An article I was reading revealed a fascinating fact of how our mind has the capacity to replay things. Sometimes its those songs that keep playing in loop on our mind that can move us to the point of annoyance and hard to get rid of it from our heads. The reason maybe because they have a catchy tune or rhythm, but the fact is scientific.
Dr. Roy Baumeister explains that if you “listen to a randomly chosen song and shut it off halfway through...the song is likely to run through your mind at odd intervals. If you get to the end of the song, the mind checks it off, so to speak. If you stop it in the middle, however, the mind treats the song as unfinished business….And that’s why this kind of ear worm is so often an awful tune rather than a pleasant one. We’re more likely to turn off the bad one in middle of the song, so it’s the one that returns to haunt us.”.
However, neurologists explain that this phenomenon is not restricted only to songs but even with unfinished tasks and unfulfilled commitments in life which nag our mind. Our decisions are often changed with priorities that need our immediate attention. The trivial ones do linger in our minds, but it is those matters of the soul that have a major impact if we fail to address them completely. We may have started on some important life changing decisions but would have abandoned them halfway through. These are the ones that keep repeating in loop in our minds which cause anxiousness and restlessness.
I often tell people that life is an indivisible whole and it is holistic. We cannot address it in separate parts. For example, when our connection with God is distorted, it reflects in our physical or socio-economic areas. The world is full of cares. Hence, it becomes even more important to set our relationship with the true living God. When we fail to do this our life will be haphazard where restlessness and pain becomes a normal way of life.
Jesus claimed that He came to give abundant life that provides absolute peace and joy. There is no need to go back and forth and live with regrets. The only solution is to submit one hundred percent of your life to the Savior who has the power to forgive your sins and make you clean. He will help you live a guiltfree life. Total commitment to life is not just visiting a religious place regularly and meeting all the rituals and obligations, but it is between you and God. Finding the truth which Jesus Christ offered is the greatest accomplishment of life.
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