This blog is an excerpt from the book - How To Be Happy In Difficulties
Our mind receives millions of sensations at
any given moment but it can process only a few at a given time due to its
limited focusing capacity. So, our mind has to give selective attention to the
reality happening outside. Thus, it gives attention to some external stimulus
only, and ignores/rejects the remaining bits of information coming its way.
At any one moment, about 2.3 million bits of
information pass our way. However, we can focus on and internalize, into our
subconscious mind, a maximum of 7 + or - 2 units of information. The remaining
information gets rejected.
At an energy transmission level,
the external stimulus which the mind gives attention to is chosen in the
following manner:
Each form of physical energy in the
environment, whether it is light, sound, touch, smell, or taste, is a
manifestation of energy since everything in the universe is made up of energy.
Matter or energy is always
vibrating at a certain frequency .Different forms of energy are distinguished
depending on the frequency each vibrates in. For example, solids are
distinguished from air or water because the atoms or molecules in each vibrate
at a different frequency.
Every thought which is recorded in
our mind carries energy, in the form of an attached feeling. The feeling has an
energy component and an individual frequency.
This feeling or energy component in the
thought makes us aware that something exists in the external world. For
example, when we think of our work, we have some kind of a picture coming to
our mind which has a feeling attached.
Memories are made of feelings. Any thought which does not have a feeling
attached is a fleeting thought and is not recorded by the mind, because its
energy component dissipates as soon as the physical stimulus which created it
disappears.
E.g. At the end of a day, we remember how we
felt more than any other physical aspect of reality. We come across several
bits of information like the color of an office door, the design of a car seat,
the fabric of our dress material, the model of our phone, the pen on the table
etc. but we do not record these details as reality.
We dismiss physical details as peripheral
aspects of reality which can be ignored unless there is an element of a feeling
attached with the physical detail. To illustrate, if a colleagues’ dress evokes
jealousy, we would remember it as jealousy is a feeling. Or, if a car seat
evokes great positive feelings of comfort, we would remember it later.
We remember only those details which create
some sensation within us. The sensation generates a negative or positive
feeling in the body. We recall odd or striking occurrences of the day because
they generate strong feelings within us. Our stress, happiness and memories are
largely made only of feelings. Physical details only add depth to the feelings
or emotions being recorded.
In brief, we only record thoughts which have
feelings or emotions attached to them and do not record thoughts which do not
have feelings attached to them. Memories are emotional data recorded in the
brain.
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