The Power of Our Mind..
Just was thinking about how we go about our daily lives...with our brain controlling or well at least sending the signals to the rest of our body, conveying what WE want to do..or "think" we want to do. Then you know...it's so weird how at times our brain can just take over us, and we are left sitting there wondering how we've become a prisoner of our brain. It's like this thing is controlling us, but we have no control over IT. I know I'm probably not making any sense...or maybe I am. But here's the thing; when people get emotional over something and then depressed. What happens initially is that our emotions are us, we are happy because we feel good..then, this monster (our brain) becomes so sad, and we have no control of making it better. All we can do is sit back and watch, and hope that over time..it'll heal. Otherwise you try out the St. John's Wort, or get the Paxil going, but going about it the natural way is better.
Another case to bring out my point clearly. So surely there are people out there (not me), who decide to do drugs. Then once they are addicted..they might know it's bad and would like to quit..but what's preventing them from doing it is this monster in their head which has become addicted to it (drug). And man..does the brain take it's time to heal!!!
Anyways it's all about chemical imbalance..just looked at it in a different perspective. Makes me wonder at times, if we are really the "rulers" of ourselves..or is there some bigger higher power beyond our conscience (yet inside us) controlling our every action....that being other than just a chemical imbalance..and other than the religious God controlling us perspective.
I know..very non-structured argument..hopefully I made sense..and hah Oprah inspired me to write this one! ;)
1 Comments:
our brain is like a complex network of connections. if we perceive something that triggers certain feelings then we are left to feel like we have no control over that feeling. but we can also deduce why that cause created that reaction and attempt to alter our reaction to such stimuli in future situations.
I strongly doubt that there is something higher than ourselves in our brain besides our brain. unless you wanna call our subconscious higher than our conscious.
But our brains, and more importantly, our psychological minds are wired to need and crave certain pleasures. Those create addictions. Buddha taught of the 4 noble truths which say that there is suffering, then speaks of the cause of suffering, then of the end of suffering, and finally the path to get there. From one webpage, I read this example of the cause of suffering:
Beside physical suffering, there are also various forms of mental suffering. People feel sad, lonely or depressed when they lose someone they love through separation or death. They feel irritated or uncomfortable when they are forced to be company of those whom they dislike or those who are unpleasant. People also suffer when they unable to satisfy their limitless needs and wants.
When the Buddha said that there is suffering in life, He did not deny that there is happiness also. On the contrary, He spoke of various kinds of happiness, such as the happiness of friendship, the happiness of family life, and so on. But all these kinds of happiness are impermanent and when one loses them, one suffers. For example, one may like a pleasant and charming person and enjoy his or her company. But when one is separated from that person, the happiness turns into suffering. One suffers because of one's attachment to pleasures that do not last.
...So, while happiness is around and pleasurable, it's also temporary. We create needs to feel good by certain stimuli, and we are affected from external forces. If we like someone and feel they dont like us back, we feel rejection. Or, like the example, if we are with someone we don't like, we feel displeasure of having our state of being influenced by an unpleasant situation.
Through meditation and thought, buddha was able to rise above the natural suffering of life and become enlightened. Personally, I'm not ready to give up all carnal pleasures, but in realizing that our suffering is created through desires which are affecting me negatively, it helps me to rise above it and let go. And the more I practice, the easier it gets.
Maybe I should be writing my own blog about all this, but I also heard a sermon today from a christian speaker. And he was talking about giving up ourselves to god and to rise above our angers and pains. As an example, he said he was waiting for a car to get out of its parking spot, and as it did, he was blocked from getting in it and another car got into the spot. His natural mind wanted to get angry, confront the guy or even do bad things to his car. But he chose to rise above it and give his cares to god and let go. I dont think it requires any belief in a god to rise above it, just as buddha didn't. It's something we're all a part of in this universe, and it's in our minds that we grasp for control and get angry when we hear about something bad that someone said about us, and it's in our minds that lets go and doesn't worry about what someone said about us.
Walk the path and rise above the turmoil in your mind.
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