The Minds Response

In Psychology “motivation” or “Drive” are technical terms meaning behavioral adjustment, which satisfies bodily needs such as hunger or avoidance of pain. Even though home static balance requires drive, all motivational behavior is not directly related to tissue needs for example, sexual or social behaviors. Emotion also plays a major role in homeostasis. Since states of mind are often expressed through bodily organs controlled by the automatic nervous system such as the heart, lungs, and the sweet glands.

Emotion like motivation leads to pervasive and adaptive behavior, such as fleeing (or Attaching) in threatening situation.

That in short, is the neuro-physiological basis of behavior, which keeps the body in balance while dealing with stress. To answer what is stress, it must be reiterated that everything is. It is the very business of life because every stimulus brings and adaptive changes. However, the concept of stress has expended to include more than body processes. This is perhaps the most acceptable formulation. Some form of relationship between the environmental demands and the person’s ability to meet the demands “What are these demands like? Let us look at the external ones first.

Many would of course, implicates work as the Chief Culprit. However, work is a basic human condition and, for most people “No work” is more stressful. But something else involved with work and not work might produce stressful demands on the individual. For instance, an easy going “younger brother” may be promoted to a post where he needs to adopt a responsible and authoritative role. Not being equipped for this, he fails prey to extreme conflict and stress.

Apart from such definite situations background or environmental pressures may be produced by the general ambience of our past changing society. Jobs those demand constant movement tours and transfers, the facing of new situations, the adoption of different values.

The internal sources of demands are so multitudinous that a whole book on depth psychology could be written on them. Some of these are ambitious and expectations, some are involved with the private and the projected images of the staff or with the personality, inborn as well as acquired and all operate, both consciously and unconsciously.

A top ranking executive might hotly deny that he expected to be looked after like a child, but this might be suggested by his behavior at one level while on another, he might be seen to assume the Pucca- Burra Saheb stance. The resulting misunderstanding conflicts and frustration might produce an unbearably stressful situation even in an apparently harmless environment.

Good Mindedness: - We all need to cultivate a habit and practice for good mindedness. We can define a healthy mind, or an unhealthy mind in many ways. For example:-           

A Healthy Mind                                                        An Unhealthy Mind

1.  A healthy mind remember                                 An unhealthy mind remember

      Pleasure.                                                          Pain.

2.  A healthy mind rejoices                                     An unhealthy mind resent being

     At the opportunity to give.                                  Asked to give anything. In any

 Form, be it love, comfort or Physical  service.

3.  A healthy mind in thankful                               an unhealthy mind suffers pangs

     When asked to give.                                        Of conflict when asked to give.

And so on, we can continue the definition for healthy and an unhealthy mind in many different ways.

We almost all have never invested a week, a month or preferably many, many years in there own self. A person who is serious about his life wills always does this the way one spend time making oneself successful in a career. Success in life is not success in a carrier, is not success in examination, but it is success in cultivating the kind of ideal one has for one’s personality.

The qualities we would like to cultivate, the kind of reaction we would like to have to situations, what our actual convictions about life is? If we want any kind of happiness, any kind of success in life, we have to sit, spend our spare minutes thinking about what an ideal personality is like.

Now, in this highly physically oriented society, don’t be with the impression that the kind of personality is depending upon hairdo physical body characteristics or the clothes one wears. A doll can be made to look like anyone; it will still not become a human being, but will remain a doll. Adoring one like a doll does not make a personality, or does keeping one ugly contribute to personality.

We have guidelines from all the ancient masters, saints, great men, and great women of the world as to what an ideal human being is like and how to set that as one’s goal in this life. And this is to be done irrespective at any personal consequences.

Now a day we have confused the word good with the word pleasant. "It feels good” now a day’s means, “It feels pleasant,” But what feels pleasant at this moment is not necessarily good. Good mindedness, however, does mean pleasant mindedness, not just an outwardly pleasant smile. You can plaster that smile. A healthy mind is a pleasant mind a mind in which pleasant thoughts arises; cultivate the habit of thinking those pleasant thoughts.

People say well, how can I think all these thoughts when I am so miserable? I do want to think pleasant thoughts but there has been so much pain in my life you don’t understand?