2020 Week 49 Contemplation Thoughts So Far
(Updated throughout the week)
- Is a person simply a collection of memories? If there was technology that would take all of my memories and place them in someone else’s brain, with that person and up with my exact same personality?
- Many of us, when unhappy with our present, will hide in our cherished memories. But is this always a bad thing? Energetically, finding peace or happiness in memories still changes our energetic field in the now. Maybe it can help start to shift things in our now. Too much of anything is a problem, though
- Where are my memories? Are they stored in my brain?
- Brain injury can cause the loss of memory. But are brains storage units or are brains access devices?
- I’ve come around more to the beliefs that memories and thoughts are not created and held in the brain
- So what are memories exactly? I guess I would say that a memory is one of infinite possibilities/scenarios that we physically experienced
- Is it possible, to get to a point where I am truly living in the present without relying on or referring to my memories to judge, understand, predict, or in any way analyze my current experience?
- Aren’t memories just a narrow snapshot of how I was, my state of being, at a particular point in the past? Why do I continue to give them so much power in my now?
- One reason is that I crave continuity. Continuity makes me feel safe. Believing that my memories can help me and keep me safe now is a like a warm, snuggly blanket
- What effects how well we can remember? Why do some people have poor memory? Why do some remember information with ease?
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