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Chapter 137 Awareness and Emotional Control

Xuan Yuan nodded:

"Correct."

"The core mystery of consciousness lies in this perspective."

"Have you ever had the experience of being suddenly startled while watching a horror movie?"

Cynthia nodded.

"When watching a horror movie, the brain is tricked by visual images."

"The quality of a horror movie is very good. When you are fully involved in the plot and focus too much, the perspective will be temporarily shifted from yourself to the movie unconsciously."

"At this time, the sense of substitution arises, and you will unconsciously have an illusion that you mistakenly think that a certain character in this movie is yourself, and then forget the reality of sitting in the theater at this time."

"Under the influence of the sense of substitution, you naturally have the tendency and instinct for self-preservation."

"When the character encounters a sudden attack or accident, it will startle you, as if you have also encountered a terrible scene, or you are also being attacked."

"If there is no story plot and sense of substitution, even if you directly intercept these horror clips for you to watch, although you may be shocked by the picture, you will never have such a strong sense of crisis, and you will not still have lingering fears after watching it for a long time .”

"This is a very typical perspective shift phenomenon in life, but the degree is not deep."

Xinia thought about it:
"So, what exactly is this perspective?"

Xuan Yuan smiled:

"This perspective is what people usually call awareness."

"In order to let you experience the effect of awareness, let's do an experiment."

"From now on, neither of us will speak and remain silent until I speak."

Xinia nodded:
"it is good."

Xuan Yuan and Xiniya fell silent.

Xuan Yuan first looked at the little skirt Xinia was wearing for a while. Seeing that Xinia was a little shy, he silently turned his head and looked at the white clouds in the distance.

After about 10 seconds, Xuan Yuan asked:
"Okay, I'll ask you now."

"During the time we were silent just now, how many thoughts did you have in your mind? What are they? Did any emotions arise? Or what pictures emerged in your mind?"

Xinia looked stunned:
"Huh? Thoughts? Emotions? Pictures?"

Xuanyuan said:

"For example, when we were silent just now."

"In my mind, there are four thoughts in total."

"The first thought is that your dress is so pretty, the second thought is that I'm making you shy when I look at you like this, the third thought is that the shape of the clouds outside has changed again, and the fourth thought is that it's almost 10 seconds?"

"When I looked sideways at the clouds, I felt a sense of peace and joy in my heart."

"Finally, when I saw a step-shaped white cloud, a picture of me jumping and falling down when I was attacking the Sky Tower dungeon this morning unconsciously appeared in my mind."

Hearing this, Xinia was a little surprised:

"what?"

"Mr. Xuan Yuan, are you so clear?"

"But I was thinking about something in my mind just now, and I didn't notice it at all."

Xuan Yuan smiled and said:

"Being able to know the various thoughts, emotions, and pictures that are happening in your mind is the embodiment of awareness's inner workings. This is also the perspective we mentioned just now."

"For example, the reason why this perspective shifts when you watch a movie is closely related to your attention."

"When you focus on the movie, the perspective will shift with your attention, and you will pay more attention to the changes in the movie, temporarily forgetting reality."

"Therefore, the reason why I can't tell you how many thoughts came to my mind within ten seconds, and what are they?"

"It just means that at that moment your attention was elsewhere."

Xinia quickly nodded her head:
"Yes, I was just looking at Little Paji and the clouds outside."

"Then because you were looking at my skirt and turned your eyes away, I was very concerned about whether the skirt I was wearing today was strange or not very good-looking."

Xuan Yuan nodded:

"Yes, look."

"Actually, you have an almost instinctive understanding of what you were paying attention to and what you were doing just now. These are all manifestations of the role of perspective."

"Even if you were thinking about whether the clothes you are wearing today are strange or not good-looking, it is also part of your involuntary thoughts."

"I'm just being aware of these, so I know clearly."

"At the heart of consciousness is perspective, and perspective is awareness."

"We human beings have been using this awareness day and night without knowing it."

"When we instinctively focus our awareness on something, without conscious training, it is easy to develop a confused sense of identification with the observed object."

Seeing the expression on Xinia's face was a little dazed.

Xuan Yuan further explained:

"For example, in your daily life, have you ever been tortured by a certain thought, emotion, or scene in a particularly painful experience?"

"Have you noticed that whenever negative emotions such as strong anger, anxiety, and panic arise in your consciousness, it is easy to fall into a state of loss of control that cannot be controlled by yourself?"

"When you get out of control, you say and do all kinds of bad things that don't really mean what you're really thinking, and you sabotage your relationships with people, or you screw up something really important."

"Actually, each of us is manipulated by negative emotions and paranoid thoughts to varying degrees."

"Because the emergence of negative emotions is often out of control, it is automatically generated after external stimuli or certain conditions are met, and you cannot interfere with its operation; similarly, the emergence of many negative thoughts is also out of your control.

"But when you identify with them, you are completely manipulated by them."

"From this point of view, normal human beings, mental patients and criminals who commit crimes."

"The only difference between the three is the degree to which they are manipulated by their respective emotions and thoughts."

Xinia was a little surprised:
"Ah? So that's how it is?"

Xuan Yuan smiled:
"When a person is the most angry, will he be so angry that he wants to kill someone, want the other person to disappear forever, or want the other person to have bad luck?"

"When a person is irritated to the extreme by another person, does one develop an aggressive urge to physically disappear or suffer loss?"

"The more grumpy and narrow-minded a person is, the easier it is to have these extreme thoughts uncontrollably in their minds."

"Psychopaths are affected by these thoughts and emotions, and they are so deep that they cannot control themselves. Unlike sinners, the remaining goodness in the hearts of psychopaths is the last line of defense that restrains them from harming others."

"That's why some mental patients impulsively hurt others. After careful communication, it will be found that the mental patient has fallen into a completely imaginary state of being attacked and denied. He is forced to do it out of 'self-preservation'. 'Counterattack'."

"Criminals are completely different. They lack compassion and kindness. They lack kindness as the last line of defense in their hearts. They will completely follow extreme thoughts and emotions to make various destructive actions, thereby hurting others and even committing all kinds of cruel acts without limits. .”

"Actually, in the thoughts and emotions of each of us, there are the same out-of-control reactions of mental illness and criminals. The biggest difference between normal people and them is the degree to which consciousness is controlled by pathological thoughts, emotions and pictures."

"The less controlled the human beings are, the more stable they are and the more resistant they are, the easier it is to recover peace from a huge blow, and the more indifferent they are to face different things. The firm principles that are shaken by the outside world are more open-minded and maintain an optimistic and peaceful attitude towards life."

"On the contrary, it is a marionette manipulated by thoughts and emotional automatic reactions, forever limited by the living environment in which you were born, the environment in which you grew up, and the negative childhood experiences in the process of growing up."

"People of this type often live quite painful and unhappy lives when they become adults. They can't handle many things well, and they are easy to get overwhelmed. They often push themselves into a corner of pain and depression."

"These are all because when they are aware of their thoughts and emotions, they are completely taken away by the turbulent flow of emotions and thoughts. They identify with the thoughts and emotions in their minds and mistakenly think that these emotions and thoughts are their real selves, which leads to Serious problems arose."

Xinia has some emotions:
"Perspective is awareness?"

"Then, as long as you enhance your awareness, you can enhance your ability to be free from the influence and control of emotions, thoughts, and pictures in your mind."

"Learn to be calm and sober in reality, right?"

"Then, perspective or awareness."

"What is the connection between it and the heart?"

(End of this chapter)