternity. Without the luxury of a volume control or an on off switch you are truly lost. Yoga and Meditation gives you a volume control and an on off switch to use whenever you need to.

All of our ideas and actions are created from these mental thought chains. We are literally what we think. So then it follows that we should consider understanding how the mind works, understanding how our own minds function, as something that is extremely important and to be taken very seriously.

It bears repeating, that this is what meditation does. It is a process that is based upon a working model of how our minds work. Meditation is a process that allows us to understand ourselves. Through meditation you can;

• Look at your own thoughts,
• Look at your thoughts from the perspective of the observer and the observed,
• Learn how to change the way you think, to be more productive,
• Realize that the way you think and interact with the world, determines how happy or sad you are, and finally,
• Realize the many physical and mental benefits that yoga and meditation provides.

Mental activity creates thoughts that are linked together with other thoughts. So for example:

• You see someone that reminds you of an old friend named Bob,
• You think,” I really like Bob,”
• You wonder what Bob is up to,
• You wonder how the old gang is doing,
• You wonder if Bob is on facebook,
• You proceed to check out facebook, to find your old friend Bob and all of your other old friends from the gang.

So the initial interaction with the environment, triggers a specific action. This is usually the case. First you react to the person that reminds you of Bob. You react to the outside environmental stimulus. You, the observer, then proceed to observe the stimulus and react. This action triggers yet another thought and observation and reaction,  and another, and another.

You may even create thought chains that will eventually lead to a totally different thought pattern or subject matter. For example:

• You start out seeing the person that reminds you of Bob,
• You observe that you “like” Bob,
• Bob makes you feel good,
• You think, “Bob was always in really good shape, he always exercised a lot,”
• You think of you own physical conditioning,
• You observe that you aren’t particularly happy about the shape that you are in,
• This makes you feel badly,
• You think, “I have to get to the gym and workout harder.”
• You then observe, this makes you feel good, but you really don’t have time to get to the gym tonight, because you have to work late,
• You then observe that you feel poorly that you won’t be able to work out tonight.

In the above thought chain you completely went off topic, and you may have noticed, that you went from feeling good, to feeling bad, to feeling good, to feeling bad again, all within a few moments. Yikes! Crazy right.

Yet this is exactly what we do all of the time. We constantly subject ourselves to this fruitless mental dance. Moving from one chain of thoughts to another, often without even being aware of what’s happening to us.

You have no idea how to stop it, change it, or at least not to have it affect you in a negative way. Sometimes you’ll even act out without realizing what your doing.

Through Yoga and Meditation you will learn how to monitor your mental thought chains and recognize mechanical unproductive patterns in your thinking. You will form a working model of how your mind functions, so that you can easily see negative thought chains and begin to create new, positive thoughts to replace them. You will move forward with your life and manifest a rewarding and vibrant reality.

There are so many secrets that Yoga and Meditation will reveal to you. There are so many ways that Yoga and Meditation can make your life easier and more fulfilling. Come and explore these secrets with me now by going to: http://www.yogaawakening.com

To a Stree Free and Abundant Life,

Anthony D’Agostino, Founder of YogaAwakening.com

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