Spending time with your thoughts

We search for answers every day, and technology helps us access information. Taking time to be alone with our thoughts is important. It can improve mood, reduce stress, and boost creativity. Thoughts can be good or bad. Good thoughts help us make positive changes, while bad thoughts can lead to anxiety and negative behavior. In a school with fewer opportunities, it may be harder to have good thoughts. Spending quality time with our thoughts can be challenging, but it's important to focus on the positive and stay motivated. Setting aside time, finding a quiet space, and focusing on thoughts without judgment can help. It takes practice, but over time, our thoughts can change and lead to positive changes in our lives. Answers, every day, is part of our life. Whether it's a small question like, where do we find the cheapest ice cream? Or a big question like, how to make the world a better place? We search for answers every day. It is in a human instinct to search for solutions to any problems we face and gain better understanding for the world around us. With the help of technology, we are now able to access a world of information to help us to find the answers we need. In the world full of questions, it's important to use the tools available for us to find answers that we seek every day. Good evening, my name is Tefecha Muloko, Muruja style, just for a piece. Welcome to the broadcast. Today's episode, we're going to talk about spending time with your thoughts. Now, as you're sitting down where you are sitting, whether you're with family, whether alone, with the couch, whether you're lying in bed, or whether you're working to work, or you're working to school, or whatever time you find yourself listening to the broadcast. So today, we are going to talk about the importance of spending time with your thoughts. We all need to take some time for ourselves to slow down and reflect on our status. Studies show that taking some time to be alone with your thoughts can help to improve your mood, reduce your stress, or even better, boost your creativity. And we are going to sit down and listen and just to bond with our thoughts wherever we are. The most important question that we are hearing tonight is, how can I spend some quality time with my thoughts? And how does my thoughts affect me wherever I'm sitting or whatever I'm doing in my everyday life? Alright, let's get down to it. For a moment, think about the waveform. How do you define or examine, how do you now understand the waveform in your own context? Researchers such as Karl Ford, in his article, The Nature of Thoughts, 2003, he said to us that thoughts refer to a mental process of perceptions, memory, judgment, and reasoning that occurs in our mind. That to me, it says to me that it can be voluntarily or involuntarily, or a simple range of simple ideas to accomplish the problem-solving tasks that we are doing in our everyday life. But however, when you look at this range of thoughts, for me it has two sides of the coin. The head as a good thought, the tail as a bad thought. Now the good thoughts can be beneficial to us. They can help us to make positive changes in our lives and motivate us to take positive actions. They can help us to focus on our goals and stay motivated every day of our life. They can also help us to feel more confident about the future that is good about us. On the other hand, the tail, and that's the way to comfort, can be a damaging to us. Because the bad thoughts, to me, is that they can lead to a feeling of anxiety or depression. They can also lead us to a feeling of guilt, self-doubt, and most important of all, feel bad about everything that is happening around you. And bad thoughts can lead us to a negative behavior such as procrastination and avoiding challenges that are the tasks that we are facing every day. It can also lead to unhealthy habits that we are having every day, such as overreacting, or even more, substance abuse. It can be drugs, it can be alcohol, it can be whatever that is unhealthy to us. And that can be very difficult for us to really now understand the way forward in our minds. Now, as much as the word God has two sides of the pie, when I was growing up at my elementary school, there's a teacher that was always telling us, young as we were, that she must learn big. Now, remember, I'm talking about a school that is in a township in Sicily, where you see that there's no opportunities around you. And there's a young boy that asked a question to a teacher, saying to a teacher, saying, teacher, how can I dream big without the opportunities around us? We are a school that has no, actually, playgrounds that is more healthier, or a subject that we do as a sport of recreation to ourselves. For those who love sports, can be more active on sports, and for those who like reading, or whatever, talking publicly, they can be able to do activities, or whatever activities that are related to a public speaking. But again, this question, it does not make me think now to say it makes sense for that question to be brought forward to us. But such a school with less things that can be done, how can one dream big? Can a child in a township be compared to a child that is living in a suburb, who was having the privilege to go to a school that has more things to be done, or rather more facilities that are being used in a school? Now, obviously there are two things that can be involved in here. A child in my school, at an occasion, might not even have a very good thought in his mind, or her mind. And rather a child, either suburb, or in town, would rather have good thoughts in his own way, and his own context. But however, there are a lot of kids that previously made it in their lives, as you're speaking today, from the very same school that I am. I was at, during my elementary times. However, this has again helped me to understand that as we are changing together, to understand and searching a question, that how then, one can really, really, really spend quality time with his or her thoughts, and those thoughts are only bordered in one side of the pie, and that is good thoughts. Do we really need bad thoughts that can really help us to turn our lives to become a people that can really see things according to the good thoughts that we see? How then, again, do you motivate somebody who comes from the very same school that we are at, to really, really think about his thoughts, and a good thought about it? Remember we are talking here about positive changes in our lives, motivating us to take positive actions, and even more, staying motivated. Every day, even life is not taking us, or is not treating us well. But then again, how do you see his or her thoughts that is running in your life? How do you sit down now, and really define the way the thoughts according to your own questions, content? How many times would you think about staying in a good thoughts and staying motivated? Sit down and think, looking at your life. How much time do you spend with good thoughts that can benefit other to you? Or how much do you think that you spend on bad thoughts that can be damaging to you as a person? Do you ever find difficulties to find jobs? Struggling to find tuition fees? Trying to apply left and right, but there's no positive answer that comes to your mind? And then again, cutting back from those bad thoughts, and looking at the good thoughts that you have. Always be motivated. Probably you've succeeded in your life. Probably you're in the road of succession. Probably you have people around you that can always talk to you about being successful, and finding good jobs, or going to school, or improving your life, or your marriage, or your relationship. Because either way, this is something that clearly, clearly, clearly affects the way we live with our feelings. It might be bad, and also it might be good. When you're saying Mutolo Wa Iza, and we're thinking about the type of thoughts that we always have towards Mutolo, and it is very difficult for someone who always has bad thoughts that are damaging him or her, and in a good relationship, or a good environment that he is in. Very difficult. And you find someone with a very good relationship, very successful person, who has good thoughts every now and then, and also staying motivated. Motivating others, thinking about the future, and staying positive in all the time. How do you then, one as you are, be in a position to move from bad to good? When the good is not the one that you see every day when you wake up, but you only see the bad side of things. How to spend some quality time with your thoughts accordingly? It all comes to a question of saying, how can you spend some quality time with your thoughts? Well, I'm having some few pointers that will improve where you need to be improved. Or if you never started, you can try these few pointers. And again, if you are already on the zone, it can also help you to evaluate the process of spending time with your thoughts. Number one. Start by setting aside a few minutes each and every day to be alone with your thoughts. Number two. Find a quiet spot that is free from distractions, and take a few deep breaths to relax your body and mind. This will help you to really balance the environment that you are in. And really allow your body, your mind, your emotions to be ready to go deep into the journey of your thoughts. Allow yourself to be focused on your thoughts and emotions without judgements. What I'm trying to say here is that, if you go deep into your thoughts, focusing on emotions and thoughts without judgements, it gives you the energy to really find yourself in balancing the situations that you are in. Whether it's trying to find a job, whether it's trying to study, whether it's trying to achieve a certain goal, or whatever that you might be thinking now. Thirdly, if your mind starts to wander, gently guide it back to the topic of your thoughts. Take it for example. If you're thinking of achieving financial goals, and jiggy-jiggy, your mind drives and offers them to another road. Try to really come back again to say, I'm not thinking about this one, I'm thinking about this. So that your thoughts can be focused, and your thoughts can start to be in line with the topic that you're trying to think about. Your thoughts will change over time. This is not an activity that you can just do it without practice. So use this time to oversee how you grow within the issue of going deep into your thoughts, and spending time with your thoughts. Take notes of any producing thoughts or patterns, and think about how can we use them to make a positive change into your life. When we were still growing up, they used to tell us that there's a behavior that if you can do, lekhema lepukhti. So for those who don't understand the word lekhema, it means somebody that is scary, boogerman in brackets. And then that made us to say that whatever we do, we must do it so that boogerman or lekhema can come back and take us. What does it mean to us? It changes the patterns in how we act, and how we do things, and how we spend time together, for us to change the way we do things, and change our lives for better. In conclusion, spending time with your thoughts can be a powerful tool for self-reflection and personal growth. So make sure that you take few moments each day to connect with yourself and write, almost, thoughts, so that when you sit down and reflect on your life, whether you do it every day, or you do it once a week, or you do it every minute, or you do it every hour, it's up to you. But whenever you have the time, it's up to you. But whenever you have the time to spend time with your thoughts, clearly, be in a quiet space, make time to respond with free distractions, and take a deep breath, relax your body, and make sure your mind is full of thoughts and emotions, without judgment. My name is Karis Tafatabouloukou. Ritual style, just an artist. Thank you for listening. We'll see you once again in a second episode. 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