You know that moment when a cartoon character cozies down into a hot bath and lets out that big, ridiculous, relieved sigh? I feel like that all of the time. I’ve heard psychologists and neurologists talk about how our patterns of thinking feed upon themselves. A good analogy is that of a wagon driving down a dirt road. The more the wagon travels back and forth, up and down that road, the more likely it is that the dirt gives way and creates tracks or ruts. And before long it becomes virtually impossible to drive down that road without going into those ruts. And then the wagon is stuck on that course and has only one destination: wherever it’s been before. Wherever it went last time.
Happy Little Trees
Happy Little Trees
Happy Little Trees
You know that moment when a cartoon character cozies down into a hot bath and lets out that big, ridiculous, relieved sigh? I feel like that all of the time. I’ve heard psychologists and neurologists talk about how our patterns of thinking feed upon themselves. A good analogy is that of a wagon driving down a dirt road. The more the wagon travels back and forth, up and down that road, the more likely it is that the dirt gives way and creates tracks or ruts. And before long it becomes virtually impossible to drive down that road without going into those ruts. And then the wagon is stuck on that course and has only one destination: wherever it’s been before. Wherever it went last time.