Your Thoughts are Physical Things. It Occupies Mental Real Estate.

Here is why you have to think about what you are thinking. Daily!

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“Thoughts are real, physical things that occupy mental real estate. Moment by moment, every day, you are changing the structure of your brain through your thinking. When we hope, it is an activity of the mind that changes the structure of our brain in a positive and normal direction.”
― Caroline Leaf, Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health

It’s real physical matter

The idea we have about thoughts is that it is “nothing”. It is something floating in the air. More importantly, it is something out there. Not in our minds. It “pops” into our minds. Cartoon and comic book characters have this thinking bubble hanging over them and then their thoughts are in them.

This may have created the idea that thoughts are outside us. Something we do not have control of. I know you can see it in your mind now. It’s those thinking bubbles that look like clouds. It usually is those two small “clouds” and then the big…