2022902 : mind - stroke

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Disclaimer: These thoughts and views are mine based on thinking and feeling. They have no medical backing so please take it with a pinch of salt or discard entirely 🙂

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All of the brain stroke cases, ischemic, hemorrhagic or any other type leads to a damage to a part of the brain.

The body is a slave to the brain , entirely - 100%. Various functions of the body are impacted depending on where the stroke occurred and the extent of damage it caused.

The brain is difficult to heal. It has the capacity to heal but takes instructions only from the mind. Yes, I think the brain is a slave to the mind, 100%. Yes, the brain can be exercised through external therapy and drugs etc. However I think it can only be healed by the mind. 

Where is the mind and is it separate to the brain? I don't know the answer to that with certainty, but I think it is. I also don't know if the mind resides in the head or the whole body or somewhere else, but I do think it is seperate to the brain.


The brain can effectively heal only after the mind is healed. There are various therapies and drugs but for the body and brain but the mind has to be healed - foremost and alongside to everything else. Most of the time external help is needed but also from within alongside.

Which brings me to the question - how to employ the mind effectively to heal the brain?

I don't know the "silver bullet" answer to that as well but maybe a partial direction to the answer..

1. Keeping the mind active - doing something, anything, nothing in particular. Helps doing new and interesting things. Keeps the mind active and exercised 

2. The mind gets all kinds of thoughts. Embracing all of them - even the negative and bad ones is needed. Accepting that bad thoughts are not bad - acting on them is. (I don't know of any criminal justice system in the world that prosecutes bad thoughts without action. Except karma philosophy of course). Over time, the mind gets tired/ jaded of those kinds of thoughts and stops that line of thinking.

3. Failures are part of the physical world and not of the mind world. It is just previous time, this time and next time for the mind. It certainly doesn't help with thinking I have failed to do something but to think it couldn't be done this time, there will always be a next time.

4. Recognising that the mind is absolutely ours , 100%. Everyone else will have an option and something to say. To accept external opinions and inputs but to be insulated from being hijacked by it and getting bogged down by it.

5. Accepting mortality of the body (& the brain). I don't know how to describe this correctly, but genuinely accepting and embracing it is very liberating to the mind. It helps not giving up what can be done but accepting the outcome and not associating success and failure to the actions.


There will be several other things but these are a few directions that may be helpful. It's exercises to keep the mind fit if you will.

I certainly have nothing causal to say these things but I can see a correlation...


PS: Just to complete the story, what controls the mind? What/ who is the mind a slave of? I don't the answer to that as well. From a bookish/ theoretical perspective, there is an other entity - it the goes by the name of self/soul/ consciousness and many other esoteric sounding aliases. I definitely don't know anything about it though and will refrain from further commenting on it.


Comments

  1. Sanjeev3/9/22 23:46

    Interesting thoughts about mind. Mind is probably the single most powerful entity that can make or break anything. Humans have been given the most evolved mind which can be a boon or bane...and humans are proving that time and again. All this is done by mind through its communication mechanism - Thoughts!

    Meditation is how we can control our mind and thoughts but that's easier said than done.

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  2. Vinod KD13/9/22 00:06

    > The mind gets all kinds of thoughts. Embracing all of them - even the negative and bad ones is needed. Accepting that bad thoughts are not bad - acting on them is.
    That is deep. Will relate this to my mom who worries a lot.

    >(I don't know of any criminal justice system in the world that prosecutes bad thoughts without action).

    Not (yet) real world, but remember Minority Report? They had the concept of precrime! And much before that the Orwellian concept of thought crime. One more movie: Equilibrium which came up with the idea of sense offense: feeling emotions is a crime in that movies world.

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