If you feel like you’re stuck on autopilot, you’re not alone
August 28, 2017
The human brain is a strange and wonderful thing. If we know about how our minds work, we can be intentional about influencing our own thinking and feeling patterns.
Paying more attention to the present moment – to your own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around you – can improve your mental wellbeing.
But very often, our mind is switched on an autopilot. It is your daily routine, your habits, things that have been learnt long time ago. It is when your mind is on autopilot, instructing your body to perform, without you being aware of it. And that is when our behavior tends to become repetitive. On one hand, auto-pilot functioning is the brilliance of the brain at work. We don’t have to learn certain things over and over again. Your mind is on the autopilot mode more than you are aware of. Our brains are simply incapable of scanning the sea of potential choices that surround us moment to moment and thoughtfully considering every possible decision we can possibly make. Instead, our brains leave it up to our unconscious to make the vast majority of choices about our behaviors.
Are you stuck on autopilot? If you feel like you’re stuck on autopilot, you’re not alone. According to a study by Daniel Gilbert and Matthew Killingsworth, 46.9% of people are unhappily mind wandering at least 30% of the time. In order to live a life with intention, it’s important to make sure you don’t slip into autopilot mode too often.
Try to turn the autopilot off. Become more aware. It can help you enjoy life more and understand yourself better. If you just decided to change something in your life, it is impossible to do so when you are operating on autopilot.
One of the major and most effective ways to turn off your autopilot is to understand that you are passively making excuses for inaction every day.
Plan your future. Actually plan what you are going to do today, tomorrow, next week, next year and for the rest of your life. It pulls you out of the past and out of the future and puts you in the present.
Set goals. Start with little something to be reached. Every day. You will go to bed happy.
If you can think it up, then you can do it.
Are you in control of your life? Take the challenge. Break the patterns that are holding you back and start living life fully in control.
Turn of the autopilot.
But very often, our mind is switched on an autopilot. It is your daily routine, your habits, things that have been learnt long time ago. It is when your mind is on autopilot, instructing your body to perform, without you being aware of it. And that is when our behavior tends to become repetitive. On one hand, auto-pilot functioning is the brilliance of the brain at work. We don’t have to learn certain things over and over again. Your mind is on the autopilot mode more than you are aware of. Our brains are simply incapable of scanning the sea of potential choices that surround us moment to moment and thoughtfully considering every possible decision we can possibly make. Instead, our brains leave it up to our unconscious to make the vast majority of choices about our behaviors.
Are you stuck on autopilot? If you feel like you’re stuck on autopilot, you’re not alone. According to a study by Daniel Gilbert and Matthew Killingsworth, 46.9% of people are unhappily mind wandering at least 30% of the time. In order to live a life with intention, it’s important to make sure you don’t slip into autopilot mode too often.
Try to turn the autopilot off. Become more aware. It can help you enjoy life more and understand yourself better. If you just decided to change something in your life, it is impossible to do so when you are operating on autopilot.
One of the major and most effective ways to turn off your autopilot is to understand that you are passively making excuses for inaction every day.
Plan your future. Actually plan what you are going to do today, tomorrow, next week, next year and for the rest of your life. It pulls you out of the past and out of the future and puts you in the present.
Set goals. Start with little something to be reached. Every day. You will go to bed happy.
If you can think it up, then you can do it.
Are you in control of your life? Take the challenge. Break the patterns that are holding you back and start living life fully in control.
Turn of the autopilot.
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