Jules -Mar 24, 2013, 9:19PM

This is great! I like the point saying "You are not your mind" I never thought of it like that but it is so true. I am going to try to carry these aspects with me every day. http://bohobrain.wordpress.com/

Lacey Hanemann -Mar 03, 2013, 11:29AM

I'm only five pages in and I've already learned so much.. This is a conversation I had with my friend. Me: So this book teaches you that you're a slave to your brain. That the control we give our brains is why we experience anxiety and depression. It helps you realize that the brain is just like you heart. It keeps you alive. It works for you. Nothing more. The reason we have dark unwanted thoughts is because we've allowed our brains to become its own being. There is me, then there is my brain. We are separate. It's the same as saying there is me then there is you. Our brains have formed their own consciousness that isn't for our good. And if we can accept that and take steps to change that we can be free of negative thoughts. When the separation actually happens and your brain is yours again you're in a constant state of meditation and can choose for yourself what thoughts, good or bad, you choose to have. Her:Wow that's Amazing. So I assume its probably difficult to get control back? Possible of course but does he explain how Me:Yeah you go through exercises. Right now I'm not reading anymore until I am able to separate myself without making the conscious decision to. Until its just natural. Like instead of having bad thoughts and asking myself why I can't let go of things I have to tell "her"(my brain) to stop. That I don't have time for her bullshit. To get mad at her and basically mentally walk away from her. It's like being around someone you dislike; you just leave. People who say they dislike themselves are wrong. They dislike their brain as a conscious being. At least that's the understanding I took on what I've read so far. Her:So the conscious being brain...that's still created by us or no? Me: What are you asking? If we as individuals created this conscious in our minds? If so it's unclear currently. I think the devil exists. Not like in the bible but in our souls and circumstance, hereditary even. I think the development of humanity has awakened parts of the spirit that are so powerful because they were intended to drive passion and creation and will to live. But we built buildings and made money and that part of the soul lost purpose and reworked itself to compliment what force had the strongest pull on humanity, power, wealth, status, etc. So I suppose I do think we did this to ourselves but not we as in me and you. Out ancestors, our devils. We don't recognize the strength of the human spirit. We think we're sad because we've lost our spirit when in reality it evolved to what we made it think would better suit us. We've mutated our own souls. After five pages. This book is a miracle. And maybe I'm gathering things wrong because I haven't read it all, but I like what I'm gaining none the less.

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