The Race

Hmmm… the beginning is when I started reading psychology, applying it, testing reactions, testing it on me ..playing with it like a game. I should better compare it with a childhood play with Lego where I tried to fit each piece with the other, to create and mix them all around.

It is amazing how psychology started, evolved and got to be what is at the moment. It is absolutely amazing how all our behaviour is depicted, how we go into each others life and try to correct the wrong block of Legos. Through neuro linguistic programming I have understood many things and the most interesting part is how we create all these pictures in our mind, how easily we get influenced by all the happenings around us..sounds, voice tonality, touches and most of all, visual contact we have. It is like a movie is taking place in our brain and everything is changing, all things are getting more and more alive in our bodies, we are so dependent of our senses and what we receive through them.

So what is basically happening in this psychology…exploring how our conscious reaction is and how is it felt on the outside as well in the inside of us. Also we can clearly see how easy we react to advertising and how all our desires expand when we have contact with products, with something new on the market..basically we act like some robots or our pet when gets a ransom. The only advantage is that we have more options, we can opt for more or less, we can pick the right price, BUT most important is that we have the POWER to say NO. By knowing these psychological details we can attract others to do something, to buy, to consume or to abstain from something. All details of psychology can be used by us or against us or most sad against each other. I don’t deny it, we must understand the use of it, but not in the way it is used on large scale, or at least know how to use it. I suppose that we should all find ways of understanding the psychic, our person, our purpose and be capable to keep the important information and not get influenced by all negative drives. It might be difficult to achieve the balance between good things and what harms you, but it is not impossible and we should all find time to pursuit these, to understand and combine them. Of course we get at a point, when we realise these and we notice that there exists some sort of manipulation in the capitalistic civilisation and I can not deny it.

We are all programmed to respond to what is happening around us and we are being fed what we consume..news, food, junk food, luxuries, cars, properties, money and everything  that can be bought through the income we earn at work. Are these the definition of happiness!? We have power to make the choices we want, but are we really choosing what we want or what we are given and ‘forced’ somehow to desire!? Appears to be a simple question but the answer is in each of us. We are so deeply rooted in the reality that surrounds us and pursuing our desires that we choose a tunnel and we go through it without considering other options.

So, yes, through this science we realised how to control our mind and understand our behaviour. But let’s bear in mind that this is the creation of the modern world, the Western civilisation that started dominating the World and its growth.  So we could easily say that what the Egyptians, Buddhist, Shamans, Aztecs did before our civilisation, took charge of our destinies, are separate explanations of our nature and how we work. We can’t figure out what the Pyramids are doing in the middle of that desert, how they got there and how were they used. We have no clue, some disrespect the cultures of the Buddhists because they are not Christians or we just accept them because this is the trend set by Pepsi :) - RESPECT. We don’t understand it and we don’t want to look in it. Leaving these under a question mark we started building up on the sciences, with the mention that philosophy has been left in an abstract corner, and we look to find out how we work, which is our best way of living, how to cure our disease, how to kill, we play with all these experiments on people….Sometimes it appears to me like some of us, who say are smarter, who see themselves leaders, who have a vision of how the society should work..yes they take charge and they arrange the pieces of the puzzle to match their personality and their desires. Rest of us who like how it sounds and looks we follow a similar school, join the game and it never works…it continuously say ‘fail, try again’. The game is more interesting because science has freedom to do whatever just to find the right ingredients for us to improve the market, economy and wealth!

I somehow see psychology as creating limits, putting them there through its theory not to mention that psychoanalysis is in the same situation…we can’t figure out how to treat a mental disease but with pills...but we can make fotons travel faster than the speed of light.

I respect our scientist and all the discoveries until the present time, but aren’t there other avenues to achieve these!? Have we opened to and accepted the wisdom of the Buddhists, shamans, mystics? Not really, as it can’t be proved scientifically.

Us, the vast majority, we all do what one says, what the trend establishes, but we don’t let ourselves free of all the external facts to see the things from our own perspective. All information gathered at conscious level is from the outside…what outside gives us you just read above.

PS - my love for psychology, but not its use, will always exist because it opened my eyes to understanding the soul.