Friday 2 October 2015

SOME TOOLS OF THE MIND


What do you see when you close your eyes or when you are in complete darkness? That will be your reality.
Most of the human troubles are caused by their own thoughts. The mind will tell you things that have no proof. Sometimes your mind may even tell you what another person is thinking. Sometimes you may imagine that another is mocking you or is proud of you.  When your mind tells you these things, there is a possibility that it is true but there is also equal possibility that it is all but your imagination.
The same mind has the ability to make you extremely happy. It can focus on the activities you have to do and the joy of it.

The mind is a tool for success and a conduit for enjoying life. It is the only pipe that allows us to experience life. Life passes in and out through our minds. It is actually the only part of our human existence that tells us of our experiences.

The mind being a tool has special features that keep it useful.  One such feature is the ability to filter; it naturally filters a lot of information each day without you knowing. Have you ever stared in a particular direction without really perceiving what is really in front of you until suddenly something that calls for your attention then you find yourself suddenly alert?  If that has ever happened to you then you understand me right.

The ability to filter aids the mind to overcome pain and stress. It also helps the mind discard sort information in accordance to their value in your life. The mind sometimes automatically locks out things that cause trauma. It can also help you when you consciously decide to use it.You can can employ it to eliminate the fear that comes when you have to take action, you can use it to overcome shame and other emotions and thoughts you desire to overcome. It takes sometime but it actually helps.

Another important feature is the ability to focus. This feature is the most important when you intend to achieve goals in life. This feature heavily depends on the ability to imagine. Imagination can paint the goal ahead of you and keep you on truck. The ability to imagine is the foundation for solution of most complex problems in life. It is also the ability that creates new knowledge for our use.

Our imaginations are the doors that paint perfection, though we may never achieve the ultimate perfection in one go, but imagination can slowly lead us. It is only what we can imagine that we can investigate to find the facts that lie behind it. It is only that which we can imagine that we can create for our use.

We interact in the deepest parts of us in imaginations. We need it to interact with all aspects of nature, and live comfortably. We read subtle signals and communicate with our ego through imagination. This gives us either pleasure or pain that we can interpret as pleasure, pain, or indifference. The looks of the eyes, the words we are told, the clothes we wear are all interpreted by our imagination and influence our response. We imagine that sitting in a particular place will make you feel happy or sad. You imagine that someone loves you or hate you; you imagine the possibilities of a great invention. It is all we call creativity and it is our eyes from inside.

Merging the three aspects of the mind is the key to a happy life. You can filter out things that are less important to the goals you aim to achieve. You can control your imagination to avoid lower thoughts such as what would people think of when you take an action that you have seen as morally right and appropriate to achieve your goals.

You can imagine the beauty of your success and focus on achieving it.

You can dare imagine and do things like they have never been done before. Imagine, do not lock yourself. Open up to the world of unlimited possibilities, you can imagine the impossible.

What do you see when you close your eyes or when you are in complete darkness? That will be your reality.


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