By Ahsan
The other day I walked into my bedroom and got excited. I had been so busy with this, that and the other, that my room was a complete disorganized mess. I immediately got into a cleaning spree.
The best thing about a messy bedroom is the feeling you get after you clean it up.
The room feels clean, and you feel like all is well in the world.
A similar phenomenon occurs with our minds. That is every now and then, just like your bedroom, it needs a clean-up session, and it needs to get organized.
Consider this little-known theory.
A well-organized mind offers you three things: greater peace, a sense of well-being and more joy. Although these words sound similar in meaning, they are not. You will appreciate their subtle differences if you keep your mind open.
Imagine if this theory is true. What if you could have lived the rest of your days with joy, with peace and a sense of well-being!
Let’s begin by considering that our mind is where we live and experience life itself. Two people can attend the same family picnic, and one may come away feeling happy and the other feeling angry. The angry one interpreted events to set off their anger. The happy person interpreted things that made them feel happy.
How we experience any event or interaction with people or things is a matter of our mental interpretation of what happened.
Here is another way of thinking about your mind. When you don’t fully understand who you are, you get caught up in the mental process.
You are not your thoughts. If you get angry, it is really because you let something irritate you, and your angry reaction took over. You may think that you got angry because someone or something caused you to be angry, but this is not true.
Your anger was really the result of having an unorganized mind. A mind that is organized will create just enough space to pause and choose to not get angry. A disorganized mind will get triggered instantly. The mind can only be organized with a regular commitment to be cleaned like your bedroom needs to be cleaned regularly.
If you believe and understand what I am saying, your organized mind will cause you to have peace.
Peace is about having the awareness that things are happening outside of you and that you are the conscious "entity" observing what is happening outside and choosing your inner feelings.
Your organized mind will cause you to have a sense of well-being.
Well-being is a state of knowing that you have the resources both internally to be happy and externally because you have life endowing sustenance. Internally you feel just right, and externally, you recognize the air you breathe is a blessing in itself.
Your organized mind will also create a feeling of joy.
Joy is the practical experience of being content with how things are happening in your life. An organized mind recognizes that people and things are not in our control. Everywhere life is happening and unfolding. Sometimes life goes our way, and it is easy to feel joyful. Other days life does not go our way, but the organized mind sees this as an acceptable reality. Joy to the organized mind does not depend on people or things. Why should it, and how can it?
So, if you are wondering what can be done to achieve an organized mind, do not worry.
Here is the formula:
Mind your MIND: Meditate, Investigate, Navigate, Deliberate
Meditate: Take at least 5-20 minutes every day to quiet yourself and slow your thoughts down. Sit up straight so you can breathe deeply and exhale deeply. Focus on a sentence that you like repeating, like: I am not my thoughts; I am the awareness observing my thoughts. Or, I am relaxed and in control of an organized mind.
Investigate: Knowing that you and I are not perfect, the next time you let yourself get carried away by your emotions, try to pinpoint what and why it happened. If you practice this, the next time the trigger appears, don't be surprised if your reaction was in your control.
Navigate: To navigate is to set a direction towards a destination. Your mind should lead you to where you want to go. Get used to giving your mind instructions. Turn left, go right. Be chill. Enjoy this sunset. Be one with the world.
Deliberate: Make sure you fully buy into this advice. Your organized mind is where you live to attain peace, a sense of well-being, and joy. Think about this theory and challenge its truth. Just like a goldsmith inspecting a piece of gold, you should make sure what you hold is indeed gold. Melt down the concept and put it to any test necessary.
Get going because your best life depends on this theory. And hey, if you need to, go clean up your bedroom while you are at it!
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