I think

Is possibly one of the most abused expressions in the English language...

Why?

Because so few mean that they have actually thought about whatever it is they are talking about

So many merely repeat what others have said on the subject

Most have not thought at all

In fact how much thinking do you really do?

Do you think?

Not being rude but so many seldom think other than in a purely reflexive way

Funny though how thoughts are in our heads all day long

We don't think and yet we are full of thoughts all day long

And so just what is it that we are filling our heads with?

Whatever we hear

Whatever we see

Whatever we feel

All day long every day our senses are bombarded with noise, pictures, advertisements and other highly intrusive invasions of our space

No easy way out as the purveyors of such intrusions find ever more subtle or noisy ways to bombard us with their messages

So we learn to tune out by choosing our own noise, pictures and acceptable advertisements

Thereby changing forced feeding for voluntary feeding

Does this do the trick?

Probably not because at some point we need quiet

Even if we do not pay attention to whatever we have chosen it still invades our space

Become conscious of how much you allow or choose to be surrounded by noise of one kind or another

Give yourself a conscious break

Learn to find silence

Learn to enjoy silence

Notice how your mind still wants to chatter

Which brings us around full circle to why we started allowing ourselves to be bombarded

We do not know how to turn our minds off

Knowing how to do this is not easy and requires effort

Effort that is very rewarding for those who stick with it

Saves a lot of wear and tear over the course of a lifetime

First notice your reality with regard to your mind

Then decide to change to quiet mode for periods every day

Do this by learning to meditate

Then observe do you really think or is whatever just something you have got in the habit of saying?

I think?