In and Out
The five senses always open to the outside world keeps accumulating data, irrespective of the state of the host. The annamaya kosha even though in different states (Awake, Sleep and Dream) will at all times collect data from the surroundings. The decision maker in each one of us gathers the same and processes it in ways that affects not only the mind, body of one but makes an impact on the surroundings, people and the environment that we live amidst.
It is imperative to filter what goes in voluntarily. Whatever goes in, gets processed, and a biased outcome is produced. Involuntary inputs can be governed by means of conscious meditative practices. Actions are effects to the process that happens due to various influencers including surroundings, opinions, suggestions, thoughts, forecast and many other aspects.
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The best identified way is to meditate. Meditation is a part of life and not to be considered as an event. It is something like breathing. It keeps the mind in the present and instils awareness. This awareness of the ‘self’ is of immense importance and impacts as to how thoughts are processed. Each event is a thought that provokes the mind to process and arrive at a decision. These decisions are highly subjective. It could be as impactful as a political decision or as simple as a deciding which turn to take.
‘Thoughts’ most of the time is about what is yet to happen and predictively things that will never happen! Yet, the mind churns and churns these thoughts and intervenes the actual process and the outcome is something that was never expected. To stop this process of over thinking, the best thing to do is to start living in the Now. Do things on hand and be satisfied.
Mind is a very strong tool. It works at all times in tandem with other parts of the body and keeps taking action and each thought is generating millions of neurones to fire and each firing initiates an action.
For some, the path is very clear and for others it is blurred with a lot of things being thrown at them. Whatever the case is, it is either lived or endured! It all depends on the way things are translated by the thinking mind. When things are thrown at us, we normally get offended and think — “Things are not working as planned”. Can this be rephrased to — “This is something new, and is something that was unexpected. Let’s take up this challenge and as a learning”.
The way we look at things is all what we think! Whatever gets IN gets processed and comes OUT as actions. Keep your mind open and keep mediating!
