Janet Ettele

And that's something we were, you were talking with your guests the other day about mindfulness and This is one of the reasons why mindfulness is so important to know where your thoughts are. I've read that the average person here thinks anywhere between 12 and a half thousand to 60,000 thoughts per day. And I did the math.

And that's something we were, you were talking with your guests the other day about mindfulness and This is one of the reasons why mindfulness is so important to know where your thoughts are. I've read that the average person here thinks anywhere between 12 and a half thousand to 60,000 thoughts per day. And I did the math.

I thought, all right, even if you were to sleep eight hours a day, you would have 57,600 waking seconds. And you know how fast thoughts

I thought, all right, even if you were to sleep eight hours a day, you would have 57,600 waking seconds. And you know how fast thoughts

I thought, all right, even if you were to sleep eight hours a day, you would have 57,600 waking seconds. And you know how fast thoughts

move through your mind so it's not stretched to think that you could have even more than 60 000 thoughts per day but what i've also read is that somewhere between 80 and 98 percent of those thoughts are repeated daily so what meditation is a method of familiarizing your mind to something and if what we're doing in this repetition

move through your mind so it's not stretched to think that you could have even more than 60 000 thoughts per day but what i've also read is that somewhere between 80 and 98 percent of those thoughts are repeated daily so what meditation is a method of familiarizing your mind to something and if what we're doing in this repetition

move through your mind so it's not stretched to think that you could have even more than 60 000 thoughts per day but what i've also read is that somewhere between 80 and 98 percent of those thoughts are repeated daily so what meditation is a method of familiarizing your mind to something and if what we're doing in this repetition

of 80 to 98 of our thoughts repeated daily we're having our very own very wild very unconscious meditation that is deepening and deepening whatever these thoughts are which is why cultivating mindfulness starting to become aware of what are these thoughts and if they're not if they're not conducive to a more peaceful way of life if they're based on things that aren't altogether accurate and true.

of 80 to 98 of our thoughts repeated daily we're having our very own very wild very unconscious meditation that is deepening and deepening whatever these thoughts are which is why cultivating mindfulness starting to become aware of what are these thoughts and if they're not if they're not conducive to a more peaceful way of life if they're based on things that aren't altogether accurate and true.

of 80 to 98 of our thoughts repeated daily we're having our very own very wild very unconscious meditation that is deepening and deepening whatever these thoughts are which is why cultivating mindfulness starting to become aware of what are these thoughts and if they're not if they're not conducive to a more peaceful way of life if they're based on things that aren't altogether accurate and true.

The downside of that and the upside to cultivating awareness of those thoughts.

The downside of that and the upside to cultivating awareness of those thoughts.

The downside of that and the upside to cultivating awareness of those thoughts.

Right, right. That's well said, very well said. I like your pinball machine metaphor because I think it really fits to the thinking about the choices we make There is something taught in the Buddhist tradition called the Eightfold Path. Have you heard of that?

Right, right. That's well said, very well said. I like your pinball machine metaphor because I think it really fits to the thinking about the choices we make There is something taught in the Buddhist tradition called the Eightfold Path. Have you heard of that?

Right, right. That's well said, very well said. I like your pinball machine metaphor because I think it really fits to the thinking about the choices we make There is something taught in the Buddhist tradition called the Eightfold Path. Have you heard of that?

Yeah, which is right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration, which is what you were speaking about before. And if we can just bring our attention into that in our choices, to check these things. And of course there's more to each of that.

Yeah, which is right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration, which is what you were speaking about before. And if we can just bring our attention into that in our choices, to check these things. And of course there's more to each of that.

Yeah, which is right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration, which is what you were speaking about before. And if we can just bring our attention into that in our choices, to check these things. And of course there's more to each of that.