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can too much thinking be bad for you.

i realise that if your thinking about the wrong things, it can be. i have experienced this.

u see, my main interests are things like philosophy, politics, psychology. and i realised the other day that i dont spend much time to really focused, concentrated thought on developing well-thought out ideas and strong beliefs and opinions about such matters. my beliefs seem very "loose" and unsupported due to lack of really analysing them in enough depth, and i think this is all due to very vague, light state of thought.

i know that if i spent time really focused upon thinking about such things, i could improve the quality of my arguments, ideas, beliefs, opinions etc. , but are there adverse affects that can spring from this type of hardcore intellectual focus.

i imagine all the great thinkers must have used this type of super-concentrated thinking.

i am thinking of using the new behaviour generator to get me more into this type of focus.

can anyone advise please or add their comments.

thanks.

"The philosopher Descartes believed that he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking."

"The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind."

His message, in my view, is not so much being down on thinking per se (he does say the mind is a great tool once you've learned to use it properly) but to not let thinking and mind identification cheat us out of the only thing we really have - the wonderful present moment.