If you’re struggling with unwanted thoughts, the best way is probably to label them. How? By understanding who is the creator of those thoughts.
You have four brains, not one! This is what makes it very difficult. I’m NOT a doctor or psychiatrist, nor have I studied the brain, but I had this realization when struggling to find answers to my own problems.
+ 1. First, the front part of the brain, or the first brain, is conscious. You learn new skills with this part. It also activates when you become conscious of your actions. It makes you feel awkward. It consumes more energy relative to the third brain, but less than the second.
You have four brains, not one! This is what makes it very difficult. I’m NOT a doctor or psychiatrist, nor have I studied the brain, but I had this realization when struggling to find answers to my own problems.
+ 1. First, the front part of the brain, or the first brain, is conscious. You learn new skills with this part. It also activates when you become conscious of your actions. It makes you feel awkward. It consumes more energy relative to the third brain, but less than the second.
- 2. Second, the center part, or the second brain, is the survival brain. It is the oldest, most mature, and biggest. It’s responsible for all your fears. It has control of your body. It consumes the most energy. It will exhaust your mind and body if it stays too active. Read more about it.
+ 3. Third, the rear part, or the third brain, is subconscious. It is the most powerful. It does heavy lifting with ease and performs tasks gracefully. It consumes the least energy. You’re most natural when you keep operating from the subconscious. The goal of learning a new skill is to pass it from the front lobe (conscious) to the subconscious.
+ 4. Fourth, the inner lobe has pure consciousness (your feeling of the heart). Things done with the subconscious (rear lobe) with a sprinkle of heart give maximum pleasure and least exhaustion. The nature of this mind is to connect with other life forms. When it's more active, you'll feel loved and connected to every piece of life around you.
You’re the average of:
1 - 2 + 3 + 4
A person with less intelligence and a less active survival mind can outperform a more intelligent person with a more active survival mind.
Most battles you face in your mind are attempts to reduce the activity of your survival mind. When it's too active, it isolates you, creates walls, and blocks the flow of neurons between the 1st and 3rd parts of the brain. It clouds your mind and blocks the subconscious (3rd) from taking over, which does things naturally and consumes less energy. It blocks heartfelt (4th) connection with other life forms. You feel isolated. It creates fear. The more you fear, the more active it becomes. It's a loop. You must not fear when it's active to break this cycle.
When you struggle, you need to distance yourself and observe the activities of your brain. If you practice enough, you'll start to see clearly which part of your brain is currently more active and where the root of each thought lies.
One step deeper: Memory
One step deeper: Memory
All these parts of the brain have access to the same bag of memories, but each interprets them differently.
1. The front part interprets memories to sharpen skills.
2. The second part interprets memories to scan and find danger. For example, it makes you overthink something you said or did to avoid having a bad relationship with someone. This is because, for this part of the brain, being alone means being in the wild where hunters are all around you, and you can't afford to be left alone. Otherwise, you'll be hunted and end up dead.
3. The third part interprets memories to simply replay them as you go about your day. As you walk, you think of a joke and laugh.
4. The fourth part is almost unsullied by memory. When you learn to stay in the moment, in the present, you operate with this part.
Realization by Rushi Patel
1. The front part interprets memories to sharpen skills.
2. The second part interprets memories to scan and find danger. For example, it makes you overthink something you said or did to avoid having a bad relationship with someone. This is because, for this part of the brain, being alone means being in the wild where hunters are all around you, and you can't afford to be left alone. Otherwise, you'll be hunted and end up dead.
3. The third part interprets memories to simply replay them as you go about your day. As you walk, you think of a joke and laugh.
4. The fourth part is almost unsullied by memory. When you learn to stay in the moment, in the present, you operate with this part.
Realization by Rushi Patel