Welcome to our Mind!
Regulate Your Thought-Life
We often identify with our thoughts, believing they are true and believing they define who we are. But our thoughts are not the true person, and we have thousands of random, repetitive, and compulsive thoughts every day. We just need to dismiss some of our thoughts and regulate our thought life.
The Difference between our Brain and Mind
- Your mind is the totality of your experience of being you - cognitively, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
- When we speak about the brain, we refer to the physical collection of neurons in our heads and bodies.
- When we speak about the mind, we refer to the bigger perspective of being ourselves.
Some Facts about our Mind
- You do not control your mind: You probably don’t control your mind as much as you think. We have many wandering thoughts.
- You are not your thoughts: In most cases, thoughts arise randomly in the mind. But they’re not you. Instead, they’re just events playing out in your mind, as if your mind is arbitrarily flipping through radio stations.
- You are not rational: We like to think we’re rational beings. But in truth, we make choices based on emotions and rationalize them afterward.
- Your mind creates your reality: We don’t perceive things as they are, but as we are. Literally, our mind creates our reality.
Our Mind Creates our Reality
- Our mind creates our reality by filtering, interpreting, and assigning meaning to the sensory data we receive.
- While there is an objective world, our perception of it is subjective and shaped by our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and experiences.
- Essentially, the world "out there" and the world "in here" are deeply interconnected, and our minds act as the bridge between them, constructing the reality we experience.
See also: Psychology and Neuroscience
Self-Leadership starts in your Mind
- Self-Leadership is the ability to manage your own thoughts, behaviours, and actions.
- Self-Leadership is the foundation for effectiveness and productivity, and for living a life according to our values and aspirations.
- It’s about having the mental strength to delay gratification and instead work toward long-term solutions.
- Self-Leadership is about managing ourselves, so we can better lead our people, creating more meaning, connectedness, and a more people-centric culture.
