FACT
The longer you hold on to a burden the heavier it becomes.
GOOD IDEA
Put it down and do something about it.
PEACE OF MIND
If you are anything like me there are times when your mind seems to have a will of its own. I have learned that you can control your mind. Yes, it is difficult and yes, you do have to practise. But peace of mind can be yours.
WHAT IS IT?
It is the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, reason and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.
WHERE IS IT?
Scientists agree that they have yet to discover where the mind is! Its location remains a mystery.
IS THE MIND PART OF THE BRAIN?
Confusion can arise on the question of where
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If we don’t know what the mind is, then it is difficult to know where to find it. So, does God have the answer?
In his book ‘Conversations with God’ Book 3, Neale Donald Walsch has a dialogue with God on the subject. He is told that our mind is not in our head; it is in every cell of our body. As there are more cells in your brain than anywhere else, is why it seems as if the mind is there.
God explains, “What you call the mind is really an energy. It is thought. And thought is energy, not an object. Your brain is an object. It is a physical, biochemical mechanism – the largest, most sophisticated, but not the only mechanism in the human body, with which the body translates, or converts, the energy which is your thought into physical impulses. Your brain is a transformer. So is your whole body. You have little transformers in every cell. Biochemists have often remarked at how individual cells seem to have their own intelligence.”
THE BUDDHIST VIEW
A good explanation is given by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in his book ‘Introduction to Buddhism’, where he describes the mind as a ‘formless continuum that functions to perceive and understand objects’. He says that it would be impossible for the body to go to the moon without travelling in a spaceship whereas our mind can reach the moon instantly just by thinking about