Getting insight from nowhere this week. Just to expand upon that previous post. Listening to the sub and the hours after is like an intense questioning session. Have you ever had to problem solve something and the best thing to do would be to step away for a bit vs stubbornly push through it? I’ve learned that’s me and these subs. My rest days are when the sub settles further back in my subconscious mind and I get to the real problem solving.
Actually there’s a term for these two modes of thinking. Focused and diffused. Focused is the intense almost tunnel vision thinking. Diffused is the daydreaming/back of the head form. Diffused encourages random connections and a subconscious approach to problems.
In my case, I can’t speak for everyone, I do best presenting my brain with all the questions and then allowing it to operate in the diffuse mode for my rest days. If I keep prodding it with questions my brain never switches, never gets to that random connections point, and consequently I approach things from the same angle and get frustrated. So reconciliation is interesting for me in that if I overexpose myself my pre-constructed beliefs about myself become much more prevalent due to my mind being unable to think outside the box as I would if I was in a more diffuse mode of thinking.
Some stuff to take into consideration if anyone is still hung up on “rest” days. They’re definitely not, I think you’re just switching to a different mode of thought processing.