How Well Do You Know Your Mind?

 

The Power of the Mind 

Basically The Mind is like an iceberg. We are really only aware of a small part of the mind, the Conscious Mind, because that is what we see, use and interact with on a deliberate level. It is like the portion of the iceberg that is above the surface. Our conscious mind controls our analytical, judgemental and critical thinking as well as our short term memory and will power. However, the biggest part of our mind, more than 80% of our total psychological processes and the bulk of who we actually consider ourselves to be is embodied in our Subconscious Mind.

                                                                                                                                                

Our fears, habits, emotions, our automatic body functions such as the heart beating, our breathing, walking, talking and nearly everything else we do automatically is controlled by the Subconscious Mind. Our long term memories and our creative faculties are both subconsciously stored, controlled and accessed when the need arises. Everyone has the natural ability to tap into their Subconscious Mind, the 80% of their psychological process that hide below the surface, so as to create the positive changes they are looking for in their lives.

Identification with the Conscious Mind

Identification with your mind is really just an attachment to what constitutes the Conscious Mind. Attachment to the mind, the thought processes we think of as ourselves, creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgements and definitions that blocks all true unadulterated experience of the world we live in. We constantly view the world through a filter of learned and interpreted beliefs that impacts on our perception of the world. This perception of the world is influenced by our upbringing and our beliefs, which in turn influences how our minds interact with the world. Two different people may believe different things about the same object or situation, both believing their view to be true, and both people, are equally justified in their views of the world the hold, neither being right or wrong about their perception.

 

The mind is a tool of the body. What most people do not realise is that the mind is actually subservient to the higher self, but is very hard to switch off. The mind is responsible for all the Self Talk we are subjected to from all the daily input it receives. The mind uses any input given it from the world as fuel for its activities be it mews media, physical activity, quiet self contemplation or the affections and attentions from a loved one,the mind uses all our experiences and input as fuel for its activity. When we provide it with fuel that doesn’t further our purpose, goals, desires or other activities in the world, then its activities can have a negative effect on our disposition and view of the world. If we provide it with positive joyful experiences then it will focus on positive activities.

The Minds True Place in the Scheme of Things

 

How do we control the mind? Stop thinking, or try to think of positive things? Not being able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal (Tolle, Power of Now, 2008, p.14).

The mind and the activity of the conscious mind are actually a lower level function of the body. The body is easily able to survive without the activity of the conscious mind (disregarding the need for sustenance) as all the bodies important functions, respiration, cardiac activity, digestion, immune responses etc, are carried out autonomically (subconsciously) and without active input from your conscious mind.

Separation from the mind, the ability to observe the mind detached from its activities, according to Eckhart Tolle, is one of the objectives of enlightenment and is the primary way we will all experience true peace (of or from the mind). Self Development assists in this process of self reflection and analysis in order to help us gain better control over our thoughts, desires and feelings. Exercising control over these areas of our psyche also allow us greater freedom and focus when we are required to make choices and decisions about our life path, our objectives in relation to goal setting and desires, and also assists us in working towards our objectives in many ways.

How to Control the Mind  

There are many things we can do to separate ourselves from the incessant mental noise or what is known as the compulsive thinker, which prevents people from finding that realm of inner stillness. The best technique for salvation from the effects of incessant thinking is meditation and breathing exercises, where we can find true peace and satisfaction from the day to day issues that most people face.

  

Eckhart Tolle refers to this state of inner stillness as just being or living in the now in the truest sense, and it is this state that is pursued by Buddhist monks, Yogis’, and millions of people fed up with the information saturation the modern world has immersed us in.

 

He says that the Power of Now is not in the time of now, but it is the place that Now is experienced. This place of Now poses several problems for the mind. Because the mind can only use your experiences as the basis of its fuel, the minds value to someone ‘living in the moment’ is greatly diminished.

All in all, as a human being we should master in our own mind in order to get survive in this world , in turn to attain our goals as a whole. Just keep it up and enjoy your life, therefore the degree of  positive joyful experiences will be in your hand as well.

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