Unfolding The Storage Containers In Our Mind

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Jun

Unfolding The Storage Containers In Our Mind

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The mind is a giant storage container . It holds our thoughts, emotions, judgments, ideas, knowledge, values and expectations. Humans interpret the world around them by compartmentalizing these neuro chemically based impulses and lightning fast flashes of thought into neat little boxes, such as good or bad, right or wrong, ugly or pretty, useful or useless. These assumptions reverberate through our personalities and are expressed to the world without our even realizing it. It is the wet clay that molds and shapes our view of ourselves, of others and of what is possible, and forms a strong base for the layers of experience that are assembled and built upon throughout the years. We create our experience based on the judgments, thoughts and assumptions that we make about the world.

Some sections of the storage container that is our brain have been closed for years, perhaps for our entire lives. The experience of being born, for instance, is not something that most people easily recall. Coming from the relative safety and isolation of your mothers dark, wet womb and falling into a noisy, bright and chaotic world, lungs burning with your first gasp of actual breath, being touched and manipulated by strangers, must feel incredibly traumatizing and intense. Birth profoundly affects the rest of our lives, even though the vast majority of people completely forget that first moment of life where you felt alienated, frightened and alone for the very first time. The storage container is locked up tight, stored away, and forgotten. Or so it seems. Trauma from childhood, though it may be buried and hidden, still resides within us, and still affects us.

Just because the storage container is closed and locked does not mean that the memories that live within them do not exist. The storage container that is our mind is permeable, you see. It is an ironic twist of physics that what appears to be a solid mass is really composed of mostly empty space. The reason that you can not put your hand through a wall is not that the wall is solid. On the contrary, the atoms that comprise both the wall and your hand are made up of 99.99 percent space.

It is the electromagnetic properties of matter that keep things appearing separate. Just as everything is composed of space and energy, always moving, never static and able to change form instantaneously, so too do our thoughts change form and affect our lives deeply. One never truly knows the origins of our habitual behaviors and defense mechanisms.

Keeping the box open, allowing yourself to remain flexible in this world of unending possibilities and letting the energy flow the way that it will, gives your compartmentalized and rigid mind the freedom to explore. Be open. Be willing to learn. Fluidity and presence of mind enter when the heart is not closed, when the box is not closed. Graceful acceptance of all of lifes mysterious phases and opportunities gives one the perspective that anything is indeed possible. After all, living your life within the tight confines of a self constructed box may keep you feeling safe, but like the baby in the mothers womb, isolated and void of new experience. It is not until you experience the fear and trauma of breaking free that the world in all of its splendor opens up before you.

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