MASTER GAMERS

Our minds approach life as if everything is a game.

Buy a new car? They’ll spot every car exactly like it. Ask them what we want for dinner? They won’t just yell, “Take out!” They’ll give us a visual of the food. Tell them not to think ‘pink elephants’? (Well, they like to play tricks, too.) In fact, they love games so much that if we don’t give them one they’ll just make one up.

And that’s where the trouble starts.

If we’re thinking happy, healthy thoughts? No problem. They’ll come up with more! But give them a sad or anxious or angry feeling to work with and watch out! Why? Because it’s all a game--one where their only goal is to please us--to give us what they think we’re asking them for. Good or bad.

It’s good to let them go off leash. Sometimes. It can be both cathartic and creative. But like the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawkings said, “It’s important to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.” Our minds want and need some level of loving guidance. After all, it’s why they store up our emotional profiles, values, experiences, habits, beliefs, preferences, relationship histories, mores and more. 

Self-awareness--TO ASK OURSELVES WHY WE’RE THINKING WHAT WE’RE THINKING--is a special capacity of the human mind--a true gift--given to all but gainfully utilized by few. Never mind under! There’s a wealth of wisdom waiting right behind our noses that we only draw upon if and when we consciously seek it out. And it’s the kind of savvy that matures us, shaping us into better, happier people . . . 

. . . .and making the world a safer, sweeter place.

TODAY.

LET’S GIVE THE WORLD & OURSELVES A GIFT.

LET’S TAKE TIME TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE THINK.