RE: Are there other paradoxes analogous to the so-called "Paradox of Hedonism"?
July 16, 2020 at 2:53 pm
Reminds me of the trick in mindfulness meditation: If you try to be mindful, you are not, and when you are not mindful, you are. Tossing and turning in bed, attempting to sleep is going about it the wrong way, you just need to relax and stop thinking about trying to sleep. I view it as a bug in cognition, when introspecting one's own thoughts one has a tendency to overthink things instead of just being. Just how long is one able to not think anything? It seems to me to be a constant stream of consciousness, which I've found mindfulness practice is able to interrupt, sorta, making you aware and cogent of your emotions and thinking patterns more attunely.