If you have tried thinking without words, you may want to try a further step. If you analyse each and every of your thoughts, without the constriction of language you may realise that every concept that you know is actually founded in a specific feeling, a sense that you perceive in your mind. For example, imagine the colour blue. Not the word blue or an object that may be blue, but simply imagine the colour blue. Now concentrating on it remember what "feeling" is present in your mind. Then imagine the colour red. Just the colour and the feeling that it conveys within you. You should find that both "feelings" are distinctively different. There is no similarity in them, linking them as the language concept of colour would. These two feelings are completely separate.
If you have not actually thought the words "red" and "blue" but actually imagined the colour
and felt what feeling these provoke in you, you may be inching closer to discovering how the thought process works. Every concept that we have, may it be "table", "red" or "memory" is far more than just a differently sounding word, or an abstract idea. Each of these concepts is saved in our nervous system under a specific feeling. These feelings put together create a story or a description of a scene, which we can thus recreate in our mind. Think of "the red apple was juicy and sweet". But ignoring the words, just picture that scene in your mind. Each of these concepts is linked to a specific feeling that springs forth from your memory.
Hence, the next level of discovering your mind is to think without words or concepts but just in these feelings.It is quite reveiling as it shows how much our thought processes are governed by the past and our language. Practicing to eliminate these "shackles" can give a grand new way of thinking, releasing the thoughts into infinite possibility.
It is certainly an effective way of learning how to concentrate deeply and of how to be in control of your thoughts and feelings instead of letting them control you.
If you have not actually thought the words "red" and "blue" but actually imagined the colour
and felt what feeling these provoke in you, you may be inching closer to discovering how the thought process works. Every concept that we have, may it be "table", "red" or "memory" is far more than just a differently sounding word, or an abstract idea. Each of these concepts is saved in our nervous system under a specific feeling. These feelings put together create a story or a description of a scene, which we can thus recreate in our mind. Think of "the red apple was juicy and sweet". But ignoring the words, just picture that scene in your mind. Each of these concepts is linked to a specific feeling that springs forth from your memory.
Hence, the next level of discovering your mind is to think without words or concepts but just in these feelings.It is quite reveiling as it shows how much our thought processes are governed by the past and our language. Practicing to eliminate these "shackles" can give a grand new way of thinking, releasing the thoughts into infinite possibility.
It is certainly an effective way of learning how to concentrate deeply and of how to be in control of your thoughts and feelings instead of letting them control you.
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