Our Heads are Small Spaces

Yesterday morning someone was talking about "being in his head all of the time," and then he said, "and our heads are such small spaces." I really took this to heart, enough to write about it. Sometimes we are so wrapped up in our heads that we don't learn from others, or from anywhere else for that matter. If we just continue to stay in our thoughts, with our opinions and our beliefs, we will not grow. And isn't that what life is all about? It is important to share, listen, not isolate, and to get outside of our own minds. Today I heard that "it's fine to think, but...thinking, thinking, thinking?" In other words, what good does it do to think the same thoughts over and over again leading us to be obsessed about something.  Obsessing causes us to lose our focus and distracts us. It also stresses us and uses up our psychic energy. Excessive thinking can be likened to what people call a hamster on a wheel, or a monkey on our shoulder. Another thing I have heard is, "that darn committee in my head," meaning all we are working with are the thoughts we have. That can be so frustrating.  If we stay inside our heads all the time, we don't network with others, and networking and sharing are a two way street.  By interacting with others we learn, and they learn from us as well.