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yes, great point
if there's a person who doesn't want to be helped nobody will be able to help them in the end.
it's interesting to thing about these adaptative mechanisms that help us thrive in a challenging world (lol this could be a headline for some kind of animal planet doc)
sometimes I wonder what makes people change... insights? divine inspiration? changes in their neuro circuits or even neuro chemistry?
It's not clear if we have free will, but at least we have the illusion that we have it, so might as well live a life that takes advantage of that.
This might get a bit too crazy, but at a quantum level, reality doesn't really "exist" until you observe it. So, basically let's say an electron can be in many positions with different probabilities. The moment you observe it, it is exactly at one location. You can read about the double-slit experiment to have an idea of what I'm talking about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experimentSo, in the same way, your attention creates your thoughts, which then are transformed into action in the real world. In a way, your attention defines your life, I think it's similar to the process of observing a particle, and therefore making it "real" from potential realities that it was before.
many will say that we create our reality, I like the idea too that when your mind open up for a new idea it never gets back to the original size again (was it Einstein?)
now, how sure are you that attention creates thoughts? maybe there's a stream of thoughts that could happen regardless of your attention but you can uses your attention to keep them or leave them...