Can you hear your mind?

 

 A conversation inside a psychology orientaion class-

"Hearing those voices which wander inside our head is traditionally regarded as a symptom of mental illness like psychosis, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and are not talked about because of fear of stigma.", said Professor Anthony.

"Sir, what do I call the voice inside my head?" asked Amanda, sitting in the middle row at the first desk.

While walking towards her, Professor replied, "That little voice inside your head exists in everyone, you can hear it when you are verbalizing."

"Is it a hallucination, Sir?" asked Johanes. from the left corner of the room.

"My dear, it has nothing to do with hallucination, it is just a process of learning to verbalize.", Professor answered,

Listening to all of this, Jermy came up with his query, "Sometimes, I get mixed voice inside my head, trying to defeat one another. How do I distinguish between them?"

Giving a pause for two minutes, Professor replied, "Those voices can either be a product of your anxious mind or something more intuitive and real."

Professor continued. "Thinking suggests something active, over which we have conscious control like it could be thoughts about future or the past. fragments of songs or conversations, daydreams about alternative realities of friends or celebrities but the situation turns around when we let these thoughts get control over ourselves." 

Interrupting in the middle, Jermy asked, "Does that mean those voices can be our gut feeling?"

"The voices in our head are powerful. It does not always have a negative impact until we have control over it.", Professor replied and continued "It can either be a positive experience or distressing."

Amanda stood up and said, "Yes Sir, I've read about it. One of the science technology teams believes that external factors are the key differences in distinguishing between those voices."

"Tell us more, Amanda.", said professor.

Amanda continued, "If a person is struggling to overcome a trauma of his childhood or views himself as worthless or other people as aggressive, he may be more likely to interpret those voices as harmful or hostile.

A person who has had more positive life experiences and formed more healthy beliefs develops a more positive view of those voices."

"Well said, my dear. Distinguishing between the voice of intuition and the voice of anxiety could help us to listen to our inner voice.", said professor.

Jermy said, "I feel this soul-crushing anxiety that makes little sense to anyone but myself is what makes trusting my inner voice a lot more difficult."

"Identify that negative voice which holds you down and pair it with a positive one.", professor replied.

He added, "The positive voice is comforting and inspiring. It doesn't come from fear, it just comes to you seemingly out of nowhere."

"Intuition is more of 'feel' rather than 'logic'."

"Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer."     -Robert Graves

Jermy asked, "Sir, how to deal with the negative thoughts and voices which comes out of anxiety?"

"Shutting down those voices is neither possible because it is an intrinsic part of our mind nor it is a solution because it also acts as an observer of our actions.", professor replied.

"Actions are controlled by our thoughts."

Professor walked toward the board, took a colorful chalk and wrote:

   'How do we deal with the voices which wander in our mind?'

➧Meditation

➧Practice Mindfulness 

➧Enjoy listening to your inner voices

While putting the chalk on the table, professor said, "There are infinite benefits of Meditation and one of them helps in slowing down the wandering thoughts in our mind."

"Out of sudden curiosity, Amanda asked, "How does Meditation help us with it?"

Professor replied, "By switching our attention to another focus- to our breathing, to chanting, to mantras, or a burning little flame. It slowly fades away our ambiguous consciousness of thoughts, and makes us experience the atmosphere of stillness."

"A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear."

Adding to this, the professor said, "Mindfulness means to focus on being in the moment. Practicing mindfulness is a technique to filter out all the distractions."

Amanda asked, "Sir, how is it possible to enjoy every thought which goes inside our mind?"

Professor answered her question by saying, "Many people from today's society have this idea that being positive or intuitive means to ignore their analytical mind, but it is not so.

Learn to listen to your intuition and anxiety, both. Differentiate between them instead of ignoring or doubting it."

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."           -Albert Einstein 

Professor, while giving an end to the class, said, "The thought inside you, is not YOU. Identify it, control it, and work successfully."


-Aashi :)