If we don’t brush & floss everyday, gingivitis develops creating fowl smell & gum disease. Similarly, if we do not perform mind cleanse everyday, we risk mental sickness. You see mind is like a river flowing with full of new thoughts and emotions every second of the day. Myriad of thoughts & emotions, rational or irrational, just hang around and pollute the mind “river.”These thoughts & emotions must be processed daily otherwise they block the mind “river” and cause stagnation resulting accumulation of brain trash or stress. Once we clear the blockages, we reduce stress.
The challenge is to identify which thought & emotion is rational and which is irrational. This is where our Intellect has to jump in and start earning its keep. Our Intellect must separate the crazy irrational thoughts & emotions and immediately discard or reject them. If for some reason our Intellect is compromised, we will mistakenly accept irrational thoughts and start to live with them creating confusion, conflicts, stress, and basically brain trash. These thoughts need to be “flushed” or “metabolized”.
I suggest use the following techniques for mind cleanse & to reduce stress:
1. We must keep our Intellect sharp and available. Always be aware of your intellectual state. Note the Intellect is not sharp & available when we are angry, depressed, or under the influence of alcohol, drugs, etc. Our thinking ability gets warped or completely stops. Become free of these influences first. It is impossible to reduce stress when the very tool, your intellect, that helps you “flush” brain trash is not available to you.
2. Watch out for the Ego! When a compulsive thought of anger, depression or sensual craving comes in mind, our self-centered conditioning & Ego loves to give attention to it. Mind you a thought has NO power of its own. All the power is in the attention we give. So break undivided attention to selfish & destructive thought by reciting your favorite Mantra. Once the Mantra takes hold, connection between the thought & your attention is broken. The idea here is to have something to break the attention and I have found any Mantra (your favorite) will do the trick and reduce stress. You feel light and your mind becomes available for other tasks.
Remember, it is the good old 80/20 rule. Only 20% of the thoughts are worth paying attention to and the other 80% must be quickly rejected. Once we get rid of the 80%, we have more of our selves available for the real 20% that make a difference in our lives. Thus we accomplish in our life what we really need, keep our mind cleanse of clutter and reduce stress.
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I think every bad thought and every drug, can be used to approach us to what we really are, maybe it depends only by the way you take that thought or substance, if you are aware of it, and the changes it makes to you, you could realize somethings that you probably don’t know and don’t want for you, but things that you maybe are in the present. And then if you want it you can change it.
Merry christmas and a happy new year full of love, passion, light, awareness and peace.
You said the key point, “if you are aware”. Intellectual Awareness and having the courage to act & make changes per your awareness in your life can help you avoid mental “gingivitis.” I wish you Merry Christmas and the very best of health & prosperous New Year!
What a hell? In other time (maybe the date) I would say the same things and your name its pretty much mine (im Raul Fernando Lopez Blanquet) Maybe now I say that the consciousness to do what you said its difficult, if you only use your mind, and not your real consciousness.
How weird rare was finding you? What do you do for living? Im curious.
Received my blessings
Raul, while sometimes it is difficult to listen to your consciousness because temptation of the mind are easy to listen to. However, in the long run when you listen and act as per your consciousness, you achieve lasting peace. May the courage and peace be with you!