So I will continue this thought, and initial success with this premise today.
The genesis of the premise was in considering how to “nip in the bud” the habit of intellectualising continuously. I already know that it isn’t possible to “stop thinking” which is the natural moralistic way of dealing with intellectualism, and I also know that " thinking" isn’t the problem as per the many discussions and examples here and on the AFT of intelligent discussion and thoughtful contemplating being key to making any progress.
It occurred to me the many times a minute that intellectualisation occurred, it’s mainly into fantasy, rumination, imaginary conversations, or winding and incomplete self analysis, imaginary fights with strangers is a popular topic.
However, in all of that, where are the facts?
I wanted to stick with the facts. Are feelings driving ‘intellectualisation’ facts?
Are they telling me what is factually happening around me? Am ‘i’ perceiving anything factual via feelings? Am ‘i’ rather instead blind to facts, and making ‘shit’ up to suit ‘myself’
So, today I felt a lot more freedom to feel good, because I had this premise running all day. Whatever ‘I’ am feeling, has no factual content about the actual world, or even the ‘real’ world of what others are thinking or feeling. They are ‘my’ internal world.
I felt it was a breeze to feel good all day, including commuting both ways to work in gridlock traffic.
I was careful not to go any further with the premise, than what was working to keep intellectualism in check. As soon as something less than feeling good happened, I reminded myself that it contains information on how I can become free of the human condition, (how I tick, allowing me to choose more and more how I feel), but zero facts about what I am seeing, or who I am talking to, or absolutely anything coming in via the senses.
I perceive it to be very freeing! Like the burden of making ‘sense’ of the world has lifted!
The factual world is happening, ‘I’ can concern ‘myself’ with a singular goal; feeling good.
The world doesn’t need ‘me’ ‘worrying’, or any one of the myriad ways ‘I’ proliferate in 'intelectualism '.
Otherwise said, ‘I’ am free to 'mind my own business ', and that business is getting busy feeling good. 