Master Mind
This 1.36 kg organ, which is 2% of our body weight, sits in the front row seat of intelligence, interpreter of the senses, initiator of body movement, and controller of behavior. Lying in its bony shell and washed by protective fluid, the brain is the source of all the qualities that define our humanity.
We don’t need to waste our lifetime right now doing unnecessary things. It will not bring you forward. Why not? Because if you don’t come back, you will face the same issues again that you did not solve in this lifetime.
The first arrow hits, the first arrow means that it could be multiple things such as work, home, or insults from another person. My arrow is from other people. If somebody is insulting you it’s going to hurt. You are going to feel like it has just hit your ego. You will feel the pain. You will feel the insult deep in your body and mind. Your mind will play tricks on you, you will feel boneless, sad, and disappointed. Watch out! Now make sure the second arrow doesn’t hit. The second arrow often is that you are now shooting at yourself. After the first one that hit you, you are crying about being hit with that arrow. That means if I feel the pain, I try to avoid that pain, or I suffer from this pain. With this, I am learning to direct my mind and try to avoid the second arrow. Me.
What I realize to observe is what is this sensation? What is it that we humans call pain? My quiet ways and my thoughts of the second arrow I pulled. Could this be the pain, the second arrow or is it the pain from the first? Not only do I beat myself up for allowing the pain from other insults to take over my mind. I am avoiding the second arrow at the same time.
It is overwhelming and stressful.
The pain. Is it sharp? Does it feel like a bruise, headache, or a cut? Where exactly is it? This is the starting point for me to recognize how I treat myself. I also wonder where it is regulated from. Sure originally the other person. Then from me dwelling on the hurt with the first arrow stuck. Yes, we all go off the handle from now and then though lately, I sit in silence. Wondering. Regulating.
Not avoidance you ask? No.
It’s mastering your mind.
By observing myself I can detect, I can feel that there is a collection around that area, try to collect and contestable in the mind and then you learn to release. Feel the pain. Release the pain. When things start to tense up, I am learning to use my mind to do the opposite, what started to cut into my ego I now try to regulate the opposite and push it out. It is this interplay that I learn to breathe it out and release it. Noticing this of late that the deeper I let go the more relaxed I am. Even though my outer shell might have armor, I walk around pretending I am ok, and this can be mistaken for others to think I am angry. I am not. I am quiet. I am regulating. I am finding peace in my mind. As I do this my level of ability is clearer.
You learn not to let them attack you or move your ego. Never let someone else take away your quality of life by insulting you.
Yes, it can be a roadblock, the process, of allowing yourself to get used to it, allowing myself to go over a certain limitation. When I do, overcoming it helps my mind be at ease. Repeating it helps my ability to become free of judgment from others, the insults are no longer an insult. They don’t move me. If you do not take charge of your self internal cultivation there is too much out there that can feel like an insult but none of that is worth you wasting your lifetime for it and feeling bad about it.
