Your Mind's Hidden Language
Instead of wondering about “reading minds” of other people, we have a different task to tackle.
You may remember, we’ve discussed the metaphysical aspect of life, and how we should all take more interest in it.
Your body doesn’t communicate to you in English or other spoken language. That should be obvious. But it isn’t obvious what language it does speak to you in.
One thing you might note, is how tiredness manifests itself.
“Oh, I hate the rigmarole of exercising regularly.”
“Oh, working on this project is so boring.”
Yet, at other times, exercising or working is just fine.
It’s one of those finer points that brings to mind an old saying, “Listen to your body,” but that saying doesn’t really express or explain the how of that listening.
Something Odd
Have you ever noticed this weird trait? Regarding a used car, people will often ask, “Has it ever been in an accident?”
Instead of being a prudent question, it’s somewhat of a dumb question. (Not to mention the fact that we don’t ask that question when we should, when it’s a new car, because those get into the weirdest messes, too. Falling off the train, sabotaged in the factory, water damage, hail damage, someone dings it with the forklift... it’s endless.)
In my case, I realized that I was hoping to hear, “No,” because I liked the car in question. Not a good way to ascertain information.
(Lawyers in court never ask things they don’t already know the answer to.)
After all, the seller might have a different definition of “accident,” from the one you or I have. He might lie, or not know himself.
Really, the best approach is to examine for signs of accidents, then question later, if you find evidence, to test the seller’s honesty.
There are numerous tests. Especially easy are looking for evidence of repainting, like paint over-spray, or noting if the car tracks straight and clean on the road.
But listen: the question reveals a personal egregious zone, the “gullibility zone.”
Knowing about the gullibility zone is valuable, in that it tells us not to ask rhetorical questions when buying cars. But it’s more than that. It tells us something about our internal feelings when those may not be clear.
It’s not just our bodies, but our own minds that don’t speak to us in English.
Lying to Ourselves
Self-deception is a huge problem. We lie to ourselves all the time.
Speaking of shopping, particularly car-shopping, a big question is, “Can I afford this?” Of course not — no one can. We may be able to pony up the bux to take the car off the showroom, but we don’t consider the lifetime expenditure, and that’s a form of lying to ourselves. The used-car lot had a 2024 Jeep Gladiator on display, and that wasn’t the only 2024 model. Hey — that’s this year! The original purchaser of that really did have eyes bigger than his wallet, but he was just a little more optimistic than most. Everyone buying a new car is being buggered, especially these days when the sellers have really thrown off the shackles of sanity with their high prices.
Foolishness in Our Beliefs
There are a lot of silly assumptions and bad ideas we carry around.
You’ve probably heard something along these lines:
“It’s like we have a psychic bond. I was just thinking of him, and he called!”
Another fallacy, that should be easy to see through. You know, I’ve never thought of someone I don’t know, and he called! And no one else has, either. That should tell you right there, there is no “psychic power” flowing around to make you predict phone calls.
The fact is, if you’re thinking of someone who then calls, it’s because it’s someone you think of fairly often anyway.
Also, again, for the millionth instance, we don’t appreciate the way things work and want to cloud them under an umbrella of “the paranormal,” shroud them in silly mystery, to fuel the “World of Wonder” compulsion.
Your “internal language” is informing you that this person tends to call at the time when you were thinking of him.
The language that our “mind” speaks to us in, isn’t English, or our native tongue, but “mindian,” or “mind-ese,” or... well, you get the picture.
It expresses itself through “feelings,” but if we aren’t very discerning, those feelings can lead us in the wrong direction. Which highlights the necessity for self-awareness and self-examination, thinking about why we do the things we do, and if those things are sensible or can be discarded, replaced or reworked.
So, instead of wondering about “reading minds” of other people, we have the big task of learning to read our own minds.
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