Marine Boot Camp, San Diego - 3 Things You Need to Know to Graduate Marine Basic Training

Firstly, on a scientific level, research shows that only around 20% of our thoughts are 'conscious thoughts' (i.e. thoughts that we are in control of) each day. The other 80% of thoughts that we have, happen at the level of our 'subconscious'. So to ask a question like "How do I stop thinking" is to ask a question like "How do I stop my heart beating" or "How do I stop my food digesting." The subconscious functions on 'autopilot' so the answer is, it would be pretty much impossible!
The conscious mind needs something to do. It is like an untrained puppy. Asking a puppy to be quiet and do nothing is nigh on impossible. If left alone, a puppy can find untold mischief in about 5 seconds ( I know, we have a 7-month old labrador:)) If you sit still and concentrate on thinking about nothing, what happens? I challenge you to try it for the next 2 minutes. The result? - I bet you spent the whole time trying to dodge the thoughts that kept popping into the 'void'.
So how do you train your mind to be quiet? If you study meditation, you will learn that the purpose of meditation is not to 'sit there and think about nothing'. The purpose of meditation is learning how to hold the mind on a single focus point for extended periods of time.
We train the mind to 'sit still' for extended periods of time, in much the same way that we train the puppy to eventually sit still. One of the ways of learning to train the mind to do that is to focus on the space between our thoughts. We focus on creating something, rather than eliminating something. And isn't this much more in tune with the physical laws of the universe? After all, we know that energy cannot be 'made' or 'destroyed', it can only be changed.




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