Science of Breadth
Have you noticed how you breathe when you are angry, or excited, or sad or very relaxed? As you are reading, just observe how you are breathing? There is certain rhythm to our breath. And if one cannot handle mind directly, one can do that through the breath.
The way you breathe when you are angry - fast and short.
A sigh comes up when sad or depressed.
When you are fearful or anxious - there is a flatter in the breath.
When you are relaxed and calm - the breath also becomes harmonious.
Nature has already given us this release system. The proper use of breath can open up such an amazing control on our mind and emotions.
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Seven Levels of existence
A little more on the Mind
Mind exists on more, and it needs a direction to flow. What that direction of wanting more is the deciding factor of one’s future.
Q: Mind – in want of new!
What is the nature of the mind?
The mind needs something new constantly, every minute, every second… It wants something today, something else tomorrow or an entirely different thing the day after tomorrow. You get bored if you have to eat the same vegetable everyday. You want to taste different varieties of food everyday. Why? Mind wants something new all the time. But how much newness can exist? Is there any stop to this more of the mind?
Q: Mind – in want of new!
What is the nature of the mind?
The mind needs something new constantly, every minute, every second… It wants something today, something else tomorrow or an entirely different thing the day after tomorrow. You get bored if you have to eat the same vegetable everyday. You want to taste different varieties of food everyday. Why? Mind wants something new all the time. But how much newness can exist? Is there any stop to this more of the mind?
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Seven Levels of existence
Continued from the series - Seven Levels of existence
Q: I was wondering what exactly the mind is? Is it a little space in our brain or is it universal?
Answer: Mind is energy which is all over the body. See, every cell in your body is emitting some energy and the totality of all that energy around you is what you call the mind. What happens in mind reflects in the body, what you put in the body, reflects in the mind. Mind is not present at some point in the brain, but mind is all over the body. There is so much deep knowledge about consciousness; The more you understand, the more wonder-struck you are. Wow!
Do you know about phantom hand? People who have lost their hand or leg in a war or accident, later sometimes, they feel they have a phantom hand or a leg. They feel sensations like itching or paining in that hand. That explains or gives a clue that the mind is not just in one spot, it is all around the body. The aura of body is mind. We think that mind is inside the body, it is the other way around - Body is inside the mind.
On a more gross level, Mind has got two dimensions. One is open mind and one is closed mind. An open mind is receptive, ready to learn, ready to catch the moment. A closed mind says, “I know it all”. Mind that has confined itself under the boundary of ‘I know it all’ doesn’t let one’s personality to blossom fully. In one of the traditions in East, the name given to a religion is Sikh. Sikh means one who is always ready to learn, and the knowledge of the self is so vast that there cannot be end to learning.
Answer: Mind is energy which is all over the body. See, every cell in your body is emitting some energy and the totality of all that energy around you is what you call the mind. What happens in mind reflects in the body, what you put in the body, reflects in the mind. Mind is not present at some point in the brain, but mind is all over the body. There is so much deep knowledge about consciousness; The more you understand, the more wonder-struck you are. Wow!
Do you know about phantom hand? People who have lost their hand or leg in a war or accident, later sometimes, they feel they have a phantom hand or a leg. They feel sensations like itching or paining in that hand. That explains or gives a clue that the mind is not just in one spot, it is all around the body. The aura of body is mind. We think that mind is inside the body, it is the other way around - Body is inside the mind.
On a more gross level, Mind has got two dimensions. One is open mind and one is closed mind. An open mind is receptive, ready to learn, ready to catch the moment. A closed mind says, “I know it all”. Mind that has confined itself under the boundary of ‘I know it all’ doesn’t let one’s personality to blossom fully. In one of the traditions in East, the name given to a religion is Sikh. Sikh means one who is always ready to learn, and the knowledge of the self is so vast that there cannot be end to learning.
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Seven Levels of existence
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