A person's mind at a given moment can be swarming with confusing thoughts. This can be due to problems in life, and an inability to know how to respond to such problems. Rapid overcoming thoughts can lead to anxiety, confusion, anger, fear and depression. In this situation we can choose to use thought to solve the problem thought itself keeps producing, or we can find another way. That is, realizing that "thinking harder" is seldom a solution as often as simply pausing to realize and practice the presence of God.
One way to "step-out-of" this defense mechanism of intellectualism that often overcomes us, is to gently hold in our hands the beads and crucifix of a rosary. In the psychological discipline of "Neurolinguistic Progrmming (NLP)", it is understood that we operate communicatively on three levels or channels. Visual, auditory and kinesthetic. In this rapid age of technology, many of us grow weary of the bombardment of what we see and hear all around us (visual and auditory). Sometimes we need to go to the quiet. Using physical touch to kinesthetically feel in our hands something that for centuries has connected people to God can free us for 20 minutes or more from the cares and confusion and "noise" of this world. Then, and sometimes only then, do the answers to life's problems emerge from inside ourselves, words we knew all along, spoken to us by powers of God greater than our own intellects.
(Neurolinguistic Programming are theories of Bandler and Grinder. The approach of study is rooted in psycholinguistics, examining the relationship between unconscious mental processing and language.)
One way to "step-out-of" this defense mechanism of intellectualism that often overcomes us, is to gently hold in our hands the beads and crucifix of a rosary. In the psychological discipline of "Neurolinguistic Progrmming (NLP)", it is understood that we operate communicatively on three levels or channels. Visual, auditory and kinesthetic. In this rapid age of technology, many of us grow weary of the bombardment of what we see and hear all around us (visual and auditory). Sometimes we need to go to the quiet. Using physical touch to kinesthetically feel in our hands something that for centuries has connected people to God can free us for 20 minutes or more from the cares and confusion and "noise" of this world. Then, and sometimes only then, do the answers to life's problems emerge from inside ourselves, words we knew all along, spoken to us by powers of God greater than our own intellects.
(Neurolinguistic Programming are theories of Bandler and Grinder. The approach of study is rooted in psycholinguistics, examining the relationship between unconscious mental processing and language.)
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