Understanding what our "ego" is and how it works will increase our happiness and deepen our understanding of our suffering. When hearing someone talk about "the ego" we might think it is something related to inflated sense of self or arrogance. However, ego is more closely tied to our self-perception, our mind and our natural defense systems. Perception is the ability to see, hear, or become … [Read more...]
Understanding FEAR
Fear, certainly should be near the top of the list for "should have had a class on this topic as a child". Fear is one of the strongest emotions we experience in life and is the underlying driver of many of our decisions and behaviors. All of this impact and yet we invest very little time into understanding how fear really works and how we can handle it better. Fear's overall purpose is … [Read more...]
The Tricks Our Mind Uses Against Us
In this article we are going to explain the tricks that our minds use against us and why. This is Part 3 of the "Understanding Our Mind" series. We learned in Part 1 - how the mind works and what consciousness is. In Part 2 - we dug into the different parts of the mind, mental nourishment and the issues with the monkey mind. Why Does Our Mind Fight and Resist Us? The untrained mind will … [Read more...]
How to Stop Feeding Your Monkey Mind
In part 2 of the "Understanding the Mind" series, we are going to go much deeper down the rabbit hole and learn: The mind's connection to others (the collective)What the "Monkey Mind" is and why it happensWays to calm the storms of our mind In part 1 we learned the basics of how our minds work, what our awareness is and the basics of mental seeds and mental nourishment. Parts of the … [Read more...]
Why We Resist, Delay and Avoid
We spend most of our lives fighting against the natural flow of things. Something in our nature simply does not want to surrender our control. We often find ourselves opposing things without even realizing why. When we begin to understand why we resist, we can transform this tendency and improve our acceptance and happiness. It All Comes Back to Fear Whether we are resisting, delaying or … [Read more...]
Victim of Wrong Perceptions
Much of the suffering in our life comes from our wrong perceptions. Our strong views and beliefs have made us blind to the things happening around us. Everything we see, hear or experience comes from a specific viewpoint that is biased from our past, our beliefs and our thinking processes. Most of the Time Our Perceptions Are Wrong Unfortunately we are victims of our own wrong perceptions. … [Read more...]