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Abstract thinking has certainly improved the human condition but it has also created some serious problems. Stress accounts for over 60% of doctor visits and much of that stress results from people continually thinking and worrying about the past and the future. Often we literally “are not here” but instead are “in our head” thinking and worrying. It appears that meditation and other practices were originally developed as ways to help maintain a healthy balance of the life we live “in our head” and the life we live as immediate experiences.
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THE POEM OF MY MIND.. From those who say they never notice any absence of thoughts: “I wish my brain would stop, but it goes on all the time worrying.” “sometimes I try to just not think but I always end up thinking” “There is not a single moment in the day where I have no thoughts” “I always think. My mind races always.” “My mind is usually a train-wreck. Thoughts whirl around my head constantly.”