Awareness: Clear Thoughts, Beliefs, and Feelings (The Meaning of Enlightenment)

If you're confused, why rush to know the answer immediately? Confusion itself is a very valuable asset, to perceive it, to observe it, until it is asked a correct question, a question of "cause" and not a question of "effect".

A flower can't write poetry for itself, but you can.

Concepts are not static, and emotions and imaginations dictate their direction, reinforcing or denying them. You have to deliberately "play" your conscious mind with a playful attitude, like a child playing a game, in which for a while you ignore the so-called reality and pretend that what you really want is true.

If you're poor, you deliberately pretend that you have everything you need financially, and imagine how you're going to spend your money.

If you are sick, it is fun to imagine that you are not sick and light, see what you are doing, if you are not good at communicating with people, imagine that you can easily do that.

If you feel that the days are dark and meaningless, then imagine that you have a relaxed and enjoyable life.

This may sound very unrealistic, but in your daily life, you often put your imagination and emotions at the service of far less worthy beliefs, and the consequences are obvious: practical is unfortunate. If unsatisfactory beliefs take a while to manifest in your life, you may have to wait a while to see the actual results. But new concepts are bound to grow up like the old ones, changing your experience.

At the same time, this imaginary process will also bring you face to face with other accompanying concepts and hold them with the same strength. In such a situation, you are again generalizing your army.

You may believe that you have the right to health, but at the same intensity believe that the human condition is inherently polluted. So you want to be healthy and you don't want to be healthy at the same time, or you want to succeed and you don't want to succeed, depending entirely on your personal belief system: beliefs often fall into an interrelated conceptual system.

Your beliefs create emotions. It is now more or less popular to put emotions above conscious thoughts, meaning that emotions are more basic and natural than conscious reasoning.

These two points are actually inseparable from Meng Jiao. But your conscious thoughts generally determine your emotional feelings, not their opposite.

Your belief gives birth to the appropriate emotional sensations it implies. Long-term emotional depression does not surprise you for no reason. Your emotions do not betray you, on the contrary, you have been consciously embracing negative emotions for some time, and they make you feel strongly depressed and depressed.

If emotional sensations are more trustworthy than conscious thoughts, then why do you need to be "aware", you don't need clear thoughts at all.

In addition, you are not at the mercy of your emotional feelings, because they are supposed to follow your reasoning process, your train of thought. The original purpose of your mind is to clearly perceive the physical environment, and then its judgment of the environment activates the organs of your body and brings about an appropriate response.

If you have a fearful belief in the survival instinct, then you will have those emotional reactions that cause stress and stress. In this case, you need to examine your own value judgment.

Your imagination will of course stir up your emotions, but it also faithfully follows your beliefs. How you think, you will feel, not the opposite.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, you are constantly hypnotized by your own conscious thoughts and cues, and the word hypnosis refers to nothing more than a fairly normal state in which you concentrate your attention and narrow your focus to a particular range of thoughts or beliefs.

You spend a lot of effort concentrating on one thought, usually to the point where the mind is not distracted.

It's a rather conscious act, and it shows the importance of belief in itself, because under hypnosis you "force" yourself with a belief, or a belief given to you by a hypnotist, but you focus all your attention on it.

In your daily life, your emotions and behavior follow your beliefs, and if you believe you are sick, then in fact you are really sick. If you believe you are healthy, then you are healthy.

Beliefs themselves can produce negative emotions, and these negative emotions do lead to a physical or psychological disease. Then the imagination follows, drawing a terrible mental image of a particular situation. It doesn't take long for the data of the body to confirm the negative belief, which I call negative because it is much more harmful than a notion of good health.

A belief may be accompanied by many other beliefs, and each derives its own emotions and imaginary reality. For example, belief in illness itself depends on beliefs that people are worthless, "guilty," and "imperfect."

The mind is not only embraced with positive and active beliefs, it also contains many other beliefs in the state of inactivity. They lurk there, ready to be noticed and summoned by you, and any one of them may be brought before your eyes through your intentional insight.

For example, suppose you have always focused on poverty, sickness, or deprivation, and your conscious mind also harbors the concepts of health, vitality, and abundance. If you shift your train of thought from a negative concept to a positive one, then your focus will begin to change the status quo. Under the leadership of your conscious mind, the potential of the vast reservoir of energy hidden deep within you will be aroused to act. For you as creatures have the ability to reason, because you have such varied experiences to use. Humans develop the ability to reason, and this ability is inherently more and more evolved and grown the more it is used.

So the more you use your consciousness, the more it expands, and the more you use these abilities, the more conscious you become.

And when you do this, your consciousness turns back to itself. It really got bigger than it used to be.

Living in the possibilities of such a colorful and rich environment. The human mind needs and develops a "conscious mind" in order to make concise and clear judgments and assessments anytime, anywhere. Then when the conscious mind grows, so does the scope of the imagination.

In many ways, the conscious mind can be said to be a tool of the imagination, and the more knowledge the conscious mind has, the farther the imagination can reach. In return, imagination also enriches conscious reasoning and emotional experience.

You have not yet learned to use your conscious mind correctly or fully, so that imagination, emotion, and reasoning seem to be separate functions, and even enemies of each other.

The mature conscious mind receives information from both the outer world and the inner world. Only when you believe that consciousness must adjust only to external situations does you force itself to cut itself off from the inner knowledge, the intuitive "voice" and the depth from which it comes.