The Mind games- knowing the monkey within
About The Mind Game
Mind is the screen on which the drama of life is played. It is like the laptop or desktop. The screen not only shows the signals it receives but stores everything that is sent to it, however, trivial it may be.
We are madly chasing wealth to make life comfortable but our sorrows and suffering, sickness and disease keep increasing. If wealth made us happy then every rich man would be happy and healthy.
Just the way google pops up suggestions based on your browsing history, when you visit You-tube, in the same way mind pops up what is stored the most in your mind. What are your thoughts?
Thoughts of joy, peace and love than that’s what the mind had stored but if you have thoughts of sorrow and suffering than that’s what was stored. The physical body responds to the stored information and produces hormone to support it.
Our body is the hardware driven by an invisible software that takes its information from inner and outer world. We do not know what this software is and what is the inner world? We shall talk about this software, which is responsible for lasting happiness.
Mind is invisible (non-material) and brain is physical. They are two entities, the mind sends signals that are processed by the neurons in the brain. Our beliefs, dogmas, learning, likes and dislikes, our ambitions and aspirations are in the mind but are represented by grooves etched in the brain (Known as neural connections).
Our experience of mind being a monkey, restless and disturbed, always on the move is real but that is not the whole story. Mind can be controlled. If you put a pot of water on a gas burner, it starts to boil. If you want to stop the boiling then you switch of the gas.