What You Need For Your Everyday Mind
“Do you know what you need for your everyday mind?” That is what I haven’t thought about, but it is an interesting question. I am delighted that this question has been asked, so I can think about it and need my everyday mind to think about what I need for my everyday mind.
I think about what I need for my everyday mind is I think that it can be anything, from the things I love to do to the things that are going on politically, to what my children need while I raise them and while they have to go to where they need to be for their activities or friend dates where I have to pick them. Also, what kind of music I want to play on my violin and what music I have to practice for my orchestra rehearsals and concerts. These are different kinds of things that are on my mind every day as I play the violin.
So, there will be a lot that I need for my everyday mind. But also the tools that I need for my everyday mind, like writing in my notebooks what ideas I have for writing my stories, writing a book I want to write. So that I don’t lose anything of what I thought or what ideas I had.
When I think about my mind, I think about what I like to do, what I want to do, what I think is right to do, what I love to listen to, what matters to my life, what I think about the world, how I want to see the world, how I can be a better person.
Also, on my everyday mind I think about the past, the terrible past I had, what I can do to make that the past and not thinking about it a lot, but know how to cope with these events happened in my past and create habits that make it easier live with it and eventually being more in peace with myself and with what I am content with how and when and what I am doing in my life and what makes me truly happy.
I think you’re searching for everything you love, what you want in your life, what makes you happy, what you think about political issues and so on, for every day.
Every day I am looking for what kind of person I am, who I want to be. To continue my search, to continue what I love to do, there are tools, instruments, anything else that I need to use. Like I use my laptop writing this story.
All these issues are on my mind, for things I have to do I need my mind, to use my mind I have my brain. In the past, I trained my brain to think, to think about these political issues, I trained to be a decent amateur violinist, I trained to be a writer and I learned the tools for being a writer, I learned how to ask questions while I’m interviewing the local politicians, I learned to present my radio program I am doing every three weeks. All I used how to do this, was using my mind.
You have to ask yourself questions about how you use these tools for what you do every day.
But how do you use your mind? That is what is very different for everyone else. I mean, when I play the violin, I do it the way it is good to me, but it could be different for the professional as I am an amateur violinist. When I am parenting, I am doing it differently then you do, I assume, but I have to use my mind how I will solve the issue I am facing at that moment.
However, I am using my mind to think about anything that comes up in my mind.
In any case, you already know what you need for your everyday mind. You feel exactly what you need for your everyday mind, but little dare to listen to their heart, it’s exactly there. You have to know the right tool for yourself for how you use your mind for that specific issue you’re facing at that moment, the thought(s) you have, the music you play, the music you hear, the painting you are looking at in the museum, and everything else you’re doing.
How you’re using your mind is up to you, what you’re doing at that moment. You have the tools in your system, even if you don’t know it, only you have to find it.
You learned that as a child or doing your life.
It so beautiful when people do have a different mind — thus an opinion or habit — for the same thing, but as we are different, we are doing things differently, or we think differently about the same topic.
I think there is no real rule on how to know what you need for your everyday mind as that is different for everyone else. That is why we are so unique. You have it in your system, only you found it, or you still have to fin it.
This story has been published earlier on Quora.
Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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