Default Settings

Everyday, when we awake, our mind may want to re-establish a comfortable and familiar state. It may look to external things, events and people for how it should be shaped or look for specific things or beaten ideas around which to form itself for the day. It will tend to form itself into a shape that is created from without. From external assessments, that have been internalized. It will try to measure itself against something outside of itself and respond in predictable, well worn ways. It doesn't have to be this way, some people do, and everyone can, take a more active role in their default mental settings. They focus on what they want to create or become in the day and surf the random tides to better balance from a resourceful state. A state they have an initiative, an agenda, that is not a reflection of anything outside and yet is the more powerful way to mold the outside to one's intent. So at times, during the day, it may be interesting to see if we have reverted to our defaults, whether we are looking outside of ourself for direction or meaning for our day or its events. And it might be useful, if we have reverted to defaults, to tweak some of the settings, and know how to do so. Don't accept the default settings.