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HAPPY MINDS TO JOYFUL LIVING - TAMING THE BEAST

 HAPPY MINDS TO JOYFUL LIVING - TAMING THE BEAST We have looked in our previous blogs, what is the apt relationship to maintain with our mind ? and why we need to maintain so?. In the current blog we look at, what is commonly referred to as the chatter of the mind. MIND'S CHATTER TO MINDFULNESS We talked about the constant information pounding of the mind, What does this result in ? More information being stored and memory links forming over time. One of the major consequences of this is the amplification of the existing chatter in the mind. CHATTER or THOUGHTS Until now we have not touched upon the subtle aspect of the mind which is the "thoughts". The seemingly unorganized and repeated thoughts and it pattern's are generally referred to as the chatter. Everyone hears, see them for themselves and understands what is going on. The inner voice is a constant companion, never fixed ever changing, moving from one extreme to another. Like it or not constantly going on. An ...
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HAPPY MIND TO JOYFUL LIVING - Mind your words - Interpretation

HAPPY MIND TO JOYFUL LIVING -  Mind your words - Interpretation

In our previous blog we looked at what type of relationship we need to nurture with our mind for the times we live in. In the current and upcoming blogs we look at the aspects of the mind which are deeply personal in nature.

Words and its Interpretation



It is often said that one of the gifts that distinguishes Humans from animals is the gift of speech and smile.

Many times I find myself preoccupied and wondering how communication would happen with the other person if there were no words or languages ? May be communication happens through signs, symbols or through sounds but what would we communicate to the other person?

Information, links and memory

In present times with the vast information available to us in different forms (words, pictures, videos, animations, etc.) we are constantly exposed to this information and our mind keeps adding this information as memory, in addition to that it builds links to the stored memory in a way that is personal and unique to the individual.

The information which is turned into memories by the mind are linked and stored as sensations, emotions, knowledge, vivid images.

Communication

Say suppose two friends out on a long evening walk, are engaged in a deep discussion about something they saw during their walk say a tree. What is happening here ?, Each person in his own mind is looking for links in his stored memory which has something to do about the tree.

The link can be an emotional one, or something which he has observed about the tree, or an event that happened near the tree, Each person then using his mind recollects it, reorganizes it and shares it to the other person. Just for perspective the time frame of this entire sequence of process happening is with in a blink of an eye or two.



Words, Meanings

We saw how the mind transforms information to memory, Words are unique in the sense the mind finds links to the stored memories very quickly, Say when we hear the word "ice cream" the mind can bring up so many things about the ice cream, the taste of it, the experience of eating it, where it is available, plans for eating it. It brings up so many secondary memories associated with the word "ice cream".

In case of words, mind has a free reign words to bring up all kinds of memory links, but in case of an pictures the mind limits it memory links to the picture on display. Say we display a beautiful picture of mountain the mind limits itself to finding memory links about mountains, in case of the hearing the word beauty the mind starts its memory link finding without any restrictions.

Triggers and Madness

Mind doesn't discriminate between storing pleasant or un pleasant experiences, it just stores it as memories. While bringing up the memory links it brings up everything with no discrimination. Where and why the discriminations happens are a topic for a different blog.

This has been observed so many times people really getting mad at hearing an opinion (a set of words) they would go off like pop corn in hot pan, but the same person if they view an alien from Mars subjecting his alien enemy to extreme torture in silence will be shocked to silence. For the sake of not promoting violence we are using aliens from Mars and his enemies.

The point here is for vivid images the mind needs time for processing but that is not the case for words, So we currently seeing lot of bursting pop corns on hearing an opinion. Just understanding that the mind is bringing up memory links which is its job reduces the compulsive need for us to be a jumping pop corn.

Happy minds make happy people and the planet a pleasant place to live.

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