Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation) to the ones paying heed, this is where we try to draw your attention to things that matter and the importance of our attention, why is that? Now ‘let us remember this again, ‘What we give our Attention to matters,’ as Our life’s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.
Attention: is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices. And that is our endavour.
This week I bring to your attention an excerpt titled – Maintaining a Stable World from a collection of articles titled ‘Our Mind In the Modern World’ by Robert Ornstein, PhD; David Sobel, MD, MPH; and Sally Mallam
These articles draw our attention to the fact as to how we have created an unprecedented world for ourselves, whereas all other animals live inside their original habitat where they have adapted ‘by design’ to it. And the way forward for us in our unprecedented creation would be an evolution of our consciousness.
Maintaining a Stable World
The achievement of the human mind is to have stability in a world where there is constant change. There’s a lot of work behind the scenes to make this happen, and it comes at great cost: We have to simplify, overgeneralize, ignore, predict, and make assumptions. It’s a constant that much of our experience is edited out scene by scene, moment by moment, feature by feature. Remember: You haven’t seen your nose lately, nor are you aware of what happens, thousands of times per day, when you blink and the world doesn’t disappear into a black nothingness.
Our experience of the world assembles in a fleeting instant, with no time for thinking but just enough for producing a best guess of the world. To act quickly we assume a lot about the world we perceive.
It is very difficult for us to judge anything absolutely, as we are wired to measure things only by comparison. Things are not heavy but are heavier than we expect or were previously experiencing — brighter, richer, more intelligent. We adapt to temperatures, to a level of income or net worth, to comfort, to taste; and we judge based on our assumed level of adaptation.
What we actually experience is the category which is evoked by a particular stimulus, not the occurrence in the external world.
Excerpt from ‘Our Mind In the Modern World’ by Robert Ornstein, David Sobel & Sally Mallam
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Enjoy reading it with your family, friends and near and dear one’s.
Namaste!
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