Phemanderac wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 12:44pm:



if you are climbing a very treachorous mountain, your mind will initially be in a state of  "dont do it, you might fall"...what is called negative neurotic thinking....but once you start, the mind will (usually) flip to "he's doing it, focus, total concentration and with this comes enjoyment"

the same might be true of down hill skiing.

too easy and youre bored
too hard and you take off your skis and walk down
but just the right challenge ( a bit harder than you usually do) and you will get into a "flow state".

a flow state is a state of mindfulness.

if i'm just riding along with no intensity, i wont be in flow
if the horse starts bucking and i am frightened i wont be in flow
but if you try to do a challenging course (barrels or whatever ) or a dressage test, you will need to be in flow to get the best out of yourself.
and flow state is perfect mindfulness,  an hour passes and it feels like a minute.

Well, you're actually almost describing meta congition, which, arguably is a little bit to do with the new age and much overused "mindfulness" term...

Of course, learning how we think, or rather, how our brain functions can help us use it better for a range of situations.

The "don't do it" self talk is actually a very natural reaction to fear and occurs in the Amygdala... (in very basic terms), it is only through practice that we learn to calm ourselves using our Frontal Cortex - by learning how to think we can think better... A good example of this would be what a bloke named Captain Sullenberger and his co-pilot achieved landing a plane with no power on the Hudson river some years back... (look it up by all means). If he let his fear take control everyone on board would have been dead...

Marla wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 12:29pm:


Marla, just ignore Scoot, he is a bit up with the fairies.

Nod. Nod Wink, Wink, 

He is a dole bludger that has never worked a day in his life, or so they say!

Has an obsession with horses!!

Come to me if you need some good advice! 

Phemanderac wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 1:49pm:


and i thought it was the reticular activation system.

just kidding, thanks for the response,  informative

Marla wrote on Nov 20^th, 2015 at 8:41am:



How do you figure that?

Marla wrote on Nov 21^st, 2015 at 10:15am:


Maybe it was because you never have a civil thing to post to anyone!

Whatever you did you did all on your own, I never asked anyone to do anything. Who do you usually blame in life?

Marla wrote on Nov 19^th, 2015 at 3:57pm:


Some have a set against Americans', they ain't that popular with the far left.