Have u ever heard people talk of peace, calmness, shanti etc,. words? As in T.S. Eliot's masterpiece poem 'The Waste Land' has this line of repeated words where it proclaims for shanti, shanti, shanti. Have u ever tried to feel at peace and failed continuously? If so then this writing may be helpful to you.
There have emerged two types of human heroes in our civilization. Those who fought with nature to tame it adaptable to human comfort. The others were those who willfully surrendered to it in order to make themselves more adaptable to nature.
The emergence of peace has direct relation with the type of person or personality one owns. Broadly said, those who are satisfied with the way things are they are often at peace with than those who constantly struggle to change the ways.
The feeling of calmness differs from the talk of calm. Usually people are advising each other to keep calm, have patience, be peaceful etc,. But where does the feeling of calm come from? If observed consciously it is seen arising from within like any other feeling.
The definition of feeling of calm may help understand it better. Normally feeling calm would mean to be mentally relaxed and satisfied with one's current state. However, a more sophisticated understanding of feel calm would be an awareness and acknowledgement of one's present state.
Do you ever realize at which portion of time you feel most relaxed and calm in your day? Mostly during sleep if I am not wrong. Why sleep? Actually, we are not even fully aware of the feeling of calm during sleep? It means we feel most calm when there is a least thinking process in our brain.
Various neuroscience studies have shown that the brain uses more than 20% of the total oxygen that we breathe in. Our brain is more alert during the day compared to night. We feel more relaxed during night as our brain consumes maximum oxygen while mostly staying on non-alert mode. It's almost like a mobile phone placed in a charging mode.
Apart from sleep one feels calm from every natural intake and discharge of sensory requirements. For instance, eating, drinking, sitting, doing potty, sexual acts etc,. Of course these feelings of sensory pleasure and satisfaction derived there from are intermittent and in chunks. Only the period of calm during sleep lasts comparatively long.
All said, unconscious feel of calm totally differs from the conscious one. Conscious calm is more soothing, lasting and joyful. Normally, 99 percent of human brains are not trained to feel conscious calmness. The thinking mind is the biggest barrier to conscious calm. A thought process often runs parallel to breathing and our oxygen is continuously drained rendering a constant dualism within us.
If one observes one's thought process and breathing simultaneously, one will instantly realise the fact that conscious breathing and conscious thinking cannot coexist. At least one process must go unconsciously. To my notice, they both go unconscious most of the time. Neither are we consciously breathing not thinking. This creates a boiling pot inside our body.
Peace of mind cannot be realised without properly realising one's breathing and thinking. Thinking being the barrier to peace must give way for peace to emerge. And the feel of calm never pours in, it grows up from within. Efforts of getting calmness with help of mind often go in vain because of the lack of awareness.
A mind without thoughts may be the treasure of peace. A typical peace which flows in and in. More sound and lasting like a full blown flute note. It's not only understood but realised. One literally feels it like any other sensory pleasure.
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