We are primarily a reflection of our thoughts, emotions and responses. You’d call such mirrored impressions as our own biofeedback loop — something we understand, albeit we need a prompt to derive and utilise its essence. One reason why biofeedback techniques use our own fears to perceive and streamline our emotions as a resource — because most of us view our feelings, including anxieties, through petrified eyes. This is also what triggers a host of mind-body illnesses in the first place, because we allow others to ‘label’ us as having ‘some’ illness, impulse, behaviour, or response. The best, or worst, part is we believe them — though they are not physicians, or therapists. We will do well if only we empower ourselves without getting destabilised by unapprised ‘diagnoses’ of our inner physical and functional wellness.
It is all in the mind too. When our mind is relaxed, rational and quiet, it reaches a boundless stillness. This takes us to a state we may never have imagined existed, almost on auto-pilot, provided we are mindful of ourselves and our everyday tasks. This is a condition that expands only with consistency and application — whatever the chore, big or small. Our ancient philosophers related to such a ‘regular’ happening state as timelessness, or happiness personified. It goes without saying that the condition also relates to present-moment reality — something that is transpersonal and clear of personal identities. It is a form that consistently exists for us.
All we need to do is transform the equation, while using our emotional intensities to process our thoughts as we experience them. Once this occurs, we are less prone to experience certain anxieties that come about when unanswered questions, or apprehensions, are activated by topical events — more so, hearsay of certain observers who ‘don’ the role of medical experts without being one. It makes sense too to depend or access our intellect and hard logical data in the process of problem solving — be it our health, or finances. You’d achieve this in one fell swoop, or over a period of time, just like successful business people who wrested the initiative with appropriate decisions ‘engineered’ on the spur of the moment, along with a flair for ‘gut feeling.’ This was what that turned the tables and made them achievers, or icons. The inference, of course, is obvious. Not all of us, by the rule of the thumb, use common sense, not to speak of gut feelings, as a rote — at the drop of an idea, or thought. Well, if only we did, things would be different. It all works when we are focused, conscious and responsive to our feelings — or, evaluate their impact on our behaviour and others’ behaviour as captains achieve in the biff-bang milieu of T20 cricket, where just one good, or bad, over can swing the tables. From the depths of despair to what is fêted as a humdinger, or startling triumph.
In our age of high-tech advance, most people tend to think of themselves as mechanical hardware, with one’s reflexes being akin to the silicon chip. It is high time we thought of our mind and body as one; a grand intelligence that nature has endowed us all with, whatever our level of intelligence, or status. This apparently holds the key to our life as a state of being, not merely a spectacle. This is a plateau where the soul expands permanently into consciousness too — although the fact, any which way you look at it, is our mind relates to its own expansive prism of mysticism and elevates its own depths of spiritual intensity for a higher purpose.
