The Mind's Tendency Toward Conflict

1 year ago By Yogi Anoop

The Mind's Tendency Toward Conflict ; Understanding Self-Awareness, Contentment, and Pranayama.

The mind has a habit of fighting. We fight with the traps that we ourselves have created in our minds, 24/7. Until the end of our lives, we cannot understand that all these webs were created by ourselves. While thinking this, we spend our lives thinking that the mind is making us do all this. This is also true that if you put your senses and other organs into a habit, after a few days, months, or years, those habits start forcing us to do certain things. For example, if the tongue is given some addictive food for a few days, it will not accept anything else besides that food. Knowing that continuous consumption of that food is harmful, the tongue still forces us to take it. Although here too, the mind has developed a habit of fighting, and it thinks every day that it will leave this food, but it cannot. The fight inside is still ongoing.

Just as a person suffering from insomnia fights all night to bring sleep, even though they will not practice what brings sleep. They keep tossing and turning, and their mind keeps getting agitated, instead of bringing sleep.

The best way to bring sleep is to work hard all night to bring it. But we have developed a habit of fighting unnecessarily. If we want to fight, we should direct our attention towards finding a solution, but the truth is that fighting only means unnecessary struggle. It means destroying oneself without any reason.

We spend our whole day with two personas - one is ourselves, and the other is our inner enemy. We keep fighting and arguing with ourselves, and this creates a lot of exhaustion. The mind has to bear the burden of all the work the most. Perhaps, that's why the mind gets so confused and tired that it cannot even perform the solution-oriented tasks.

The day the mind understands this truth that it has created more than one character in its own mind and is fighting with them, it may stop fighting. It is essential to understand this secret truth, and then maybe the mind will stop fighting with itself.

There are some important points to consider here-

• Self-awareness is essential towards one's own mind. Just as the body requires exercise, so does the mind and senses. One should experience any task deeply, as in this state, the wings of the mind, which fly too fast, are cut off. Experiencing deeply is a means to calm the wings of the mind; otherwise, the mind does not allow life to provide earthly experiences. It flies because it is not experiencing itself. 

  
  

• Meditation should definitely be practiced because it is a practice that awakens a certain corner of life for which the mind remains restless throughout life, and that is self-contentment.

  
  

• If self-contentment is not achieved, then it will crave for satisfaction from those elements until it is satisfied. Its mind will continue to fly until it attains contentment. For contentment, the mind must become empty; until then, it cannot achieve contentment. Therefore, I encourage everyone to focus on meditation.

  
  

• Pranayama is also essential since the mind, while being active, causes the brain to become exhausted. It becomes so exhausted that it starts to make the body sick. So, practice Pranayama to give energy back to the brain and for it to be directed towards the self. Without energy, the mind cannot be directed towards the self, and without the mind being directed towards the self, it cannot experience itself.

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