My Story Page 63: Status Quo

As we saw in the last post, a vicious circle of status quo gets established and maintained by the interaction and counter-interaction among the three variants of the human mind body system.

It is this vicious circle that resists any permanent healthy change in the diseased humanity that we all are the members of.

Now, these are the three points that we are dealing with:

• The body posture
• The eyelid lift
• The mind

How do the three affect one another and with what results?

As I told in the last post, the way we lift our eyelid indicates what dominant emotion our mind is with.

If the dominant emotion changes, the geometry of the eyelid lift changes too.

Just try it with yourself, imagine (like actors do and act!) being in a particular emotion and check how your eyelid lifts itself. You will yourself come to establish a connection between the two.

Any and every emotion stops the eyelid from opening to its fullest along and across its full length and breadth. It presses the eyelid down at this point or that along its width and across its opening length.

And if we open the eyelid full along and across its total length and breadth, no emotion is left there in the mind.

Rather a new thing fills up the mind, which even stops every single thought into it.

It is interest.

Being interested in what we are looking at!

Don’t confuse being interested with liking a thing and therefore looking at it with more gusto.

Rather it turns us interested in whatsoever we are looking at, at that particular moment, whether we like it or not.

In fact liking and disliking are emotions too.

Being interested takes us out of our likes and dislikes as well.

Opening the eyelids right takes us out of our status quo that our mind is in.

There are hundred and one ways of opening the eyelids wrong but there is only one to open them right.

Now, what effect does it have on the body posture that we have gone habitual of keeping since our childhood?

It doesn’t immediately affect the posture, it being a less fluid and more rigid thing.

It is real difficult to break the status quo of the body posture through eyelid lift or mind shift.

It takes its own sweet time.

But we can fasten the process if we go the other way round.

I mean to say the way of changing the geometry of the body posture!

We’ll be going into its details in the next post.

My Story Page 62: Eyelid Lift

Eyelid lift is what connects the body to the mind.

The way we lift our eyelids, decides what emotion we are in.

Or the emotion we are in, decides how we shall lift our eyelids.

Generally individuals are having a complex array of a combination of emotions that they normally live in.

Whatever the variations in their individual psyche are, are minor deviations from this personal array only.

So, normally an individual has her/his own personally peculiar eyelid lift that s/he lives and interacts with.

And that is what gives different expressions to different individual eyes.

It not only gives different expressions to different individual eyes but also to different individual faces.

And it not only gives different expressions to different individual faces but also TENDS to give a different individual posture to different individual bodies.

Rather it DOES, in the due course of time!

Now let us take a break here. What I am telling you right now in these lines is written there in no book of knowledge on earth. It is what I myself deduced after a long, painstaking research on my own and my volunteers’ bodies.

The habitual lift of the eyelid has a connection not only with the mind but also with the time we are focused at.

It may be distant past, recent past, immediate future, distant past or the very present, i.e., right now - here!

With ‘right now’, it is ‘here’ also; meaning thereby that it is not only linked to time but to space also. The right lift of the eyelid makes us see one single point in space more vivid and clear than the vicinity around.

It makes us focused at one single point in time and at one single point in space.

But that is when the said lift is a perfect one without any unhealthy distortion into it.

OK, over with our break now!

The habitual kind of eyelid lift decides the posture that the body is going to be set in, in the due course of time.

Now, this individual habitual kind of eyelid lift is what the habitual pattern of an individual mind is.

Body tends to acquire a habitual posture due to the kind of mind it has.

Or due to the kind of lift that it normally opens its eyelids with!

But then the body posture that has been acquired over the due course of time TENDS to keep the eyelid lift and the mind the way they are.

A vicious circle of status quo gets established and maintained by the interaction and counter-interaction among the three variants of the human mind body system.

It is this vicious circle of status quo that resists any permanent healthy change in the diseased humanity that we all are the members of.

Now, these are the three points that we are dealing with:

• The body posture
• The eyelid lift
• The mind

I will start discussing in my next post how the three affect one another and with what results.

My Story Page 61: Freedom

Freedom from fear and greed!

It means saying bye to all emotion in essence.

Are emotions necessary in life?

Our culture thinks so. It thinks that a man without emotions will either turn a stone or a machine. But it does not know that these are emotions only that turn us into a machine. They are so addictive in nature!

Emotions are thoughts imbibed with energy into them. Different kinds of emotions are simply different kinds of thoughts with the same energy imbibed into them.

Now, where does this energy come from in order to get imbibed into our thoughts giving them altogether such a different shape as to be known by a totally new word named emotion?

Are we born with them?

No, when a child is born, s/he has an almost empty mind with her/him. And yes, the brain is inactive too.

We are born with instincts and senses. Both take their inputs to the brain. But the body cannot support itself. The brain cannot order the muscles to perform a required physical action. It needs a caretaker to do so. The mother plays this role.

And so the helpless child gets attached to her for the instinct of her/his survival. It is a temporary phenomenon that has been designed to stay there till the child is helpless. The moment her/his physical organism achieves maturity, her/his mind is also supposed to turn adult.

Adulthood means freedom from all attachment, all emotion, all dependence upon others.

But emotion means dependence along with attachment or detachment either in the form of liking a thing (positive emotions - desire and hope) or in the form of disliking (negative emotions - fear and hatred).

We need to come out of this dependence in order to turn adult and embrace freedom of both, the body and the brain so that the two are able to work efficiently in conjunction with each other.

They don’t, when adulthood is not able to get rid of mind and its prejudices.

In fact, we never turn adult; and always keep desiring for more money and more love.

Here some of you will tend to interrupt and assert that at least without love, life will remain no life at all. I agree life without love will no more be a life worth living; but it is not the love we desire to get, but the love we unconditionally give to others that makes it worth it.

In fact, such unconditional love is not an emotion but energy that gives us passion to live.

It is compassion. It is no emotion. Being unconditional, it gives us freedom; it does not let us remain attached or dependent.

Life turns full of all the bright colors of love, freedom, care and responsibility; none of which passes to be an emotion at all.

But what happens if we turn our attention on getting love rather than giving it to others without any condition to get it back from them?

And why does it happen so that we want to get it more than we give it; and also if we give it lots, we do so only till the other reciprocates with the same amount back. The moment s/he stops doing so, our love also retreads its steps.

The mind goes slave to the reactions that we do to other people’s actions and our freedom to do our independent actions is lost in the oblivion.

We never turn adult and we never turn free of the basic roots of emotion - the fear and the greed.