I realise that my mind is a trickster or rather that I have to be a trickster to my mind.
That way, I can increase control and rein it in for my benefit.
The only way is to fill my mind with ways to improve.
Yet, the mind is susceptible to suggestions, especially when unprepared.
Got to trick the mind to get the body to move.
The mind as I age, becomes weaker chemically and mentally.
Having it exposed to all kinds of information, experiences.
Having it subjected to self-abuse by external factors when the abuse(r) has all but forgotten.
Fact is, I beat myself up too much when the other party doesn’t care much at all.
There’s this guy called Dr. Amen, which I read somewhere which said that it’s recommended not to place a label on the good and bad (on specific events) that happened, as the mind will then put weight to either the good or bad events.
That weight will cause someone to go out of balance, choosing either the bad or good and causing a mental imbalance due to what it prioritise as in terms of information of what it chooses to belief that is good or bad.
I interpreted that as having mental neutrality. The ability to be able to stay neutral on both the good and the bad keeps the mind in a balanced state to be able to process better and allow a person to decide and choose how they want to react vs reacting immediately on that information received at that point.
How to take information in is in itself a kind of discipline that requires an on-going detoxing process. We really don’t need to take in more rubbish in the brain.
At the end of the day, it’s apparent that self-care for the mind, self-love for this brain is critical in order to fully function as a person especially in a day-to-day basis.
What’s the point of holding that pain, letting it go would be a lot more better.
Move forward and always be improving the health of the mind.
When I was younger, the state of my mind doesn’t seem all that important,
When I’m now older, the state of the mind becomes pretty apparent and ever more so important.
I’m mindful of the mind and mindful that what matters now are just illusions and will eventually be the past that doesn’t dictate my future.
So I strive to not let my mind be abused by daily ruses.