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A friend wrote:
We are what we think. We live in our mind because our mind manufactures our reality. Our eyes see, our ears hear yet the narratives and meanings come from our mind.
The mind controls our feelings and emotions be it positive or negative via the narratives and articulation. Each of us will see the same event yet the narrative and meaning differ because of the processing by our mind.
Our mind is our comaend centre that processes all the information captured by our senses. Each sensory experience will then be hardwired and deposited into our brain for future reference.
Our behaviours and reflexes come from this brain depository based on the matching of sensing, interpretations, and perceptions. Without any match, the mind then creates and develops the new depository for the brain to archive.
The firs--time experience that will then become a term of reference. Our mind is very capable of generating both positive and negative thoughts depending on many factors. The worrisome thing is, negative thoughts generated by the mind turn into our endless worries. The persistent negative thoughts and constant worrying become a mental health trap.
We are no longer able to live healthily as we are too consumed by our “what can go wrong” imagination. This slowly develops into mental health challenges as every event is now seen and matched with a negativity template in our mind. We can become a mental health wreck, believing in what our mind tells us. we surrender ourselves to our mind. We blame the world for our miseries, which are narrated and imagined by our mind.
Our mind becomes our liability for our mental state. Watch carefully what our mind tells us consistently. We can become slave to negatively immersed immersed mind over matter.
This is why mindfulness of “what it is” and not “what it should be” narrative can hack and reverse the negative imagination trap. Always see things for “what it is” without the imagination, training our mind to be neutral. Letting go is the new strength, impermanence in life is a fact.
I replied:
Life gifts us us episodes of pain -the individual has to find ways to recover from such pain - when others are in pain, you share methods that worked for you, but they may not find such methods bringing quick relief, so the experiment continues.
