Doing Saying Thinking

Thinking can prevent you from both saying and doing many things.  Thinking is not saying or is it doing/acting.  Thinking is always and ever a virtual action until the act of saying or an actual action is affected.

Doing, saying and thinking are participles and they modify nouns: "What is John doing?"  They are a type of verb, which functions to express actions and are similar to adjectives as they also modify actions.

A person can engage in the action of saying something or doing something but wouldn't it seem somewhat odd to say that they were engaged in the action of thinking?  Not entirely and I am not attempting to claim that thinking and acting are mutually exclusive behaviors.  People just usually make an overall distinction between thinking and behaving, and that they are never the same thing.

But I would like to distinguish and clarify some basic human functions: behavior (acting), saying (language) and thinking (cognition), so it may benefit the process if one was to distance and distinguish the terms.  

Ultimately it is probably the case that all of the terms are synonymous and are only differentiated for pragmatic, utilitarian, and everyday reasons--"I am thinking right now about the action I would like to take."  Further it is quite possible that some instances of mental health disfunction are based on how an individual's extreme differentiation of these processes (thinking/saying/behaving) lead them to focus too much on any one of the three to the detriment of the others and themselves.

For example: Someone may engage in the behaviors of working, blogging and dating.  Any behaviors/actions can be inserted into this chain.  All of these are examples of someone doing something.  The question regarding mental health would be then to what degree (quality/quantity) does this individual achieve the outcomes they desire regarding each behavior that they have consciously chosen to engage?  Ultimately, what barriers do they place before themselves (normally unconsciously) and conversely, what barriers do they encounter that are not self-imposed but that they are incapable of overcoming?  Was it simply a goal too high and out of their range?

Let us say that for this example the individual we are referencing is proficient in a descending ability:  They are very good at their work life, they have moderate ability to blog and their dating life is abysmal.  Why would it be that they are incapable of transferring their capabilities to function very effectively at work to boost their blogging ability and then completely transform their dysfunction at dating?

The simple answer is that they are assessing the data points related to the other two tasks in a different manner than the task that they are proficient.  Granted these "tasks" are highly divergent when viewed from the outside but once an individual begins to analyze the individual components in a objective, abstract and metaphorical way, that is through psychotherapy, then the associations and similarities begin to become quite evident.  When the similarities are uncovered the potential for change is engaged because the unconscious barriers are discovered through comparison with the higher functioning behaviors, aka work in this example.  

There potentially are little to no barriers in some parts of your life.  Let's identify those!, no matter how small it may initially seem, because it can be utilized to cast a bright, shining light on the other areas that are troubling and undiscovered.

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