We all had our days that we felt very good, strong and had no obvious thoughts in our mind but just made good decisions with luck on our side. On the other side we had those moments when we couldn't stop thinking about a previous event or mistake and we walked against objects or just had bad luck with all the things coming our way.
This simple thought experiment for which we can all visualize past events, shows us that our state of mind can be our biggest allie or foe. Our brain is working at all the time, even during sleep we have dreams, and also during he day, when we just look out of the window there is a lot of information wich is received, classified and sometimes transformed before we had any conscious idea. All this informaion is simply too much for our conscious, if our subconscious wouldnt make some shifing then we would literely drawn in an over abundance of information, just 5 min of television would be mind blowing if every litle detail would come in our conscious.
Our subcounscious is not a sepperate part of the brain, its the base for wich our conscious is a vital ad-on.
An artist will see a lot of beauty in a waterfall, where a scientist will see mathematical calculations coming to life and a bored person will see nothing at all. This brings us to a first interesing point, our subconscious is receiving and classifiing new information first, but our conscious mind decides what our unconscious mind will let go through, what we can receive. Our conscious thinking will create a mindframe in wich our unconscious mind is locked, it will be busy with much more but cannot show this. Ofcourse its also very helpfull te steer and give direction to the unconscious, without priorities there is no guidance for our subcounscious and the information will come ,in worst case, at random, they call it madness i think.
You receive what you think, and this will reinforce your thinking, this powerful self-reinforcing mechanism is the reason why we are being locked up in our own little world and have such difficulties for truly understanding the view of others. What we believe, our values create a mental frame in which new information will be projected and checked for regularities and irregularities, if the values are strict and rock solid then all the irregularities will be filtered when they are not life threatening and will never come in our conscious.
Our conscious thoughts determine in big lines which information our subconscious will pas on,but also our emotions play a big role, if you are thinking negative you will see more ugliness then when you think positive.
Our values create a mental frame which will filter all the incoming information and depending on our mood we will see the positives or negatives depending on our view of good and bad. That's why you cant change people's mind if they are having a fixed set of principles for a long time, they have already so much experiences in which their principles are affirmed that it becomes nearly impossible for arguments to have any counter weight. We see what we believe and we believe what we see, they reinforce themselves until a point of no return or something truly shocking has to happen to shake up the foundation of principles and values.
This brings us to the point where we have to conclude that we can only have an open mind when we live without fixed values and principles, which is true but at the same time this makes everything completely relative. We need to share basic values if we want to live together and we will need some for to give direction in our lives, but at the same time we need to have them as vague as possible and as few as possible, like freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and in general as much freedom as possible with almost no restrictions at all unless there where the freedom of the other person is in danger. By keeping your values vague you will have to question them from time to time and this questioning is the best guarantee for keeping an open mind.
By accepting the premise that its better to have freedom then restrictions and that this premise also counts for all other life around you, then you have a basic line which needs questioning with every big question, but in the same time preserves the integrity and dignity of everything around you, which should be the end goal of every religion, life style.
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