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Old 02-14-2013, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho View Post

The big problem in my view is that we normally live with an automatic context of who, what and where so we get lazy with our attention. As brain injured, we need to purpose our thoughts more. This is no different that the Stop to Think exercise. If we just stop to think, we can usually reconnect to our reality.
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Learning to live life on purpose rather than on autopilot takes a bit of effort but it becomes a habit.

Hope this helps.
This is the most important part of pretty much all of our lives now.

We are no longer really able to trust our auto-pilots.

We do have to always be attentive to purpose.
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