DAVID & YVONNE BRITTAIN
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Release from torment.
It’s strange how the way people choose to think affects their way of life. We impatiently and dangerously drive our vehicles nose to tail and regard slower vehicles and red traffic lights as frustrating barriers. Why is this? It is because our minds are already ahead of us at our intended destinations. Just a slight adjustment in our thinking, a conscious return of mind to ‘now’ and we may choose to regard a red traffic light as a welcome break from the ongoing strain of concentration. Similarly the beauty of driving below the speed limit is that you always have a safe and increasing distance between your vehicle and the vehicles that rush to overtake everyone on the road.
There are many examples of convoluted thinking and the misery caused by such thinking. We may live surrounded by expensive ‘stuff’ in a house, that we leave empty all day, whilst we drive to work in an auto we are still paying for, to enable us to pay the mortgage on the house and to buy on credit more ‘essential’ expensive stuff with which to surround ourselves. Why, because from childhood onwards our beloved elders teach us that this nerve-wracking rat race is the normal and only acceptable lifestyle. Again a little clear thought would reveal our confusion over what we know we really need as opposed to what we think, or are mind conditioned to think, we desire.
Each of us looks outwards at, and interacts with, a world that completely surrounds us. Each of us is the absolute centre, or focal point, of that world of events, situations, and other people. We look outwards from the centre of a series of concentric circles. The largest of these circles contains a world population most of whom we will never meet. Inside that circle the next largest contains people we know of, acquaintances, and friends of friends. Inside this circle is a smaller circle that contains beloved family and trusted friends and everything that we care about. Inside this circle each of us exists in the innermost circle and this contains our hopes and dreams, our secret and private thoughts, our hidden fears, fantasies, and doubts, and our true nature. Although at all times each of us exists in our innermost circle we seldom if ever choose to explore its contents, instead we look outwards. As a result of this avoidance, convoluted thinking becomes deeply embedded very early in the life of a person, as if each of us exists with a complete stranger.
For example a young boy is innocent and happy with his boyhood pursuits and mostly his curiosity is focused on the world around him, until the natural onset of puberty. Now within his solitary circle a new, strange, and secret world of physical sensations reveals itself to the boy. Only later does the boy realize that all male children around his age experience this physical change. Sexual gratification now becomes an integral aspect of his innermost circle, his private world, from which the boy regards the world around him. The boy enters his teen years and from now onwards his thoughts will be clouded and influenced to a greater or lesser extent by being physically attracted and possibly distracted by the opposite sex.
Intellectually he may realize that the sexual urge simply exists to ensure the continuation of the human species, but the outlook he is conditioned to adopt by his familiar world leads him to also closely associate the enjoyment of sexual gratification with manliness. Thus if he is not virile he is not a real man, and the main reproductive reason for sexual gratification fades into the background of his consciousness. This same adopted outlook may remain throughout adulthood and during many years of marriage. All of this takes place in the private world in which each male exists, virility and ego become intertwined. This is why to avoid bruising the male ego of her beloved husband or partner the female may caringly lie about her personal enjoyment, or lack of it, gained from coupling with him.
Now we return to our convoluted thinking theme. The years and decades pass. In a natural way the human female reproductive period of life reaches its end, and the metabolism of the human male ensures the natural onset of the reverse of puberty. The urge for physical sexual gratification fades leaving only the cerebral urge generated by the male ego. What was isn’t anymore, and often for the human male this represents a mid-life crisis that only clear thinking can guide him through.
Earlier in this article we offered examples of clear thinking as it applies to driving an automobile. In a similar way men could consciously choose to apply clear thinking to the natural changes that occur in their bodies. Clear thinking brings the realization to a man that a heavy yoke has been lifted from his body, and also the recollection that earlier in his life there was a carefree time when he didn’t wear that yoke. Just like, as before the onset of puberty he is at last free to be himself, he no longer needs to pursue an ego-generated self-image of virility and manliness. At last he is free to explore his inner world and to learn to love and understand what he finds in there. The stranger with whom he has always existed at last has a chance to become his greatest friend.
Love and Laughter
From
David and Yvonne Brittain.