Mind: Perform an Inner Reset

The functioning of the human mind and nervous system is not adapted to stressful urban environments or the race for productivity. This mismatch generates psychic residue, confusion, and suffering. Much like a computer saturated by background processes, the mind needs to be reset.

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Summary: The functioning of the human mind and nervous system is not adapted to stressful urban environments or the race for productivity. This mismatch generates psychic residue, confusion, and suffering. Much like a computer saturated by background processes, the mind needs to be reset.

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Every computer user is familiar with the reboot, which refers to the reset. When you perform a reboot, it is because the computer is malfunctioning due to applications running in the background against your will.

It happens that your mental and your intellect accumulate all kinds of information, conscious or unconscious, coming from stimuli, from events (good or bad), from emotions, thoughts, speculations, or dreams. This information leaves traces that affect your daily life.

Sometimes, this manifests in the form of guilt, doubt, regret, attachment, or unquenchable desires. There is also a hidden memory where worry, sadness, anger, and fear reside. So many inexhaustible sources of « bugs » that crash your operating system: the mental.

You are like those computers that have overheated

There are so many scories and remnants of the activity of the mental and the senses in you that you are blocked, unable to tell the difference between the true and the false, between the objective and the subjective. From a tool, the mental becomes the master. Your fantasies become reality and you base your acts on an illusion. If you are in this case, you are the ideal candidate for a reboot.

This is what The reboot allows

Take breaks, calm down, do nothing. Sit still, without reading, without a screen. Meditate for a moment. Breathe calmly while closing your eyes. If the room you are in is silent, listen to the sound of your breathing. You inhale, it makes a sound, you exhale, it is another sound. Notice the difference between the two sounds. Do not pay attention to your thoughts. This moment of meditation allows you to reset. Fragmentation then gives way to unity.

Existence is a journey back to your original state. Just because the journey may seem long does not mean you should not enjoy the scenery. Existence is beautiful, even if it is not perfect or free from suffering. Rain after sun, sun after rain: that is just how it is.

Reasons to suffer

Reasons to suffer, there are always some, whether they are linked to your own life or to that of so many others across the world, victims of injustice. The reunion between your consciousness and inner peace does not prevent empathy.

To live well, you must live as what was intended for you. A saltwater fish will live better in salt water than in fresh water. An orangutan will live better at the top of a primary forest than in a cage. To each species its biotope. The human being was not designed to live in the environment they occupy today, at least in developed societies. This inadequacy is not caused by modernity, but by the materialistic motivation that does violence to their nature.

One evening, on television

A report showed, on television, the life of farmers in Ladakh cultivating barley. When the wind was strong, they threw the grain into the air to separate the grain from the ear. During this work, they sang the glory of the wind and laughed a lot.

Later, the report showed these same people using a tractor and a machine. Productivity had increased, they earned more money and time. Yet, a farmer confided:

« We earn more money, but what to buy? We gain time, but what to do with it? We no longer sing because of the engine noise, we no longer work together, we no longer laugh... I feel a mental tension that I did not know before. We had fewer goods, but we were happy. »

The competitive environment

Man lives today in an environment unsuited to his nature: a need for efficiency, performance, and the race for gains. Since childhood, our societies make us believe that the goal of man is to be productive.

Is the goal of man really to serve financial wealth by producing ever more? Certainly not. The proof is this mental tension that pushes so many toward depression. Modernity has nothing to do with it: one can be modern without being insane! You must earn enough to live, but that must not be the goal of your life.

The goal of your life is to live, in consciousness of the essential: life. This life is in you, go meet it by going, from time to time, regularly, within yourself, through meditation. If you need more info on this subject, visit the blog whose link is at the beginning of the text, write to the email address at the end.

This ideal you seek is in you. It is by resetting your operating system that you will find it.

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