“We are what we think. Everything we are arises from our thoughts. Our thoughts build the world,” taught Buddha.
This means that what we see in the world around us is nothing more than a reflection of what we are. Everything we are is a reflection of what we have thought. The mind is everything. We become what we think.
We become what we think.
Quantum physics shows that thoughts are vibrations of a certain frequency that attract events and episodes of the same frequency. Thought is a powerful energy that materializes, an energy that creates our reality. Of course, it is not me who says so, but neuroscience.
Every time we think something, our unconscious will do everything it can to make what you think seem real… Imagining anything means making your unconscious live it and even if we have not really experienced it, for that part of the brain it is as if we had really lived it. The more vivid the image is in our mind, the more powerful the effect it manifests.
Our reality is a mirror of who we are
A depressed person will get many things out of life to make their situation worse, simply because their mind will read these manifestations in their language of the moment. A fan of a soccer team will see penalties in favor of his team even where there are none, but will tend not to see penalties in his own area.
“It’s raining cats and dogs” really means that when you take a direction, everything confirms it.
“Whether you think you can do it or not, you’ll still be right,” said Henry Ford.
This is more important than the mystery of Fatima, our mind is the creator of our reality, or at least co-creator, it conditions it decisively.
Feuerbach’s famous phrase: “we are what we eat” is linked to the physical dimension, to the body, but now it has been scientifically proven that human beings do not live in only one dimension, but in three anthropological levels:
- The physical-biological dimension;
- The psychic-mental dimension;
- The conscious-spiritual dimension.
Intelligence and our character are part of the psychic dimension, we cannot see them, but we are sure of their existence.
Connecting consciousness
The mind also has the task of connecting consciousness with matter. Consciousness allows us to connect and perceive reality, to recognize ourselves: “who am I? am I only this body? am I this role? or am I something else?
Consciousness has four stages: awareness, sleep, deep sleep and the spiritual stage, the latter being very difficult to reach and reserved for very few people.
Only in deep sleep does the mind enter into rest, refreshed, while the body, already in the stage of light sleep, rests.
In addition to food for the body, as human beings we also need to feed the mind, and we do it unconsciously through our emotions.
So we have to be very careful with the emotions that feed us, because as in traditional food there are some that are toxic, some that are poisonous, some that are bitter, some that are not good.
While the body that ingests a non-lethal poison is usually able to recognize it and expel it, the mind, unfortunately, cannot.
Emotions change the body’s patterns, which are: “relational, postural, behavioral, motor“, so the mind has the power to condition the body, and when intoxicated the body suffers the consequences, through psychopathogenesis.
After all, one of the greatest teachings is given to us by the famous phrase “Mens sana in corpore sano” (a healthy mind in a healthy body), demonstrating also that, even without the scientific evidence provided by modernity, the answers to the most important questions of life already exist within us.
There is no well-being, health, happiness without a filter of our emotions, we have the absolute necessity to carefully select the guests of our mind.
As human beings we also need to feed the mind, and we do it unconsciously through our emotions.
What this journey into our mind, between our dimensions, teaches us is that only through a healthy awareness of our own needs and ideals, we can aspire to a positive reunion between our different dimensions in the present, body, mind, spirit, and then nothing prevents us, we can become everything we want to be, we can not let ourselves be conditioned by the past or the environment, to build us an ideal future, worthy of our immense capabilities.
The American Indians have a proverb that goes like this:
“Be careful with your thoughts because they become words, be careful with your words because they become habits; be careful with your habits because they become character, be careful with your character because it becomes your destiny.”
