by romanrusso » Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:12 am
Additionally, I thought I'd explain why your mind works in the way you just described it to work. Essentially, you were given a beautiful and powerful brain that can remember the past and try to foresee the future. This brain gave human beings an advantage over other species and eventually lead to the world as you see today. However, this powerful mind can sometimes start working incorrectly, not because it is flawed, but because we misuse it. In your case, you are replaying old situations, evolutionary looking for life lessons which you could take from these situations so they never happen to you before. Its a smart mechanism, but only to the degree that you can use this mechanism efficiently. However, I'd bet that most of your thinking is not very efficient. Being stuck in a loop makes you stuck in the past, which in turn does not allow you to focus on the now. So what if you did something wrong in the past? Past is gone. Focus on whats in front of you. You can control your mind and if this does not serve you, just discard that thought and move forward.