Brain Drain? - Think it Through

Anyone who has tried meditation will know how difficult it is to still the thoughts which enter our minds all the time, unbidden & often unwelcome. We talk about "overthinking" things. We "dwell" on things. We are "lost in thought".

To an extent we are the prisoners of our thoughts & don't realise that our thoughts are just that, our own creation & not necessarily true or valid. The saying "the mind has a mind of it's own" reflects that, although we think we are rational & in control, we really aren't. Just try & think of nothing - you can't do it. If you are emotionally upset by something or someone, try stopping those thoughts. It's like sticking a finger in a dam that is coming apart.

So if we can't rely even on our own thoughts what can we rely on? Each one of us has been conditioned from birth by our parents, our friends & relatives & our teachers. Each one of those people was also conditioned in a similar way. So what we each individually think of as true & right thinking is dependent on the variables of all those different influences.

Maybe that is why world religions have taken hold universally over milennia. Maybe at some deep level wo/man realised that there needed to be a script that we could try to adhere to. Universal truths about how we should attempt to act throughout our lives.

What we have to do is try very hard not to listen to the scripts of the evil doers among us. I do believe there is evil. I do believe there are people who have lost their way completely. They are capable of all the sins against humanity & the world we live in.

Mans inhumanity to man seems to know no bounds at the moment in every country. It would be easy to "think" that these people are in the ascendant & can't be stopped. That is only true if we, the people, let them. We really need to listen carefully for the truth as opposed to misinformation & propaganda. Then we need to consider carefully what action to take & take it in a measured & proportional way.

Newton's Third Law - "For every action there is an equal & opposite reaction" - We should understand that in regard to our own behaviour & that of others & also realise that there is always a choice & always a middle way.

We each, individually, need to be brave & start really using the wonderful instrument we have been given - The Brain.