An Optimist

I am an ultimate optimist, From where i see, glass is always half full.

[loveulife]

Confrontation and Barrier and Anxiety

Has it ever happened to anyone to have difficulty to face reality or should I say difficulty to confront a situation that we don't want to deal with. I kept thinking about it. I don’t know why it is so difficult for us to face something or some situation knowing nothing bad might happen or at least nothing will happen that we can’t handle. Still we feel there is a barrier in our mind. Feels like something chains up our mind and not letting it move further. 

So I did some deep introspection into my life. I think it goes back to some bad incidents or memories that might scare us and we feel that will happen again. And we don’t know how to handle the situation. Even if we speak about it, nobody will understand. So our mind creates a barrier or fear so that we don’t have to feel the way we have felt before. 

Judged!  Misunderstood!  Isolated! 

Here is the thing. We can’t change the situation and we don’t want to confront that either.

That building up tension and stress is now turning into anxiety and panic. Whenever you see the situation coming towards you, the anxiety shoots up.

Then what to do? How to resolve it? 

FACE THE FEAR

Yup! There is no other option. 

Every coin has two sides. But our fear of being misunderstood cannot let us see that. It is our assumption, our thoughts that make those barriers. But we don’t know how much of it’s true, maybe it’s a minor thing, maybe what we are fearing is not there anymore, maybe the situation has changed. But we don’t know that. Because we are confined in a room. The only thing that is hurting is us. So BREAK the WALL. FACE THE FEAR, and decide whether it is worth staying in a barrier or not.

How would we know if we don’t face it. 

So BRACE YOURSELF and start a new journey.

[loveulife]

[loveulife]

Complicated

Both want to talk but nobody could. Both want to sort things out but nobody could. There is a wall between two minds. There is this huge gap or ego or i don’t know what that is between them. Is it ever possible to go beyond that and see what could happen!

[loveulife]

The Adventure into Brain

So they say the human mind is the most complex machine. It is indeed very difficult to think how quirky a way it works, thinks, sees the world, feels things. I feel that the mind itself is an entity of its own. It is the mind that makes all the noise. So is it the brain or the mind we listen to or is it the brain or is it the mind that drives our lives? Or are both the same? Is there any difference between mind or brain?

Few days back, I read an interesting article on that. And found out it is said that the mind and brain are two different things. That’s what i thought too! The mind has attributes like thought, feeling, attitude, belief and imagination and the brain is the mechanical part consisting of nerves, neurons which helps to have those attributes. The mind is not confined in the brain. But can the brain influence the mind? Or is it the mind that influences our brain.

I read that both are interchangeable. Both can influence each other. Brain can influence how we feel. Heard of happy hormones?  The brain releases the happy hormones, sad hormones, love hormones and so on. Not so romantic anymore.. Huh !! Different hormones are responsible for different emotions. Behind all the distress, humiliation, sadness, shame, fear, anger, disgust, happiness, interest, surprise, love we feel, there is a chemical release. 

So the brain is telling us how to feel and what to feel. Even what to think.. The way we think is controlled by the brain. It is the way these neurons talk. Hmmmmm… So how we think will lead to the chemical release of the brain and these chemicals will tell us how we feel. Now I am thinking if it is possible to remove or reduce the sadness or the negative feelings by changing our thought process. If we can control our brain and our thinking, we can control the release of the chemicals and our emotions as well.  Phew.....got myself a lot to think about....

Right now, my neurons are asking for a coffee break...

The adventure into the brain continues …..

[loveulife]

Nightmares

Sometimes I wonder why it is so difficult to let go of the past. Why can’t we let it go and see what future holds! May be it’s time to let life run its own course.