I'm a firm believer that we each have our consciousness and our brain. The best results are when you just tell your brain your goal then let it do its thing. For example, in golf you can't tell you body what to do during your swing because your consciousness can't think fast enough. Just visualize the shot and swing. Also, you don't want to be thinking about the water on the left side of the fairway because your brain will just hear "water". Then your brain says hold my beer because I can definitely put this thing in the water.
Good read, C. In Scripture, God tells us to seize every thought and bring it into captivity to Christ. There is the flesh (our selfish desires apart from Christ), the worldly input (could be good or bad), the Spirit man (for those who believe in His death and resurrection and confess their need for Him, the Spirit of God comes and unites with our eternal Spirit (mind, will, emotions)), and the enemy (spiritual forces of darkness). Unlike the Buddhist philosophy of emptying our minds, of letting go of ego, of being mindless, there is a profound relationship/dialogue that Christians are called to acknowledge and be diligent in keeping under control. So, as I have played a lot of padel (did not know you spelled it that way), when a Christian mis-hits, there are many places we can go in our minds that is quite healthy: thankfulness (we have arms, eyes to see the ball, eternal life, etc.), prayers (for your teammate, opponents, president trump, yourself), waiting (a form of prayer, but it is a forced stillness where you acknowledge His presence and wait on His Words...or not). In this waiting, it is possible God would say, "Bend your knees more" or "keep your eyes on the ball". A mature believer establishes these spiritual habits like a mature padel player who has so habitually done the good work to get better that he believes he knows what he did when he mishit the ball and subtly corrects it the next time. Thanks for spurring me on to be more mindlessly mindful.
‘I honestly wish there were a hack for this — being more mindless — but I don’t know of any.’
- Long distance & movement (cycling 100k+, running 25k+, walking all day over multiple days etc.) are good for this.
I'm a firm believer that we each have our consciousness and our brain. The best results are when you just tell your brain your goal then let it do its thing. For example, in golf you can't tell you body what to do during your swing because your consciousness can't think fast enough. Just visualize the shot and swing. Also, you don't want to be thinking about the water on the left side of the fairway because your brain will just hear "water". Then your brain says hold my beer because I can definitely put this thing in the water.
Good read, C. In Scripture, God tells us to seize every thought and bring it into captivity to Christ. There is the flesh (our selfish desires apart from Christ), the worldly input (could be good or bad), the Spirit man (for those who believe in His death and resurrection and confess their need for Him, the Spirit of God comes and unites with our eternal Spirit (mind, will, emotions)), and the enemy (spiritual forces of darkness). Unlike the Buddhist philosophy of emptying our minds, of letting go of ego, of being mindless, there is a profound relationship/dialogue that Christians are called to acknowledge and be diligent in keeping under control. So, as I have played a lot of padel (did not know you spelled it that way), when a Christian mis-hits, there are many places we can go in our minds that is quite healthy: thankfulness (we have arms, eyes to see the ball, eternal life, etc.), prayers (for your teammate, opponents, president trump, yourself), waiting (a form of prayer, but it is a forced stillness where you acknowledge His presence and wait on His Words...or not). In this waiting, it is possible God would say, "Bend your knees more" or "keep your eyes on the ball". A mature believer establishes these spiritual habits like a mature padel player who has so habitually done the good work to get better that he believes he knows what he did when he mishit the ball and subtly corrects it the next time. Thanks for spurring me on to be more mindlessly mindful.