State of Mind!
Wonder how complex the design of our brain is...!
For a moment, one feels let down, tensed, disturbed and concerned!
And in a few hours, he/she feels something absolutely different - say calm, happy and content - even joyous!
Thinking about it... consciously, nothing around him/her has changed.
The landscape is the same, the people around are the same, yes - but the time has
passed by!
But there is a change - change somewhere within - the states of the mind!
Thats it!
What induces this change of states?
Are we really masters of our own at all?
wrt science, it just can't be a few chemical secretions in our brains, that bring about this state of mind?
There has to be more - what, why and how are these chemicals that change our states
triggered?
Does our brain has a mind and life of its own?
or is it just US?
That these changes happening in the brain are too microscopic to be registered
by our brain?
we can see a rat run by, in front of our eyes...
catch a beautiful butterfly, fluttering by its wings - with magnificient colors fly away...
smell the fragrances of a bunch of sweet flowers...
and can reach out to touch 'em soft n gentle, with the tip of our fingers, to feel it...
and listen to the rustles of dried leaves by the tree, and hear to the noises filling the air
all around - a city dwellers' nightmare!
But hey, why is that, we can't feel our own innards?
can't identify the changes, the reactions - of our own body and mind,
EVEN AS WE UNCONCIOUSLY CONTROL 'EM, to be a sane person?
As like any other question, there should lie an answer for this as well...
and i want to find more ...
posted by odysseus @ 8:19 PM
2 Comments:
Some pointers for you and S
Regarding change in moods - it is an established fact that our moods are influenced by hormones, or rather a balance of chemicals (melatonin / serotonin) that act in/on the brain. The secretion of these chemicals is influenced by a wide variety of factors (length of day, daylight, exercise, interaction with people etc.) So mood changes are to a large extent a function of these chemical levels in our body. To the extent that we can control these chemicals' levels in our body we are masters of our moods. :)
Having said that here is a quote that I liked:
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
-Hugh Down
A link to a disorder where patients have swings in mood - bipolar disorder.
Probably all of us have bipolar disease to different levels. :)
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