I’m pretty wishy-washy on my opinions most of the time. My views can change with the breeze as more information drifts by. Then, the effort to find out if the information is true can be exhausting. I appreciate you putting in the time to dig up the scoop.
I’ve learned that thinking about our thoughts is called metacognition. God of my understanding, give me the patience to metacognate every thought before I jump to conclusions…amen.
I understand. It can be so exhausting trying to go down the rabbit holes chasing information that "seems true" because how can we actually know? And there are so many sources! Many that I used to trust, I don't anymore. It's just hard.
All we know is what others tell us and that depends on who we trust. Trust can be so difficult to come by these days due to allegiances, personal agendas, trusted companies being bought up with the new corporation sliding in on long term established trust while making changes etc. Sheesh! And we wonder why we're having mental health crisis'.
We're on information overload and can't truly know much about most things which is also where our gut can come in to give us signals, but even that can be super tricky. If one doesn't know themselves very well but don't know that then desires and biases can come in to lead us in the wrong direction.
This is where Maya's example can be helpful because it pulls us back from the need to make a decision about it so we can just observe letting more pieces fall into place. Now, of course, we have to make decisions on some things, maybe more quickly than we might be comfortable with, but most things don't really require one immediately.
"God of my understanding, give me the patience to metacognate every thought before I jump to conclusions…amen." <---I love that! Thanks for the term. I'm likely going to use it from now on.
I’m pretty wishy-washy on my opinions most of the time. My views can change with the breeze as more information drifts by. Then, the effort to find out if the information is true can be exhausting. I appreciate you putting in the time to dig up the scoop.
I’ve learned that thinking about our thoughts is called metacognition. God of my understanding, give me the patience to metacognate every thought before I jump to conclusions…amen.
I understand. It can be so exhausting trying to go down the rabbit holes chasing information that "seems true" because how can we actually know? And there are so many sources! Many that I used to trust, I don't anymore. It's just hard.
All we know is what others tell us and that depends on who we trust. Trust can be so difficult to come by these days due to allegiances, personal agendas, trusted companies being bought up with the new corporation sliding in on long term established trust while making changes etc. Sheesh! And we wonder why we're having mental health crisis'.
We're on information overload and can't truly know much about most things which is also where our gut can come in to give us signals, but even that can be super tricky. If one doesn't know themselves very well but don't know that then desires and biases can come in to lead us in the wrong direction.
This is where Maya's example can be helpful because it pulls us back from the need to make a decision about it so we can just observe letting more pieces fall into place. Now, of course, we have to make decisions on some things, maybe more quickly than we might be comfortable with, but most things don't really require one immediately.
"God of my understanding, give me the patience to metacognate every thought before I jump to conclusions…amen." <---I love that! Thanks for the term. I'm likely going to use it from now on.
I appreciate your comments.