You Can ACT Your Way Into Right Thinking....

[SPKrazy]

better than you can think your way into right acting...


:shrug:


Discuss?

[opiate69]

1. There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity

[SPKrazy]

3. True Dat...

:shrug:

what d00d said

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. I think all right-thinking people in this country

are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired! I'm certainly not! And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!

[SPKrazy]

5. Damned Right!

some people should be extrapolated :P

[wildhorses]

4. sorta like

fake it til you make it:shrug:

[SPKrazy]

6. Well yeah it is horsey!

just like that

:hi:

[Redstone]

7. "Right Thinking," and "Right Acting," by whose standards?

Just curious.

Redstone

[SPKrazy]

8. By your own standards...

really it's fake it 'til ya make it

it's an old saying, the idea is that one can act themselves into thinking differently better than they can think themselves into acting differently.

Say for instance I want to stop doing something, will I have better luck talking myself into change, or acting myself into thinking differently about it?

that's it

:hi:

[idgiehkt]

9. move a muscle, change a thought

I think action is the key. And the thing about "thinking your way into right living" is you get into "the paralysis of analysis" very, very easily. So I think "living your way to right thinking" is better, unless you are so compulsive that in your haste to get those muscles moving you get propelled right back into the compulsive behavior. There's a platter full of platitudes for you. As a Virgo I am such an analyzer that I really couldn't even comprehend that saying when I heard it first. I'm still suspious of it, but "move a muscle, change a thought" has always worked for me. :hi:

[SPKrazy]

12. That's Really An Interesting Statement

because it is true, to move a muscle, thought is involved in some way

so move a muscle change a thought.

interesting thing to say actually it crosses my mind that motion of any kind is a self soothing thing for some people, I know it is for me. I jiggle my leg a lot when I'm sitting, people think I'm nervous, I don't feel nervous when I'm doing it, but I do feel fidgety. Sometimes it has a calming effect on me. It seems to agitate those around me often. :rofl:

[idgiehkt]

13. for people on the autism spectrum those kind of movements are called

"stims" short for self-stimulation. Oops, it just occurred to me with what you do for a living that you might already know that, lol.

[Redstone]

10. Jeez, I don't have an answer for you. Though I can say that acting cheerful does help

work your way out of a bout of clinical depression, at least for me in the past. Not all by itself, but it can help the medications work.

Just my experience. Your mileage may vary.

Redstone

[SPKrazy]

11. No, That's A Good Example

if you are depressed you can sit around and try to think yourself out of it, or you can take action: meds, therapy, activity of some kind, socialization, meditation, exercise, fake it 'til you make it, anything damned near really.

[NMDemDist2]

14. it's the only way I've ever changed a habit

doing it different over and over took a lot of mental discipline

does that make sense??

:crazy:

[SPKrazy]

15. Doing It Over and Over took a lot of mental discipline...

no, it makes no sense whatsoever!


:P

[NMDemDist2]

22. doing it DIFFERENT

"Different" being the operative word here....

ya dirty old man you :P

[Shine]

20. I've heard somewhere it takes 21 days for an action to become a habit

there's something to be said for repetition, in other words. :D

[NMDemDist2]

21. i heard 120 days

:shrug:

[cwydro]

16. I need to try this.

I think

[Little Wing]

17. That's the paradox of the right-wing

They're just about always wrong

[Orsino]

18. Depends. Is that inside or outside the paper bag?

'Cuz that might be a problem, so I've been told.

[Shine]

19. You can change the way you feel by changing the way you act.

For example, if one is feeling down, sometimes some light exercise, literally moving one's body, will shift the energy and lift one's spirits.

I believe it's all a matter of aligning Mind, Body and Spirit to create Right Action.

Your question is an interesting one.

I interpret "Right Thinking" to be the sort of thinking that is empowering and uplifting, as opposed to negative and depressive.

:hi: Southpawpicker! :hug:

[Unvanguard]

23. No, genuinely right action is impossible without right thinking

and coercing the appearance of right action just tends to get people to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, or, even worse, just fake doing the right thing when it's absolutely necessary, while doing the wrong thing in other cases.

That said, right thinking without a culture and system of behavior that expresses it often stagnates and does little good.

[cwydro]

24. I am not sure about that

I think I have to THINK first...but I might try this, lol, starting Monday.

[datasuspect]

25. if you hang out in a barbershop long enough

you're gonna get a haircut

keep it simple stupid

think, think, think

time takes time

this too shall pass

don't forget rule 62

[Nikia]

26. You have to be thinking a little bit right to act

Or there is no way that you will act right in the process without heavy coercion. Even then, if you don't let down your mental opposition a little bit, acting won't do any good.
I am thinking along the line of addictions and other destructive behaviors.
It is not that you have to believe 100% that giving up the habit is the best thing that you could do, but you have to believe it enough to stick with a plan of action long enough that the action starts you thinking better.