The Process of Thinking

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

When the mind interacts with the environment through the 5 senses, it comes across certain external events. Each external event triggers a new thought in the mind. The mind responds to each new thought in a positive, neutral or a negative way. This thought then goes on to trigger a new emotion. This is the basic process of how a thought and emotion gets formed.

To explain it further, the senses of a person interacts with the environment either through see, hear, smell, taste and touch. As the person interacts with the environment a new thought gets formed. This thought at first gets registered in the conscious mind. After that this thought then gets stored to the Subconscious mind. Regular occurence or repetition of the same thought creates a stronger impression in the Subconscious mind. This is the reason why even after many years, a person doesn't forget how to read, write, ride a bicycle, drive a car etc after putting days and weeks of practice. After putting many days of consistent practice, this knowledge gets sharpened in the subconscious knowledge bank. Then after many years, when the person encounters the same incident, this knowledge can be retrieved from the subconscious knowledge bank.

Another feature of thoughts is that one or more thought can also be chained together as a group of thoughts. For example, suppose I get a new thought about my school. Suddenly this thought then gets related to other events related to my school like my classmates, the fun nostalgic moments at school etc. Chaining of multiple thoughts together is also a good way to recollect similar events based on date, location etc. 

Thinking is an focused activity that generates thoughts. When we focus and think on a particular topic, the subconscious mind tries to retrieve any previous experience related to that particular topic. Once this information is retrieved then the subsequent process of analysis, reasoning, rationalizing etc takes place in the mind. This triggers more thoughts related to the topic and so on. 

When we think, we need to make sure that we relax our self. It is only when we are relaxed, calm and composed our thinking process becomes very effective and of good quality. You may have observed many times then when you are stressed your thinking deteriorates and you lose focus on the topic in hand.

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