mind your mind

There was a man who happened to be an alcoholic. He had two sons. The family of that alcoholic man suffered heavily due to the drinking habit of that man. After a few days seeing his father, One of the sons was addicted to alcohol. The other son hated the drinking habit. He established an organization which helped in alcohol  deaddiction.   These two brothers in spite of similar environmental conditions nourished two different thoughts which took them in two different directions. It means before encouraging, nourishing and executing any thought it needs proper discrimination keeping in view of its final outcome. In farming farmers selectively cultivate that plant which finally produces food or give cash after selling them. Let’s call it a “valued plant”. Any other plant which doesn’t fulfill the above criteria when it tends to grow in the farm can be considered as a “weed plant”. The main problem with the “weed plant” is that it destroys the “Valued pla...

Do we think ?   or Does our thinking happen ? •        We chew the food and also we digest the food. There is lot of difference in our ability to control both the processes. •          We can make the chewing happen but digestion happens without our conscious involvement and control. •        We cannot say we digested the food. We can only say that the food got digested. In the same way we cannot make our heart beat, we cannot make our blood circulate, we cannot move our intestine. •        Now the question comes . Do we think or Does the thinking happen?     Compulsive thinking :   Thought and insanity •        Most of my stressed out patients when I ask them “why do you think so much?” reply “ I don’t want to think, thoughts just come to my mind”. They say this as if the thinking is a complete ...