I had already talked abt personality spilling and transformation and old and new structures. These are fascinating discoveries in themselves.
Actually I dug and found more!
http://paadhiyogi.blogspot.in/2014/05/the-axis.html
http://paadhiyogi.blogspot.in/2014/05/knowing-how-far-you-actually-progressed.html
(It's interesting that I have repeated the same thing, so unknowingly in multiple posts! Atleast shows I'm consistent)
It would be most appropriate to add a course in Jungian psychology at this point of time. I could atleast get a degree in psychology or neuroscience as these are 2 things I have been reading a lot about. Anyway - philosophy, psychology and science are all just different microscopic versions towards the same final goal.
Actually one could get so fascinated by these phenomena that they may not make progress but just sit and admire what a complicated piece of machinery or creation (if I may call so) we are.. our conditioning, beliefs, values, our emotional baggages - the vasanas and skandhas.. the unconscious mind - all are beautiful entities in themselves.
But, the real painful part is transformation. I don't know how many people work hard towards transformation. The problem with me is, I have an unwantedly huge conscience and most people manage with just 1% conscience. A conscientious man cannot sleep well. It's an acknowledged truth.
People who are brutally honest with themselves are not as happy day to day as people with unrealistic assumptions about their abilities.
-David McRaney in You Are Now Less Dumb (this is called the self-enhancement bias).
I totally agree with this. The only reason most people are so happy is ignorance. If they were to see their flaws day in and day out their conscience would kill them. Just because I keep looking at my negatives and try to improve myself, I may look stupid. If I behaved like an ostrich and refuse to acknowledge my flaws, I would feel extremely superior about myself. It's important to acknowledge one's flaws but it's wrong to let that pull you down. You just treat it as something that needs improvement rather than look at yourself as imperfect or as a failure. That attitude is bad. It leads to self hatred and self hatred is the mother of all problems.
This is where I fit in. I have no clue why I expect myself to be perfect, free of flaws. So mistakes done by me are not tolerated. I really don't need enemies. My mind is more than enough. It can make the "real" me a villain, a victim or whatever pleases it. My mind does not tolerate any mistakes. So it has accumulated a whole lot of pain body. Every cell in my body probably undergoes enormous pain.
So, the body itself is in fight or flight mode mostly. I can sense it... a stiffness.. an inability to be free, an inability to laugh child like, an inability to be at ease. Unless you feel at ease and a free flow of energy happens, you're done. So, that's the major thing that needs working. I think a very unconscious childhood, lack of mentors and close friends in early life, unknown negative conditioning by my society - all have led to certain wrong beliefs that have killed the spontaneity. I think I was on the right path, with the right mix of curiosity, courage and innocence. That is the perfect formula for life...to be adventurous.. to love.. and then somewhere society caught up with me, influenced me with "fear", "fear of failure", "societal norms" and dumbed me down and made me dead. All I want now, is to just feel alive. Get back to the same old me.. be a little courageous.. take some risk...love freely.. love myself however I am.. take failures lightly.. work persistently and constantly improve.
There are some deep patterns in us that will take forever to change. In the meanwhile we need to ensure that the old habits do not get a chance to rise their head. If you keep triggering the old self frequently you'll take forever to change.
We keep a linked list for every event, every person and the sound of the person can trigger a million thoughts and if you have a million nodes for that person it's no longer just the mind - your body recognizes the person and responds automatically - let's say you see your mother after a long time. Your body, physical cells recognize the loving person in front of you.
I recently spoke to 2 of my girlfriends, both of who had had a bitter breakup. They had somehow gone to their exes facebook page and found that their ex had gotten married. It triggered a huge downspiral for both of them. Here - the mind is nowhere in picture. You see your ex's pic and the body remembers. The mind doesn't have to think. The damage is already done. Supporting evidence:
http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru/masters-words/the-body-remembers-all/
Based on a couple of sources, here is what I feel:
We know for sure that the mind influences and drives the body. Evolution tries to automate many things. We were a single celled amoeba. We probably needed to do some steps often and frequently. So, evolution automated it for you. Today the most important things for survival are breathing, proper blood circulation, digestion, etc. Evolution of humans - or nature, has automated these for us, because if we screw up, we lose our lives. All essential stuff and those that require fast response are automated, pretty much like today's computer networks and complex systems. Look at a habit.. something that we do in autopilot mode.. are we conscious at all? There have been so many times that I have reached my destination without a clue how I drove. There is certain intelligence here - a primitive intelligence - which happens without conscious mind usage.
It did the thing for me. It maybe the subconscious mind or the physical body. I don't know.. But the thoughts and emotions feed some entity who is more faster than the mind, who responds so fast that there is no auto correction or rationalizing possible. Also, that entity knows the triggers which is why going to some places or seeing some people, automatically puts us in a bad mood or shuts you down. I think your cerebral cortex gets cut off so that you cannot use your intelligence to recover from the bad situation. The reaction happens so unconsciously that you don't even know what hit you. This is why mindfulness is such an important part of Buddhism. It makes sense. You notice what is happening and when you notice more you know the reason.. the causes for such triggers and then you can reason out and bring in change. This seems like a very interesting and important theory. It explains why marketers can successfully make fools of us by placing succinct messages or pictures.. it proves the decisions we make on the go - how we choose to cut through traffic when traffic is high, how we behave when our guards are low, how we make instant choices at the grocery store or shopping mall and later regret. A lot seems to be programmed and the loophole is what marketers use to trick the rational person in us.
Below is a small body of work which may prove the above.
Osho:
Intellect is the functioning of the head, instinct is the functioning of your body, and intuition is the functioning of your heart.
Blink:
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye. Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea. Marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind". He presents examples where the mind works based on biases that don't necessarily enter the realm of conscious thought, but are nevertheless there (age, race, height, and so on).
What Gladwell probably states here could be that there is an automatic mechanism to respond to events. It probably does not involve the conscious mind or conscious thought. Something mechanical.
Eckhart Tolle:
The pain-body is a live entity. It's a semi-autonomous energy form that lives in most human beings.It has its own primitive intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and this intelligence is directed at its survival.
The mammal brain and reptilian brain:
Many human behaviors originate in the reptilian brain.
MacLean argued that all the old structures are active in determining behavior, and that from these different-but-connected brains come not only different behaviors, but also many of the problems human beings face every day.
Human behavior is similar to behavior observed in animals because it arises from those parts of the brain system, like the reptilian brain, that humans and animals share.
====================================================================
Related: Evolution, instinct, adaptive unconcious, habits, auto pilot, cerebral cortex (reptilian, mammal brain).
Actually I dug and found more!
http://paadhiyogi.blogspot.in/2014/05/the-axis.html
http://paadhiyogi.blogspot.in/2014/05/knowing-how-far-you-actually-progressed.html
(It's interesting that I have repeated the same thing, so unknowingly in multiple posts! Atleast shows I'm consistent)
It would be most appropriate to add a course in Jungian psychology at this point of time. I could atleast get a degree in psychology or neuroscience as these are 2 things I have been reading a lot about. Anyway - philosophy, psychology and science are all just different microscopic versions towards the same final goal.
Actually one could get so fascinated by these phenomena that they may not make progress but just sit and admire what a complicated piece of machinery or creation (if I may call so) we are.. our conditioning, beliefs, values, our emotional baggages - the vasanas and skandhas.. the unconscious mind - all are beautiful entities in themselves.
But, the real painful part is transformation. I don't know how many people work hard towards transformation. The problem with me is, I have an unwantedly huge conscience and most people manage with just 1% conscience. A conscientious man cannot sleep well. It's an acknowledged truth.
People who are brutally honest with themselves are not as happy day to day as people with unrealistic assumptions about their abilities.
-David McRaney in You Are Now Less Dumb (this is called the self-enhancement bias).
I totally agree with this. The only reason most people are so happy is ignorance. If they were to see their flaws day in and day out their conscience would kill them. Just because I keep looking at my negatives and try to improve myself, I may look stupid. If I behaved like an ostrich and refuse to acknowledge my flaws, I would feel extremely superior about myself. It's important to acknowledge one's flaws but it's wrong to let that pull you down. You just treat it as something that needs improvement rather than look at yourself as imperfect or as a failure. That attitude is bad. It leads to self hatred and self hatred is the mother of all problems.
This is where I fit in. I have no clue why I expect myself to be perfect, free of flaws. So mistakes done by me are not tolerated. I really don't need enemies. My mind is more than enough. It can make the "real" me a villain, a victim or whatever pleases it. My mind does not tolerate any mistakes. So it has accumulated a whole lot of pain body. Every cell in my body probably undergoes enormous pain.
So, the body itself is in fight or flight mode mostly. I can sense it... a stiffness.. an inability to be free, an inability to laugh child like, an inability to be at ease. Unless you feel at ease and a free flow of energy happens, you're done. So, that's the major thing that needs working. I think a very unconscious childhood, lack of mentors and close friends in early life, unknown negative conditioning by my society - all have led to certain wrong beliefs that have killed the spontaneity. I think I was on the right path, with the right mix of curiosity, courage and innocence. That is the perfect formula for life...to be adventurous.. to love.. and then somewhere society caught up with me, influenced me with "fear", "fear of failure", "societal norms" and dumbed me down and made me dead. All I want now, is to just feel alive. Get back to the same old me.. be a little courageous.. take some risk...love freely.. love myself however I am.. take failures lightly.. work persistently and constantly improve.
There are some deep patterns in us that will take forever to change. In the meanwhile we need to ensure that the old habits do not get a chance to rise their head. If you keep triggering the old self frequently you'll take forever to change.
We keep a linked list for every event, every person and the sound of the person can trigger a million thoughts and if you have a million nodes for that person it's no longer just the mind - your body recognizes the person and responds automatically - let's say you see your mother after a long time. Your body, physical cells recognize the loving person in front of you.
I recently spoke to 2 of my girlfriends, both of who had had a bitter breakup. They had somehow gone to their exes facebook page and found that their ex had gotten married. It triggered a huge downspiral for both of them. Here - the mind is nowhere in picture. You see your ex's pic and the body remembers. The mind doesn't have to think. The damage is already done. Supporting evidence:
http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru/masters-words/the-body-remembers-all/
Based on a couple of sources, here is what I feel:
We know for sure that the mind influences and drives the body. Evolution tries to automate many things. We were a single celled amoeba. We probably needed to do some steps often and frequently. So, evolution automated it for you. Today the most important things for survival are breathing, proper blood circulation, digestion, etc. Evolution of humans - or nature, has automated these for us, because if we screw up, we lose our lives. All essential stuff and those that require fast response are automated, pretty much like today's computer networks and complex systems. Look at a habit.. something that we do in autopilot mode.. are we conscious at all? There have been so many times that I have reached my destination without a clue how I drove. There is certain intelligence here - a primitive intelligence - which happens without conscious mind usage.
It did the thing for me. It maybe the subconscious mind or the physical body. I don't know.. But the thoughts and emotions feed some entity who is more faster than the mind, who responds so fast that there is no auto correction or rationalizing possible. Also, that entity knows the triggers which is why going to some places or seeing some people, automatically puts us in a bad mood or shuts you down. I think your cerebral cortex gets cut off so that you cannot use your intelligence to recover from the bad situation. The reaction happens so unconsciously that you don't even know what hit you. This is why mindfulness is such an important part of Buddhism. It makes sense. You notice what is happening and when you notice more you know the reason.. the causes for such triggers and then you can reason out and bring in change. This seems like a very interesting and important theory. It explains why marketers can successfully make fools of us by placing succinct messages or pictures.. it proves the decisions we make on the go - how we choose to cut through traffic when traffic is high, how we behave when our guards are low, how we make instant choices at the grocery store or shopping mall and later regret. A lot seems to be programmed and the loophole is what marketers use to trick the rational person in us.
Below is a small body of work which may prove the above.
Osho:
Intellect is the functioning of the head, instinct is the functioning of your body, and intuition is the functioning of your heart.
The body cannot rely on your intellect, because the body has to
live. That's why all essential functions of the body are in the hands of
instinct--for example, breathing, heartbeat, digestion of your food,
circulation of the blood. A thousand and one processes are going on
inside your body in which you have no part at all. And it is good that
nature has given body its own wisdom. Otherwise, if your intellect were
to take care of the body, life would have been impossible! Because
sometimes you may forget to breathe--at least in the night, how will you
breathe while you are asleep? You are already so confused just with
thoughts; in this confusion, who will take care about the blood
circulation, whether the right amount of oxygen is reaching your cells
or not? Whether the food that you are eating is being analyzed into its
basic constituents, and those basic constituents are sent where they are
needed? And this whole, tremendous amount of work is done by instinct.
You are not needed. You can remain in a coma; still the body will
continue to work.
Nature has given all essential functions of your body to instinct, and it has left all that makes your life meaningful Blink:
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye. Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea. Marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind". He presents examples where the mind works based on biases that don't necessarily enter the realm of conscious thought, but are nevertheless there (age, race, height, and so on).
What Gladwell probably states here could be that there is an automatic mechanism to respond to events. It probably does not involve the conscious mind or conscious thought. Something mechanical.
Eckhart Tolle:
The pain-body is a live entity. It's a semi-autonomous energy form that lives in most human beings.It has its own primitive intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and this intelligence is directed at its survival.
The mammal brain and reptilian brain:
Many human behaviors originate in the reptilian brain.
An enormous change took place as mammals evolved from reptiles, the mammalian brain containing organs {11, 12}:
We saw that with the mammalian brain emerged feelings such as attachment, fear and anger and associated behavioral response patterns. And human emotional responses depend on neuronal pathways which link the right hemisphere to the mammalian brain {4} which in turn is linked to the even older reptilian brain.
MacLean argued that all the old structures are active in determining behavior, and that from these different-but-connected brains come not only different behaviors, but also many of the problems human beings face every day.
Human behavior is similar to behavior observed in animals because it arises from those parts of the brain system, like the reptilian brain, that humans and animals share.
====================================================================
Related: Evolution, instinct, adaptive unconcious, habits, auto pilot, cerebral cortex (reptilian, mammal brain).
“The
pain-body is a semi-autonomous energy-form that lives within most human
beings, an entity made up of emotion. It has its own primitive
intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and its intelligence is
directed primarily at survival. - See more at:
http://livingwithtolle.com/podcasts/lwt34-anxiety-depression-pain-body-tolle/#sthash.9g8URhpB.dpuf
“The
pain-body is a semi-autonomous energy-form that lives within most human
beings, an entity made up of emotion. It has its own primitive
intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal, and its intelligence is
directed primarily at survival. - See more at:
http://livingwithtolle.com/podcasts/lwt34-anxiety-depression-pain-body-tolle/#sthash.9g8URhpB.dpuf
"past
emotional pain alive in your life today". It is a living entity or
energy field and like a parasite, it stays alive through feeding on your
energy. Without your energy and attention, it would starve.
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
"past
emotional pain alive in your life today". It is a living entity or
energy field and like a parasite, it stays alive through feeding on your
energy. Without your energy and attention, it would starve.
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
"past
emotional pain alive in your life today". It is a living entity or
energy field and like a parasite, it stays alive through feeding on your
energy. Without your energy and attention, it would starve.
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
"past
emotional pain alive in your life today". It is a living entity or
energy field and like a parasite, it stays alive through feeding on your
energy. Without your energy and attention, it would starve.
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
- See more at: http://www.personal-development-inside-out.com/eckhart-tolle.html#sthash.D69gYp3h.dpuf
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