The Use of Mind Energy

The mind's energy is used up in a limited, balanced and organized manner during the process of normal thinking and normal working. During mental excitement, the loss of mind's energy increases very muck. During such mental states as suffering from fear, worry sadness, dejection etc man feels lost whereas during anger, impulse, sexual urge and eagemess, man feels excited. In either case, mental stability is disturbed. Whether ebb or tide, the proportion of upheaval in the sea is the same. The emotion produced in the mind due to an overdose of dejection or happiness makes it impossible to think rationally or come to proper conclusion because a tired man thinks despairing thoughts of loss and an intoxicated or overconfident man tends to make tall claims.

Body and mind are inter-related. When the mind is happy, the body is active and if gries or sorrow fills the mind, the body not only becomes lethargic but the work is spoiled because of half-hearted effort and result will be more expensive than loss. Mood is another name to describe the mind's condition. If the mood is favorable, the man will be immersed in activity and when the mood is unfavorable, then man will feel that work has become a burden.

The mind carries out some activities on its own whereas it has to take the help of other organs for some other activities. Thinking, cogitation, meditation, imagination, planning, mental conclusion, decision etc are carried on independently by the mind whereas activities such as moving around, eating, drinking, seeing, hearing and speaking have to be carried out by the mind with the help of organs.

Mental slavery is a very bad type of dependence. Slaves at least get the time for eating and sleeping, but the slave of mind is never at the rest. Leave alone doing anything independently, they are not able even to think. The basic reason for progress is the mind.  Usually circumstances are given the credit or blame, but it is only a shameful excuse. If circumstances are the reason, then most - if not all people in the same circumstances would have adopted the same, favorable means or path, but it does not really happen. What we really find is that people living in the best of circumstances, with all the facilities at their command, carry out the worst types of deeds. As against that, many people living in extreme adversities and living in a state of scarcity are able to maintain their morality and goodness.

Only man is born crying and goes on complaining throughout the life till death. All the other animals do not have any problems or complaints, but man possesses the abilities of thinking and feeling and therefore gets influenced by the smallest matter or event and expresses his reaction. Most or the reactions are expressed as unfavorable rather than favorable.

Some people are unhappy because of the scarcity of materials facilities whereas some are unhappy because of lack mental peace. These problems have been more complicated in the present times. Development or progresses have brought many problems created by today's mechanical civilization, the fore most mental tension.

Our aim should be to lead a life free from worry, but for this we should neither be impatient nor be perturbed. One should try to reach one's target by climbing one step at a time. To observe oneself from the bodily discomforts due to tension, everyone must have faith. Some people may find it difficult to believe in God's existence, but one can at least have faith in one's own self, if not anything else.

People without mental strength appear to have a suppressed nature. They are not able to tell an ordinary and true tale to anyone. They are always afraid to open their mouth with the fear that the person listening to them will misunderstand or will not be pleased or will snub him. In reality, nothing much is lost if this happens, but a person without mental strength is so much afraid and suppressed that he does not pick up the courage to tell his story to anyone properly even though he may communicate such a person feels shy to talk, so there exists the possibility of misunderstanding. There is also the possibility that the listener may do something undesirable, unexpected and harmful because of such misunderstanding.

Why people suffer from lack of mental strength or shyness or inferiority is worth thinking about. Psychiatrists give many reasons for that. According to them, lack of love and attention from parents, neglect by parents and relatives and constantly being put in a ridiculous situation are some of the reasons which create such situations that the children become the victims of the severe handicap of inferiority. Ill, handicapped, retarded and frail children frequently receive scolding. As a result they develop the belief that their situation is pitiable compared to others - that they are just unlucky. Similarly people belonging to the backward classes mostly consider themselves inferior to other and tend to keep their thinking level also low and inferior.

Men devoid of self-confidence and suffering from inferiority compels do not have the strength to cultivate daring and patience. Therefore they adopt rude behavior for attracting people's attention and sometimes also adopt criminal ways. It takes courage to be rude and commit a crime and hence when they find quick achievement possible by this approach, people suffering from inferiority, search for the company of such criminals for friendship. After joining such vagabonds, they develop the courage for committing crimes and by indulging in intimidation, feel glorified.

A person with inferiority complex suffers from the illusion of neglect, contempt and inferiority. He pampers this illusion which impels him to attract others by dressing flashily. The attraction of other people's attention acts as a balm for his inferior feelings. Most persons who dress flashily consider themselves inferior and neglected or rejected by the society. Even though they make tall claims and indulge in false and self-satisfaction, concealed deep in their mind is the suppressed feeling of inferiority.