Mind filters Reality
We are all familiar with the phrase, 'Seeing is believing.' We have complete faith in all the information that we receive through our senses.
We don't know that what our senses perceive is not what gets finally recorded in our mind!
How does the mind perceive the world? Just try to understand the process.
MIND FILTERS REALITY DOORWAYS TO SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS Working with thoughts and emotions
Not only does the mind distort perception, it also filters whatever we perceive. Can you imagine, only about ten percent of what we perceive through our senses gets recorded in our conscious mind!
Everything else goes directly into our unconscious mind.
Just see in your own life. Do you remember all the buildings, all the trees, all the signboards you pass on your way to work every morning? No!
But do you know, if you were put under hypnosis and asked the same question, you would recall each and every detail of your morning drive!
The only thing is, all this information is not stored in our conscious mind. So long as this sensory perception does not interest us in some way, it does not get recorded in the conscious mind. Just think of the traffic jam in our minds if we were consciously recording each and every sensory perception!
What happens to those sensory perceptions that do get recorded in our conscious mind?
These impressions are sorted out by parts of our mind and identified. In the whole process of thinking, your conscious mind has a very small role! Suppose a person is standing before you. Your conscious mind identifies this person – it records whether he is known to you or not. That's all! After this, the 'file' moves to your unconscious zone. In case you know the person, your attitude towards him and your actions are based on the samskaras (engrams) that you have already stored in your mind about him. Even if he is unknown to you, his appearance of that person may trigger some unconscious response in you.
Be very clear: it is your unconscious mind which makes the final decision about how you respond to a situation.
And the unfortunate thing is, we are not even conscious that we are unconscious! We think that we are making a very clear decision based upon our conscious understanding of the person. Actually, less than one percent of our decisions have a rational basis.
Understand, the more you cherish a certain kind of thought, the greater the chance that you will become aware only when such thoughts arise in your mind. The projector light which is inside you comes on, the awareness that you exist comes to life, only when those thoughts cross your field of awareness.
For example, if you enjoy lustful thoughts, it is only when lustful thoughts move across your mind that you become aware, 'I exist'. If you are unconsciously cherishing violence, it is only when violent thoughts arise that you come to life!
I*f you empower a particular thought again and again, that thought becomes the stimulus for you to become aware of yourself.*
Naturally, your inner space responds to and strengthens only those kinds of thoughts.
This becomes a vicious circle.
The greater the load of samskaras in your system, the greater the possibility that your actions and responses will be arising from your unconscious mind.
Meditation cleanses your inner space of the deep-rooted samskaras which decide your conditioned responses. In the superconscious meditative state, it is possible to relive and relieve your embedded memories, and removal and dissolution of these samskaras that bind us.
MIND FILTERS REALITY DOORWAYS TO SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS Working with thoughts and emotions
A recent scientific study conducted by a leading spiritual organization in the USA has revealed that if a boxing tournament happens in a city, the crime rate in that city goes up. On the other hand, if a large-scale group meditation session happens in the city, the crime rate comes down.
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