100 Pure Thoughts: Cultivating Purity One Thought at a Time

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This in itself can seem discouraging – how can I possibly stay pure in my thought life, when many of those thoughts are involuntary? Paul gives us a clue when he writes “… in me (that is in my flesh) nothing good dwells … For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice … I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.”Romans 7:18-21. From this it is clear that there is a difference between the “me” that is my flesh, and the “me” that is my mind, or will to serve God. Then I can ask: who is the real “me?” Granato, G., A. Borghi, and G. Baldassare. 2020. A computational model of language functions in flexible goaldirected behaviour. Scientific Reports 10: 21623. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78252-y. Worries about the future. For example, getting intrusive thoughts about you or a loved one getting ill or hurt. Or something bad happening in the world. Meteyard, L., S. R. Cuadrado, B. Bahrami, and G. Vigliocco. 2012. Coming of age: a review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics. Cortex; A Journal Devoted To The Study Of The Nervous System And Behavior 48: 788–804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2010.11.002.

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Shapiro, L., ed. 2014. The Routledge handbook of embodied cognition. London and New York: Routledge. But for those of us with OCD, our need for certainty can make our symptoms worse. It's very common for those of us with OCD to worry about whether we really have OCD. This is sometimes called 'meta OCD'. Worrying about your relationships. For example, having doubts about whether a relationship is right. Or worrying people may dislike you or leave you. This can be about anyone in your life, including your partners, friends, family members or strangers. Schloegel, C., and J. Fischer. 2017. Causal reasining in non-human animals. In The Oxford Handbook of Causal reasoning, ed. M. R. Waldmann, 699–716. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Godfrey-Smith, P. 2016. Other minds. The Octopus and the evolution of Intelligent Life. London: HarperCollins Publishers.

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One might object to the first claim (that some instances of inner speaking are instances of thinking), instead arguing that thinking and inner speaking are two separate and distinct cognitive acts. And while inner speaking is performed in a natural language, thinking is performed in an LoT. Compulsions are repetitive things that you feel you have to do to reduce the distress or uncertainty caused by obsessions. Diaz, R. M., and L. E. Berk (eds.) 2016. Private Speech. From Social Interaction to Self-Regulation. London and New York: Routledge (first published 1992 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.). Note that I am not claiming that all structured thought is linguistic in nature. There might be structured thought that does not result from imposing syntactic structure on lexical items. Rules, for example, provide structure; structured thought thus only requires the application of a rule to more basic items, whatever these may be (as in a conditional—a common notion or ‘rule’ in neuropsychology; cf. Bunge and Wallis 2008). The distinction between (otherwise) structured thought and linguistically structured thought is important to keep in mind, especially if we assume an evolutionary perspective and aim to explain how complex thought might have evolved.Sometimes OCD is separated into 'types'. For example, you may hear people talking about 'contamination OCD' to mean obsessions and compulsions about dirt or germs. Fernyhough, C. 2016. The Voices within. The history and science of how we talk to ourselves. London: Profile Books Ltd.