6 Habitual Thought Patterns
“What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.”
Leonard Orr, Writer and philosopher
“It took a long time for my thinking to get this messed up, so it's going to take a long time for it to get sorted out…”
This simple piece of “received wisdom” echoes through the world of addiction-recovery, and it reveals a basic confusion about the mind: People tend to think, speak and act as though their thoughts have the same qualities as the material world. We all write down phone numbers, notes and to-do lists; because we recognize that our thoughts are fleeting and ephemeral. Yet we don't seem to remember that fact in other areas of our lives. Consider the following statements:
- “The company's issues are really deep-rooted ...
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