Given that we find it difficult to halt our continuous flow of thought, do you think our minds control ideas or ideas control our minds? Why?

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Given that we find it difficult to halt our continuous flow of thought, do you think our minds control ideas or ideas control our minds? Why?

Answer 1

All human beings are just listeners. In fact the spirits think and transmit their thoughts and ideas to a human mind but humans think that they themselves do it. You can control the thoughts only by diverting your mind on some other subject and staying in it for a while.



God cannot watch each and every human being at the same time. That's why He had created the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Your past determines your present and your present determines your future. God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings. According to this, all human beings have all right to live a life as they wish. But if it happens to be bad and hurts someone, they have to face the consequences. These consequences are created by spirits. It's a natural system. After death no one lives in any form. Heaven and hell are only for spirits. Spirits are separate elements. A human being is not a single spirit. A human being during his/her life time is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being is just a robot made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and a toy of the spirits for their games.

Answer 2

More like, it's difficult to maintain a solid positive flow of thought and everything else is an interruption. Therefore acknowledgeing ideas controls our minds. That's us giving it permission.

Answer 3

Ideas control our minds. Ideas control other ideas. Ideas come and go randomly. You don't choose them. To make a choice means to act upon an idea, so the thought of choosing what thought to have next is a contradiction. You have to have the thought first before you can make a choice.

Answer 4

Until recently, we in the western countries have thought that getting control of one's mind is a matter of will power, forcing the rebellious mind to obey. To do this, people have relied on guilt feelings and fears of consequences.



In January, 2014, Time had a cover story, "The Mindful Revolution," about MBSR, a program used to teach traditional meditation so that people can use mindfulness in their daily lives. With mindfulness, there's a different idea of concentration - not tensing up but relaxing, feeling at ease, which helps in dealing with distracting thoughts. This helps us to focus our attention. It's natural for us to be distracted by unwanted thoughts while we meditate or while we work, and there's no reason to be bothered by this. Seeing that the distraction is there, we calmly return to the matter at hand.



For details about mind-body methods and a free online version of MBSR, you're welcome to read my recent answers.

Answer 5

Philosophically speaking our ultimate aim is to reach our aim, goal or objectives in life. For this purpose physical self discipline, mental control, social orderliness and strict adherence to some highest level of moral standards are necessary.



Besides our Mind should be under our control. Mind should not dictate terms to us.



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Mind control (also known as brainwashing, reeducation, brain-sweeping, coercive persuasion, thought control, or thought reform) is a controversial scientific theory that human subjects can be indoctrinated in a way that causes "an impairment of autonomy, an inability to think independently, and a disruption of beliefs and affiliations. In this context, brainwashing refers to the involuntary reeducation of basic beliefs and values".



Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed during the Korean War to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to systematically indoctrinate prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. These theories were later expanded and modified by psychologists including Margaret Singer and Philip Zimbardo to explain conversions to some new religious movements (NRMs). This resulted in scientific and legal debate; with Eileen Barker, James Richardson, and other scholars, as well as legal experts, rejecting at least the popular understanding of the concept.



Other theories have been proposed by scholars including: Robert Cialdini, Stanley A. Deetz, Robert Jay Lifton, Michael J. Freeman, Daniel Romanovsky, Kathleen Taylor, and Benjamin Zablocki. The concept of mind control is sometimes involved in legal cases, especially regarding child custody; and is also a major theme in both science fiction and in criticism of modern political and corporate culture. However, in the view of most scholars, the theory of mind control is not accepted as scientific fact.



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Answer 6

My brain refracts all sorts of things from outside which stimulate the nerves which in turn stimulate the brain. Reflecting those stimulation's is the mind, a function that only works when there is something to reflect from the refractions. Otherwise the mind stays unconscious of any of the refractions. If there is something to reflect it is because there is a need to coordinate with something in reality which refracting alone is not advanced enough to survive the need to coordinate. The mind as a sensory function of more advanced coordinations in reality. Learning how to slow it down is a way to change the rate of flow with which it is percieved.

Answer 7

The mind certainly CAN control thoughts, but it is a learned skill.



Some 10 million Americans say they practice some form of meditation. Buddhism is unique among spiritual traditions in its emphasis on psychology. Its core teachings encourage practitioners to shake off suffering and discover happiness. The very concept of self-improvement informs bhavana, the Sanskrit word commonly translated as "meditation," though it literally means "cultivation." "It has exactly the same connotation as when we say we 'cultivate a garden,' " says Wallace.



It remains a radical notion in the West that benevolent states of mind such as concentration, kindness and happiness can be developed with practice. Apart from a growing "positive psychology" movement, many of whose leaders are in fact strongly influenced by Buddhism, Western scientists are still largely oriented toward healing the mentally ill, rather than improving the lives of the functionally OK. Recollect Freud's humble goal: to transform hysterical misery into common unhappiness. Western science is content to believe that each of us has a more or less genetically determined set point for well-being—and that happiness and love happen to us.



The Buddha framed things differently. He taught that our default mode may be to suffer, but only because of ignorance. We can transcend our lot by learning to quiet the mind in meditation—not merely to relax and cope with stress, as the popular notion of Buddhism holds, but to rigorously train oneself to relinquish bad mental habits. Rather than being an end in itself, meditation becomes a tool to investigate your mind and change your worldview. You're not tuning out so much as tuning up your brain, improving your self-monitoring skills.

Answer 8

It is clear to me that some "process" (we'll call it "mind") chooses which thoughts will occur - If not and if this were a random process we all would, in fact, be nothing but a bunch of disorganized "buzzing atoms" and certainly would not be sentient and creative entities. But it is also clear to me that thoughts lead to more thoughts (abstractions, inferences, etc) and hence "mind" and "ideas/thoughts" interact in a somewhat reciprocal fashion; there is a "conductor" but the "orchestra" has a fair amount of freedom as well.

Answer 9

Our minds are deficient in things. So we crave desire need. So desire urge need cintrols our actions. True. Then we are free. Fed. Satisfied. Completed. In this continium we are as free as our needs are met. When they are we are at peace, free. When they are not we rage in anger, we roam like maddened souls, like free spirits we fly coursing through the skies, we roam, searching for a higher ideal, a greater idyll. Ideas are our mind communicating its needs to us. Our mind is free it leaves us in bliss. Our mind is deficient it drives us to its nutritional need. We crave what we need. Once met we move on. Ideas, ideologies are our cravings, our needs, our desires unmet. They control us, drive us, control us, until our needs are met. Then we are free. When our needs are met.

Answer 10

That is a serious and critical question! I'll allow someone more knowledgeable on the subject to answer this for you, in these short vids. Hope this helps.

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Answer 11

Try meditation before you venture an opinion.

Answer 12

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Scientists don't see dinosaurs because of radiation. Only Eurasia and Alaska (both without coasts) will remain after demons blow up Antarctica (which surrounds the flat earth) and Greenland melts. Move to Ural Mountains or inland Alaska. Sionists wanted war between Russia and Germany from June 11th to October 11th on their holidays because (666 times 3)+(6 times 3) = 2016 (in their twisted logic).

Tube people = demons. Clones = demons. Human costumes that demons wear = demons. Dinosaurs and 666ed people have triple stranded DNA; normal person can't swallow 666ed food (designed for 666ed people). Demons live inside clones. Bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin (who discovered Bubonic plague) is depicted on the Shroud of Turin. There is another shroud (Shroud of Milan) on which blasphemer Yosef (who was crucified on a pole in 1066 AD) is depicted. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lenin (el=deity in Hebrew, nine = no in German; so, when chanted repeatedly is blasphemy against the Creator), and Yosef were possessed by Azazel; now, Rico Cortes is possessed by Azazel.

WW3 happens; 7% of people will be left; after people are tired of war, they will elect the antichrist as one world leader; don't vote. ISIS stands for Israeli Secret Intelligence Service. Next false flag: Statue of Liberty in order to attack Iran; one big shake, one giant step forward, one giant collapse. Move away from coasts as nukes will go off in the ocean (at where tectonic plates meet; result: megatsunamis 1km high).

Wear natural clothing so that if a bomb goes off it won't stick to the body as fast as synthetic clothes. All metal will be burned for fuel; so, save knives, crowbars, shovels, wood-burning stoves, etc. Also, save cloth/fabric/textile to cover the wounds and diseases.

Eat natural food because nanochips, cells of aborted fetuses, bug DNA, and other poisons are in food that is commonly sold; reject vaccines, medical care, medicine, etc. because nanochips are administered thru IVs, implants, fillings, etc. If 1000-1500 nanochips are in your right hand, then you can't make proper Orthodox sign of the cross with the right hand; last mercy for you then will be to cut the hand off.

Seraphim of Sarov and Sergiy of Radonezh will be resurrected after WW3 for a short time; Seraphim of Sarov will show the new Ruski Tsar who will fight the antichrist for about 2 years and 8 months. Those who go see Seraphim of Sarov will be healed of their infirmities/illnesses/sicknesses/ diseases; if you want to see him then, hurry because he won't stay longer than a few weeks.

Earth is flat; stands on 3 pillars (the Most Holy Trinity); pillars stand on water at zero Kelvin. Zodiac is planetary prison of demons; don't believe in horoscopes or you'll exhibit the traits of the trapped demons. Most thoughts and dreams are from demons; demons never do good. Sleep fully clothed; pray the Jesus prayer. Pray to your guardian angel to have normal sleep.

Humans were created about 7525 years ago. Ruski Orthodox Christian Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov was the last prophet before Enoch and Elijah return to preach against the antichrist.

Birds participate in time creation. It's a sin to kill birds. Dinosaurs live under our level. They will get out through sinkholes and lakes. To kill them, go for their nerves. Save the birds; but kill the dinosaurs. First dinosaur will come out of Volga River in Russia.

Demons grow human skin (from a sample taken during abduction) and put it on so as to look like us. Demons will invite people to be healed inside their UFOs; those who go will be like zombies after. Gov't provides demons with diamonds and allows demons to abduct people. If you're being abducted, slowly pray the Jesus prayer.



Don't panic. Demons use diamonds and souls to power their UFO craft. The bigger the diamond, the more it lasts. Demons have 4 UFO bases: 1)Moon 2)Inside fake mountain Kailash in Tibet 3)In lake Baikal in Russia 4)In Atlantis which is underneath the Mariana Trench in Pacific Ocean. There are no aliens. Nobody lives on other planets.

Airplanes that go down are hit by demons because they need the airspace to fight Jesus. Antichrist is pale with red eyes. He's possessed by Satan since he's 12 years old. He flies very fast; deceived people will say that "Christ is here; Christ is there". Sometimes, he wears blue robe over left shoulder while red robe is underneath. He wears gloves to hide long nails. He's surrounded by demons who appear as angels of light. Antichrist will trick people to believe that he can do mountain moving and resurrection (using holograms); fire from the sky is easy (considering the gases from pollution in the atmosphere).

Don't go into a UFO to be healed by demons. Green 666 is given by isotope rays on wrist or forehead when people stretch hands to receive small plastic grey card with no name on it (World Passport). Police will microchip and isotope ray people on the highways. Microchipped people will be influenced by computers to take grey plastic card; but when they do, 666 is given. Food stores will isotope ray people too. Antichrist will also release prisoners to mark people. Reject 666 at all cost because it leads to permanent hell.

If you're about to be marked, pray the Jesus prayer. Hide with Orthodox Christians to escape 666; leave all electronics behind so that antichrist's minions can't track you. Give to charity in the name of Archangel Michael; he rescues people from temporary hell twice a year (or brings them up a level, that is, to a level with less punishment; eventually, people are freed). Feed the pigeons; when pigeons bow down, people are saved from temporary hell. Forgive me.



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