It might sound same but deep down we all know that there is a significant difference between Brain and Mind. While science explores the intricacies of the brain, we uncover remarkable similarities with insights that yogis have understood for thousands of years. This blog post delves into the complex connection between the mind and the brain, utilizing insights that can steer us toward a more balanced and meaningful existence
Understand First About The Brain and Mind
First So now that we’ve got this largely settled, let’s get to the fundamental question: What is the mind? The brain is an organ — It’s the physical “grey matter” It is a real perceivable, visible, three-dimensional thing that can be seen and examined. “We can register, by delicate instruments, its minute oscillations, excitements and impulses. These impulses generated by the external stimulations that touch our senses are think in its very root. brain? The brain is the physical grey matter –an actual, tangible organ that can be seen and researched. With the help of delicate machines, we can register its tiny shifts and flutters, pains and thrills. These impulses produced outside are the original constituens of what we term ideas. However, the mind is the invisible force that fuels these physical reactions.
It is the “something” that between itself and the brain those pictures in the brain are taken. A thought is just a reaction in the brain, with no reality beyond your personal response to it. Combinatorial thoughts create the mind. While the brain is the machine, the mind is the operator. This discrepancy explains why a thinker’s mind can be orders of magnitude more sophisticated than that of a non-thinker, even though they have brains of similar size.
Thoughts, Emotions, and Character
The brain and the mind represents the same area of your body however it’s a whole different prospective, when you start to realize more in depth. I’ll provide an example so you have a better understanding. Think of the mind as cloth, a single thought a strand. What we feel paints this cloth, and that which we do over and over they fortify that cloth. Coarse or fine, it is the texture of this fabric that our thoughts create. Even we have also talk on the beginning of thought, Incase you are interested in reading more then check it out here. Where does our thoughts come from
The brain then serves as a tailor, molding this cloth into the garment of our character. Our likes and dislikes are what we can put on, take off, dispose of. Through these ideas thoughts and through our emotions we build up a superior character, molding the finer feelings of positivity into formidable substance. This is not just a metaphor; it’s advice for effective self-help. That we can change our internal states, and as a result revalue the external world and change who we are for the positive. The Tyranny of Empathy: Feeling, Sentiment, and the Proximate Other It is the unseen substance of the mind that very often gives rise to misunderstanding and dissension. We do not take everybody’s mental life but instead how we react to their presence as a proxy given that we are unable to see inside of another brain. They can range into three categories: By idea: (Inspired by the Zen Yoga
The Power of Connection: Affinity, Repulsion, and Indifference
It’s connection, friendship, love, and community. It is the foundation of joint action, globally down to masterminds and the United Nations. Repulsion: This is conflict in its nuclear form. It is expressed as anger, arrogance and cruelty, resulting in misunderstanding form and crimes to wars. Because it feeds our brain and when all of our grey matter hears is frustration, we act out destructively. Note: Idea is taken from the Zen Yoga
- Affinity: This leads to connection, forming friendships, love, and community. It is the basis for collaboration and unity, from masterminds to global organizations like the United Nations.
- Repulsion: This is the root of conflict. It manifests as anger, egoism, and cruelty, leading to misunderstandings, crime, and even war. When our grey matter registers frustrated reactions, it fuels destructive behaviors.
- Indifference: A state of neutrality that can be dangerous. A mind that feels neither affinity nor repulsion tends to live in isolation. Without the push and pull of social interaction, it can become morbid and lead to psychological distress. An indifferent mind, if not checked, can eventually become repellant to others, showing early signs of mental unhappiness.
Path to Self-Awareness: Breaking Free from Drifts
Escaping Drifts Somewhere along the way many of us are living life on auto-pilot, when we replay thought patterns that have been stored and added to since we were children. We are like tape recorders just responding to everything, devoid of any consciousness or objection.” These “drifts of the mind” pull us away from actually living our purpose. The yogi’s journey is a liberation from this vortex. It’s about letting go of reactivity and instead beginning to decide what we want to think and do. The real aim of life is not to drift, but to continuously asks oneself: “Am I moving closer to my purpose?” In the instance of our thought processes and waywardness, yoga and the mediation practice of it give us the tools to look at our thoughts patterns, inspect these drifts, discard old unhelpful habits while implementing new purposeful ones. The old wise men of ancient times, since they had developed a deep consciousness which transcended the senses, were able to observe and understand the mind. “In connecting body and mind, they transcended the obvious to know the invisible.” “THE ESSENCE OF YOGA” is made of the unseen, understanding the mind and living with intention and pea
