Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind

How many times have we chided ourselves for not having spoken different set of words during a given situation?

How many times have we felt lost in search of words, looking at someone who made us feel awestruck?

 

How many times have we felt belittled in a situation but have not retorted back instantly to safeguard our self esteem?

The irony however is that our life is filled with words. We speak, read, write and hear words every minute of our life. Words act as the basis of all our communication yet we feel stupefied during many situations. Why does this happen? If we are so good in speaking (and that’s what we have been doing all throughout our life) what makes us run out of words?

Many of us, in fact, would have not even reacted physically leave alone getting deprived of words. One main reason for this deprivation is the state which our mind experiences during some situations or when we are amidst certain people.

Explaining the unexplained

Our mind is actually a vast dictionary, bigger than the physical one we refer to every now and then. If it starts pouring out all the words, we will become the ‘junk of chaos'. Hence it makes us run out of words sometimes and fills us with mind boggling ones during other times. It all depends on how it deciphers the situation and people around us since its focus is always on our safety levels.

Our mind gets into an alert mode when confronted with unpleasant situations and people. The first set of reactions it triggers in us is to protect us from any possible evil. Later when you are in a safe zone, it realizes that it has skipped some of its principles. This realization makes us experience a different set of feelings.

For instance, say, a stranger confronts us while walking in the road.

¨     Our initial reaction will be ambiguity and fear.

¨     We will try to move away from the person to a safe distance

¨     If the person continues to confront us, we tend to get stressed out and react

¨     We get angry and raise our voice to put him off

¨     If it continues we try to seek the attention of others around

¨    We rarely notice the words this person speaks while in the midst of the    situation

¨     Our only focus is on distancing ourselves from the location and the person

After we are out of the situation, when we explain what happened to our close ones, we express dissatisfaction. We feel bad for not having reacted in a different manner. This dissatisfaction may be caused due to 

¨   Feeling belittled in a public place 

¨   Feeling frustrated that we have shown out our fear in front of total strangers 

¨  Feeling our image has been damaged amidst so many people who were around us

 If you notice, it is you who were in both the situations. However, the way you reacted or responded has been totally different.

Mind is a huge space

Our mind is a huge space omnipotent in nature. We humans use it only in a minuscule manner. It has the capacity to travel to different spheres within a jiffy and return back to the existing state in the same speed. This omnipotent nature of mind makes it understand our deficiencies as humans and keeps us under control most of the times.

This is precisely the reason why we feel highly satisfied or get upset for ‘not having reacted or responded’ during any given circumstances. The protective nature of mind makes us ‘run out of words’ (despite the huge vocabulary we possess) when it experiences discomfort. The same mind makes us ‘over flow with words’ when it is comfortable with our surroundings.

Understand your Mind  

Observing ourselves from a third person perspective will make us understand the reason for our behavior during different situations. This is the first step towards having control over our reactions – both physical and mental. When we become conscious about the state of our own mind, we learn the art of ‘Mind Control’.