Conscious mental activity that we do include planning, working, calculating, computing, watching something (videos) listening to something (such as podcasts), reading, studying, focusing, concentrating, paying attention, etc. When we don’t do any of these activities we assume that we are free. But this is not true.
Our mind is never free. We are stuck with a habit of remaining engaged with mental activity all the time. These include the monologues in our mind with ourselves, the dialogues we carry out mentally with an imaginary person, the voices of others in our mind telling us what not to do, memories of past events, worries about the future, fantasising, imagining, dreaming, etc. We are habituated to this and so it seems to be happening effortlessly and automatically, although we are doing it. We don’t know how to stop it.
In my opinion this habit of constantly living in our minds is the primary cause for all suffering and pain afflicting the entire humanity. The following article and the other linked article within it will elaborate my point in more detail.
Selvan Srinivasan · 1y
My health is always in a bad condition. For that, I always depend on medicines. Will I be able to live without medicines?
I can authoritatively confirm that regular practice of energy movements and meditation results in complete freedom from suffering and pain. Even infections including very contagious ones like covid has no effect on someone who is able to cultivate a lifelong habit of this practice. All chronic diseases are actually an outcome of modern urban lifestyle that keeps our mind continuously and restlessly engaged. Disease happens when the mind remains exhausted for a long time. I have done extensive research and have written a book on this, which is under publication right now. People have no way to find out when the mind gets tired. With our physical body we know when it is tired and we pause physical activity and rest by sitting or lying or napping or sleeping or having a hot bath or massage. But with our mind, there is no metric to gauge its level of tiredness because mental tiredness shows up as restlessness, sadness, depression, anxiety, worry, indecisiveness, stress, or some such things and we end up treating it with more mental activity such as watching a movie or some other form of entertainment or distractions which always involves more mental activity and never rest. Meditation is the only way to rest the mind. Our physical body is the pinnacle of evolution and it has an inbuilt ability to completely heal itself. But it works only when our mind steps out of the way and allows the body to do it’s normal healing function. Our body keeps producing new cells to replace old cells all the time and in this way our entire body cells get replaced every two years. At any point of time our entire physical body is no older than two years. Our body is created with a self healing mechanism to keep us free from suffering and pain. But we see almost the entire humanity today suffering in one way or other. This is because of the non-stop mental activity that keeps our mind engaged all the time. These include the monologues in our mind with ourselves, the dialogues we carry out mentally with an imaginary person, the voices of others in our mind telling us what not to do, memories of past events, worries about the future, planning, working, calculating, computing, watching something (videos) listening to something (such as podcasts), reading, fantasising, imagining, dreaming, etc. We are habituated to this and so it seems to be happening effortlessly and automatically, although we are doing it. We don’t know how to stop it. Here is my suggested solution for you. To begin with please see if you can do the simple practice suggested in the following article for two weeks. And see if it helps give you some relief at least. If this makes you interested in going deeper and experiencing complete freedom from suffering and pain just as I did, please read the following and reach out to enrol into my online mentoring program called Awareness Journey.
For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.https://awarenessjourney.org/