The mind is a complicated dimension of the human system. One’s appearance can not reveal her thoughts, vulnerabilities, history, aspirations, and struggles. She may decide to be someone, someday but become a different human being due to lack of mental control. I have walked through many halls viewing pictures declaring one to “control thyself by controlling thy mind.”
This will never be easy.
The mind will always challenge your decision to conquer it. In fact, the mind is unconquerable. You may wake up one morning and decide to take over your life and control the positives vs negatives. On the other hand, your mind will interpret situations for you like the engine of a car propels it for movement. Until you don’t surrender to some mental thought, you will not be able to take another step forward in your life.
Society has combined many negative dimensions such as illness, negative self talk, dark places, emotional areas, and others with the mind. In fact, media has declared the mind to be at fault because it allows for such dimensions to “happen” and then, the human loses control. If we keep following these ideas, we may be separating the mind from the human body like something we must “deal” with whereas blood flows through our veins everyday and just because it is not causing much tension, we do not isolate it from our being.
Why can the mind not be our friend? Of course, I have seen posters about mindfulness classes, yoga, pilates, and such strategies to become “one” with the mind but this is step two. Step one is the recognition of separation from the mind. The baseline idea of befriending the mind has come from anger, sadness, or a boundary dividing the entire body and the mind.
The mind may not even want all this control society has framed us to think it has. Perhaps, there is a balance somewhere. Perhaps, there has always been a balance and positive societal awareness is all that was missing. Someone to say “everything is already okay here” is all that was missing.