Buddhist tradition, occupied the study mental phenomena for over a thousand quinentos years, when concerns perception, considered to mind as another sense organ, hence in that tradition to speak of six sense organs. Western tradition on the other hand, speaks of five. live in either of these cultures, has a major impact on how people in one way or another, live their everyday life. In particular, the importance is to determine which of the many issues-possible-you are going to pay attention to the immediacy of living. In the West, you should consider: what you see, what you hear, what you play, what you smell and what you eat. In the East, in addition to these five, you should provide not only care, but that principal attention mental phenomena that occur in you, such as your intention, your motivation, your tendency (attachment, aversion or indifference) your feelings, your emotions, your thoughts, your inner dialogue, because they are, (or are perhaps) the root of your actions. "The body follows the mind like the ox cart or shadow the body" says an ancient Tibetan aphorism.
"I know I was thinking," "I do not know how this happened to me," but if I had no bad intention, "" I thought it was no big deal "," suddenly it was too late to reverse things "" It was like waking from a bad dream, "" caught me bad, "" it seems that the devil is in the "along with many other similar expressions reveal the lack of attention the sixth sense organ.
Western tradition advises: "Listen to what happens around you." The East long before adding: "Listen well to what happens in your mind." Belong to one or another tradition makes a huge difference for time to live, "the immediacy where we always operate, whatever the given situation" as stated by F. Varela. This immediacy of the live stage concrete, have the characteristics that are, as
Candace Pert, a celebrated American researcher in molecular biology, brain, and in his time Director of the National Institute of Health in the U.S., whose book "Molecules of emotion" broke sales records, said in a recent interview that
kind of thoughts do you have? What sticks? Rejects what? What is your intention? What are your feelings? Is it a grateful or resentful of your life? are questions central in understanding the structure of the disease that brings a patient to medical appointments. Unfortunately, rarely are made for the simple reason that education in the schools Medicine, does not include mental phenomena, emotional, affective and so on., The patient, as the central fact of pathophysiological processes that ultimately lead to damage functional and tissue, or because the doctor is very embarrassed by having to meet the target patients per hour than your employer requires.
Literally, certain types of thinking ill of whom the body generates. Others, fortunately, help it heal.
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For now, begins to activate your sixth sense organ, PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR MENTAL PHENOMENA!
