Really great insight into the mind and mental health, I find that there is a divide between the mind and the body and it was good to read it from your perspectives
Thanks Paul. I absolutely agree that we experience a divide between mind and body. I wonder how much of this divide is cultural/social/evolution. I know that it helps me if I can remind myself that I’m a whole and not parts. I appreciate your comment.
Emily, how do you know it's your brain the one that doesn't go well and not your mind? Although I read all the post, I found myself going back to that, and thinking, it doesn't seem to me that E's brain is unwell. But what do we really mean when we say mind, heart mind, heart? I never know for sure, and I use those words all the time. Brain is medical, as heart can be too. The problem with words is that their un-defined borders take a life of their own, and there are moments when all of them (discursive thinking) persuade you as your body's interpreter that what they are saying is "true".
A disease of the brain? a disease of the mind? of the heart? a disease of intrusive discursive thinking? Silence as in let me get out of the loop is what really helps me, and it's usually my body that propels me into it.
Thanks for this Claudia. Yes, I'm being rather free with my words here and not defining my terms as we say in English lit. circles. I am using brain and mind interchangeably - although I must say that I have felt in the past that it is my "brain" that is unwell. I see the components of my life that are healthy, which for me have more to do with mind and heart, and then see the architecture of my brain as (for lot's of reasons) built to favor anxiety and despair. This separation is really useful because it can help me to understand that my brain is just doing what it does, and I can learn to watch it do that without getting lost in it. There are times (like the last couple of weeks), however, when the separation gets blurred.
I appreciate you bringing up the uses we have for these words and their undefined borders as you say.
Thanks as always Dave for the encouragement! It is curious and kind of scary to start asking my body and listening for an answer when this has certainly not been a habit.
A very interesting post. At my age my body talks a lot and even yells at times. 😎 I have been trying to realize that integration of mind and body of which the sages speak. Trepidation is a mystery to me that I am trying to understand. Peace to you (and Fog).
Really great insight into the mind and mental health, I find that there is a divide between the mind and the body and it was good to read it from your perspectives
Thanks Paul. I absolutely agree that we experience a divide between mind and body. I wonder how much of this divide is cultural/social/evolution. I know that it helps me if I can remind myself that I’m a whole and not parts. I appreciate your comment.
Emily, how do you know it's your brain the one that doesn't go well and not your mind? Although I read all the post, I found myself going back to that, and thinking, it doesn't seem to me that E's brain is unwell. But what do we really mean when we say mind, heart mind, heart? I never know for sure, and I use those words all the time. Brain is medical, as heart can be too. The problem with words is that their un-defined borders take a life of their own, and there are moments when all of them (discursive thinking) persuade you as your body's interpreter that what they are saying is "true".
A disease of the brain? a disease of the mind? of the heart? a disease of intrusive discursive thinking? Silence as in let me get out of the loop is what really helps me, and it's usually my body that propels me into it.
Thanks for this Claudia. Yes, I'm being rather free with my words here and not defining my terms as we say in English lit. circles. I am using brain and mind interchangeably - although I must say that I have felt in the past that it is my "brain" that is unwell. I see the components of my life that are healthy, which for me have more to do with mind and heart, and then see the architecture of my brain as (for lot's of reasons) built to favor anxiety and despair. This separation is really useful because it can help me to understand that my brain is just doing what it does, and I can learn to watch it do that without getting lost in it. There are times (like the last couple of weeks), however, when the separation gets blurred.
I appreciate you bringing up the uses we have for these words and their undefined borders as you say.
Emily, I believe that you are right. Your body knows. D
Thanks as always Dave for the encouragement! It is curious and kind of scary to start asking my body and listening for an answer when this has certainly not been a habit.
Emily, My wife is very good at it. Me - not as practiced. D
Ha! Yes, I have a good friend who is very much a "body" person, a different kind of intelligence.
A very interesting post. At my age my body talks a lot and even yells at times. 😎 I have been trying to realize that integration of mind and body of which the sages speak. Trepidation is a mystery to me that I am trying to understand. Peace to you (and Fog).
Thanks so much Manuel. I’m smiling at the yelling part, yes! Also, there is so much in the idea of trepidation.
Here are the questions again:
Do you have a sense of listening to your body? How do your mind and your body interact? What’s their history?
How do you occupy relationships? Where do you find trepidation? Hope?