95% Percent of Our Thoughts Are Repetitive ... But We Can Change That

When we train ourselves to constantly travel back and forth through the swinging door of attention & language, we rewire our brains toward a mode of discovery (and that's great for our writing)

Abandoned passenger train car in Lambertville, New Jersey. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection

Negative thoughts are easy thoughts. That’s because for survival reasons (i.e., taking note of threats in order to stay alive), our brains actually defer to the negative. In fact, according to the National Science Foundation, “80% of our thoughts are negative and 95% of our thoughts are repetitive.” In other words, says Joe Dispenza, author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One, 95% of who we are stems from a set of automatic subconscious patterns.

Dispenza, who is also a chiropractor, did his post graduate training in neuroscience and neuroplasticity, quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) measurements, epigenetics, mind-body medicine, and brain/heart coherence.

“Psychologists tell us that by the time we’re in our mid-30s, our identity or personality will be completely formed. This means that for those…