Mind your mind !!

How do we perceive the world ?
We know there are things in this world. Because we see, hear , touch , smell or taste them.

Which of these is most important?

Sight:
We see something when light bounces of it and enters our eyes and the signals reach our brain.
Light requires no medium. It work anywhere, even in space.

Hearing:
We hear something when the sound waves it produces reaches our ears and the signals reach our brain.
Sound requires a medium. So we use this to a lesser extent than seeing.

Touch, Taste, Smell : are all related to the skin. The skin of the hands and other parts of the body produce the sensation of touch. The skin of the tongue react with chemicals of a substance to produce taste. And the skin of the nose does the same to produce the smell signals.

What is happening in common here ?

External objects produce electrical signals in our brain.
Let's (For now) call the brain the mind, it's functional unit.

But what's going wrong then ....?

The mind filters the signals into good, bad ,neutral , maybe good, maybe bad etc.
It does so by checking it against a database in itself.
The mind builds this database itself by recording stuff as good and bad and passing it on to the next generation.
And this has been going on for millions of years.
The database has been growing. For the most part it works just right to make the body/mind complex survive.
BUT ..... a certain degree of corruption has grown into this database.
Our minds often trigger unwanted responses to external stimuli.
And it breaks down, becoms dysfunctional .

What is the remedy ?!

SO ....how do we avoid this?
The best way is to just keep in mind what's going on.
Just alert yourself to be aware that your mind is filtering information against a possibly corrupt database.
If you are upto it modify wrong notions.
For example you can modify your fear of water by learning to swim.
Or your fear of flying by flying.
Once you are aware that the mind is only a tool, and that YOU are in charge, it should be easy!
So cheers friends ! Don't let your mind let you
down !!