SANE MIND
RAMÓN ANTONIO LARRAÑAGA TORRÓNTEGUI
Diploma and
Master's Degree in Human Development FESC- National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The human mind is one of the most fascinating places,
at the same time unknown to that mysterious continent that is the human
personality or the water bag from which our body and brain fat are formed. In
it live the most terrifying demons, as well as the most powerful geniuses, it's
just a question of who you decide Who are you active? Human beings are a small
sea in miniature. The mind is an enigmatic inner field that seduces us and
continually challenges us, whispers in our ear mysterious charms that make our
conscience shudder, even to derive before their immediate claims are
unintelligible but they are present without giving respite to the pool of
fullness .
There are the keys and the answers of our behavior, of
our fears, of our complexes, of the criticizable actions. But it is also there,
sheltered by the most terrible inventions, that there is the mysterious door
that leads us to the much sought happiness or untimely misfortune. The protein
and lipose matter and its multiple bridges of connectivities
"Neurons" with which the brain is made is always changing, deceptive
and subtle. Sometimes it is frankly frustrating to know that this is where the
key to our behavior lies, and when we think that we have trapped it, it slips
away again and again like fine sand between our fingers, a thousand times it
escapes us as if we wanted to catch the drops of water with your bare hands.
And it is precisely from this field called the
brain which is protected with a bone shell thinner than the shell of a coconut,
from which arises our dialogue with the world, our discourse. That is why you
are the next question Have you noticed that there are people with whom you
always end up talking about the same thing? For example, there are those who
end up talking about football, no matter what theme you have started with. the
talk, and no matter how many times you talk to them, they always end up talking
about the same thing.
Others end up talking about religion, others end up
always complaining, their drunkenness, their wife or criticizing, there are
those who inexorably end up talking about sex, or their past glories, or
themselves, or politics. Of course, it is always easier for us to see
objectively the lives of others, their complexes, their defects, their mistakes
and occasionally their virtues (as long as recognizing them does not confront
us). And as proof of this, pay attention to a very significant fact, we all
have the best advice and the best opinion for the problems of others, however
we suffer from the right answers for our own and as if this were not enough, we
give advice to who He never asks us or we want to correct people without
turning to see our faults.
To a great extent, that morbid satisfaction that we
obtain by criticizing others, is due to the feeling of apparent superiority we
experience in "realizing" something that the victim of our criticism
has not observed and we came out in resonance interrupting his speech to defend
what that we consider the truth Thus, we form before ourselves an image of our
intelligence and cunning or at least we want to pretend. And in this way many
of us go through life feeling very clever, because no one can deceive us,
because we know "on what foot they hobble" all those who approach us,
but we do not understand or do not want to look towards our defects "We
see the straw in the other's eye and we can not distinguish the bar in one's
own ".
However, I sincerely consider that there is no
advantage in being experts in recognizing the errors of others, because our
defects represent the set of things that we are not and in the great majority
are the mirror of ours. So this is simply a regrettable waste of time. On the
other hand, those who have invested their time in the futile task of being
"good critics" are very likely not to be aware of their own
shortcomings and their own discourse with the world.
Because just as there are those who always conduct
their talks to a particular subject without realizing it, we also have our own
discourse, and because we are seeing the straw in someone else's eye we do not
see the beam in our own. Truly it is frightening to undertake this journey in
trying to know us, because as I said at the beginning, there "In the
brain" hide the most terrifying specters but also there are the secrets of
our own power, those secrets that can turn us into powerful giants, or Trojan
horses.
Not in vain was it read in the legendary oracle of
Delphi in ancient Greece: "Man, know yourself, and you will know the
universe and the Gods." People prefer to see the faults of others because
we are afraid to see that ours are the same or worse, we are afraid to
recognize our own selfishness, our own mediocrity, we are afraid to recognize
our cowardice, our pain, our anger, we are afraid to admit that we are not
always right, that we are not as nice or intelligent as we have always
believed.
These and a thousand other flaws that threaten us from
the shadow of our small mass of fat and proteins (Lipoproteins) protected by a
thinner shell than that of a coconut. We know that the demons are there and we
assume that they are powerful and will cause us a lot of damage and a lot of
pain if we see them face to face. So we lock them up even though they manifest
as complexes that are not easy to hide or in marked defects. We hide our faults,
and then naively pretend to forget them, in a vain effort to see if someday,
they have simply disappeared. And for that forgetfulness to be more effective,
we focus our attention on pointing out the defects of those around us, even
reaching sarcasm, ridicule or ridicule.
However, there is something ironic and even funny in
all this, because those defects that we so hard, with tenacity, and effort we
strive to hide, it turns out that everyone knows them and we are so incredulous
that we believe we keep them hidden from view foreign. Do not you find it
funny? Have you ever wondered what you end up talking about? What is your
frequent talk? Now, in my opinion, the fundamental thing is not essentially
knowing what our own talk is about, but what is the reason why we always have
that subject in mind, to the point that not only our conversations revolve
around it, but All our life, so much that we arrived to represent a scratched
record "Dale y dale" annoying those who listen to us and every time
we arrive they put crosses to us knowing that we will follow the same
exhausting and annoying routine.
This game that makes us look ridiculous, it only has
one way to solve it, and that way is to stop shying away from that inexorable
encounter with our spirit. And if now you're wondering, but how do you do that?
The answer is much simpler than you imagine, but in that simplicity there is an
enormous complexity at the same time. The answer is Do not ever lie to
yourself! do not pretend that something does not happen when it happens, do not
deceive yourself thinking that someone will come to solve your own problems, do
not blame others for what happens in your life, do not feel sorry for yourself,
strive for always see things as they are and not as you would like them to be,
not dramatics, give each thing its just value, admit when you are wrong,
silently recognize the virtues of others. Is this going to make your talk
recurrent, and angry disappear?
The words and actions of a person whose conscience is
asleep are not the same, and what they most aspire to is to be approved or
accepted, to be popular, to satisfy their selfish needs, than that of another
person whose decanted conscience avidly seeks beauty. , justice, seeks to serve
and help the needy, seeks to mitigate the pain of the oppressed or the needy.
More concretely, the discourse of a politician and egoist, or that of a corrupt
politician and demagogue, is not the same as that of Mother Teresa of Calcutta,
or that of Mahatma Gandhi.
Dear reader, you only need a stimulus to start
transmuting your talk ... to believe that it is important to do it! It is the
first step to start by recognizing what happens to us. I do not know if it is
your case, but most of us tend to focus much of our attention and our energy on
observing other people's shortcomings, their shortcomings and limitations and
we disregard our own or simply hide them with the hope that they will go
unnoticed. Many people are educated to feel that it is worthless and that
recognizing a virtue of their own is an act of pride and vanity, and so in that
mistaken desire for humility, we go through life exhibiting our miseries and
shortcomings as if they were a prize, and hiding our virtues as if they were a
curse.
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