In the about me section I started everything off by mentioning my schooling and for me this is the core of everything. In our education we are not taught, what I believe, to be the fundamental basics required for a person to effectively live their lives and gain the most from their experiences in it. We are taught reading and writing and speech, equally important things. We are taught body mechanics. We are taught maths and sciences and all the derivatives of those. But never are we taught about emotions or the mind. It's almost as if these things are not worthy of our attention maybe because they make us feel stupid a lot. Some might say because we don't fully understand them but yet all of us, every single one of us have to deal with both every single moment of our lives.
Thoughts are filtered through the things we are taught, emotions are dealt with as they effect our local environment. If you can manage to contain your unhappiness for example then good but only when that unhappiness manifests itself and has impact on others or even our own physical selves are they addressed. Look I could ramble on about this at length trying to cover every possible scenario but it all still comes back to these simple questions for me. Questions that I have asked myself and others over and over again...
What are my mind and emotions for? What are their functions?
The answers I have received to these questions from others have varied but everyone I have ever asked these questions to seem at first to be a little confused by the question. Sometimes there are expressions of "well...duh...uh...there for thinking and feeling" Sure...but why?
One of the first steps for me in trying to understand my existence. Was to get to a place of trust. TRUST. There i had to write that again but in big letters because so few people actually do trust. Many people have said to me that they do trust and that they don't have a problem with it. Most say this because they think they know what I'm talking about. Trust in what though? You see in our lives we all have instances of trust. We trust our friends and family. Some might go as far as to say they trust their governments etc. Others would even say they trust themselves. But this trust always seems to refer to trust in the external. They trust friends to do things or be there, they trust themselves to act in a certain way if a situation should ever arise. All maybe true. So what kind of trust am I talking about? Trust in an idea of who we are and why we are.
In steps science and religion...
Scientists are constantly trying to break apart our world into smaller and smaller fragments trying to understand what makes us and everything else tick. People from religions and even spirtuality are trying to understand where we go to and where we come from. Essentially trying to understand the nature of our consciousness in relation to a reason for actually existing.
Now along the way you might read things I have written and disagree or feel that I have left things out or haven't covered every possibility and that their are exceptions to what I'm saying or I haven't said it clearly enough. Hey that's life and if we said everything perfectly in a moment well then maybe there would be less misunderstanding but then how on earth would we learn to truly listen and allow. How many times have our thoughts been interrupted by someone else because their need for worth is so strong they have to say it before you do. How many times have you been left thinking I was going to say that.
But this is just the beginning....
So along the way these pages may change or stay the same maybe you'll help me too. The goal? To find out not who you are but WHERE you are amongst all of this.
In different sections of this blog I'm going to talk about all sorts of things that make us human. The mind. The emotions. The body. and YOU. what some might call the spirit.
