HOW WE MAKE UP OUR MINDS

Abdul Rahim · #1 09-03-2020, 12:48 PM

We use our minds for thinking and doing daily tasks. Therefore, as a result, the function of the mind must not stop there. Maximise the deeper and more practical use of the mind. In making decisions, real mind power are put to the test. It is not a simple choosing of given choices. This must involve a balancing process. Weighing situations is a difficult activity. Mind power must entail the proper use of knowledge and self awareness. Most importantly, is to recognise as well the importance of the conscious and the subconscious mind. To be able to actualise the secrets of mind power,after that we must use them in righteousness.

inavalan · #2 09-03-2020, 05:55 PM

I would add that human mind barely use, if at all, its next potential function: intuition. We don't use enough our mind creatively, complacently using it reactively.

FallingLeaves · #3 10-03-2020, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by inavalan

I would add that human mind barely use, if at all, its next potential function: intuition. We don't use enough our mind creatively, complacently using it reactively.

i don't know about you but I get slapped around for even thinking about trying to fly....

#4 20-03-2020, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Abdul Rahim

We use our minds for thinking and doing daily tasks. Therefore, as a result, the function of the mind must not stop there. Maximise the deeper and more practical use of the mind. In making decisions, real mind power are put to the test. It is not a simple choosing of given choices. This must involve a balancing process. Weighing situations is a difficult activity. Mind power must entail the proper use of knowledge and self awareness. Most importantly, is to recognise as well the importance of the conscious and the subconscious mind. To be able to actualise the secrets of mind power,after that we must use them in righteousness.

Well spoken. I agree we should try to respect our minds. After all, it is not just about how we make up our minds, but also a matter of how our minds make up us.

inavalan · #5 20-03-2020, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ketzer

Well spoken. I agree we should try to respect our minds. After all, it is not just about how we make up our minds, but also a matter of how our minds make up us.

The way I see it, we should get dehypnotized, lucid, so we can pull back our attention, focus, and use more of our minds.

It is like becoming lucid when you're dreaming: you realize that you are somebody else, whom you've forgotten to be for some reason. Now you can take control of that dream.

#6 20-03-2020, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by inavalan

The way I see it, we should get dehypnotized, lucid, so we can pull back our attention, focus, and use more of our minds.

It is like becoming lucid when you're dreaming: you realize that you are somebody else, whom you've forgotten to be for some reason. Now you can take control of that dream.

Yes, seeing life "through the eyes of the soul" is a goal than many have. It's a good goal and allows one to see from a new and different perspective.
Of course, once one becomes lucid in a dream and takes control, it is no longer the same dream, or even the same dreamer. We strive to wake up and see the dream as the illusion that it is, yet we may find ourselves left in a world that now seems less real. Knowing that the matter is illusory can make everything matter that much less. Pros and Cons to everything I suppose. I enjoy both dramas and documentaries, both help me spiritually, though in different ways.

Starman · #7 21-03-2020, 12:53 AM

Having worked in the people profession for a long time, what I observed is that a lot of the time what people do is impulsive. They make and impulsive decision and then apply logic, or a rationalization to that decision later.

Fear seems to be the biggest motivator for most humans. Most decisions to go to war with another country are done out of fear. In the U.S. the Vietnam War, Gulf War, and Iraq War, were all done or said to be done, out of fear. Individual people also make decisions out of fear. Some people even practice their religion, or spiritual practice, out of fear.

But fear is not the only motivator. There is a need for impulse control; lots of people allow their mind to drag them around and send them on a roller coaster ride. If we do not learn how to use our mind then our mind will use us. I have seen too many cases of this on inpatient psychiatric wards.