For some, exploration of one’s mind is a simple and rewarding process. Memories both good and bad, the realizations of one’s system and train of thought; all of which hold key elements to a human’s development. It can be beneficial to slow down once in a while, and delve into your subconsciousness, to seek answers to your busy and unpredictable mind.

It can however, be a place of fear and tribulation. One can get horribly lost in the mind, in all its wonder and glory. You can loose touch of the conscious self, the outer world.

In today’s over stimulated society, where TV and the internet have facilitated a new way of releasing the tensions of real life, it can be hard to sometimes listen to your mind, and slow it down.  The new age movement of yoga and meditation seeks to relax your brain’s mess of thoughts, but is it enough? Is society and life today really much different than it was 2,000 years ago? Marcus Aurelius wrote of the busyness and stressful lives of the roman empire, only to form Stoicism in its original form. To seek out tranquility and peace of the mind and life.

In seeking too far into the depths of your mind, and attempt to put reason to each and every thought and idea, is only to seek a means of insanity. Life’s mysteries, such as the constant seeking of a factual and reasonable explanation of God, the inner workings of the world of dreams, and the understanding of one’s own train of thought, are things which we as human beings have yet to establish strong holds of. Since the beginning of written history, humans have come to seek their existence and the mind. To do so in an uneducated matter is in a way, resembling the first of our forefather’s same struggle of their quest for answers. Should we not research and examine the history of these quests?

This borders on both Human Psychology and Philosophy. There is nothing wrong with seeking out these answers. But in doing so do not overstimulate your life with technology. Instead enjoy what there is out in the world. Learn the history of our ancestors and their own discoveries of the same situations we suffer every day before you continue to do so yourself. It will strengthen your own search for answers. To lose yourself in your own mind, and begin to suffer the horrors the mind really can develop by doing so, is ultimately creating your own personal hell to which you will have no way out.

Out lives are short, and our ancestors’ were even shorter. Learn to strengthen yourself, live your life and enjoy what this world around us offers, and don’t become charged with a struggle so many have lost will in fighting. To snap out of this grim place is to realize that life really is precious, and not always worth self discovery.

I’m not saying we should not seek our the answers of life on our own time, nor am I saying we should leave it to better minds to do so for us. I’m saying make sure you have the proper knowledge and depth of what our ancestors have already established, and create your own understandings of these discoveries before attempting to search out through your own mind. One cannot learn all there is to learn about the mind by only searching out their own, on their own.

Keep your hats on tight, and your heads on even tighter. This road is windy, and it always gets worse before the light creeps through the trees. If you see me on the side of the path smelling the flowers, you’ll know I took my own advice.

Keep on truckin’.

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