Do We Lose Ourselves Or Find Ourselves
We are living in an age of narcissism where everyone is desperate to be admired and people try to grab attention for some season or other. When anyone suffering om this 'look at me' attitude manages be in the limelight they appear happy, but is this forreal? If they are genuinely appy, why are they intent on seeking approval? A recent study published in the urnal of Social Cognitive and Affective euroscience tries to find an answer to is perplexing question by looking at vo brain regions-medial prefrontal rtex and ventral striatum. While the edical prefrontal cortex is associated ith self-referential thinking, the ventral riatum region is associated with feeling od. It was found that people who are in vewith themselves have poor nnectivity between both regions which eans that although they are obsessed ith themselves, internally they don't feel good and that is why they seek external admiration. Till a certain point, most of us are convinced that the ego ‘is our true Self. But meditation encourages us to go deeper within ourselves and one day we realise that the ego is nothing but an illusion. We are a small portion of the universal consciousness bound in a body. Due to our identification with the body we forget our true nature and develop an ego which is limited, fearful, greedy and narcissistic. All our emotional and psychological problems emanate from this ego and erroneously we try to solve all these difficulties by trying to strengthen our ego. To be happy we must dissolve our ego and meditation is a perfect method to do this. After a rigorous practice of meditation for years, the veil of ignorance lifts and we get in touch with universal consciousness which is our true essence. Satchit ananda is all bliss. Once again, research in neuroscience has confirmed that the positive effects of meditation reported across ages by different spiritual schools are not simply in the mind's eye; there are specific brain changes that accompany meditation. A paper inthe Journal of Social Neuroscience revealed that after practice of meditation there is a significant decrease in signals in areas of the brain close to themidline. These areas include the anterior insular, the left ventral and the anterior cingulate cortex, theright medial pre-frontal cortex, and the bilateral the precuneus. speaking tree In psychological functioning, all these areas show great activity when someone experiences self-referential thought and narcissism. The decrease in signals in these areas indicates that as someone progresses in meditation, 06 their preoccupation with ego and its concerns lessens significantly. It meat hat meditation perhaps downregulates of the brain associated with theego and helps in taking us closer to thabsolute consciousness. Bliss comes in abundance when weare able to dismantle our ego, But our identification with theego is so strongthat despite seeking bliss we keep away from it because we fear that we will lose ourselves. But do we reallylose ourselwor do we find ourselves? The words of mystic Kabir highlight that in this stat there is neither loss nor gain but only absolute consciousness. He writes, "Herat herat he sakhi, rahya Kabir herbund samana samund mein so kat herojai. Herat herat he sakhi, rahya Kabir herai, samund samana bund mein so kaherojai." Intheblissful state of evolvedconsciousness, the dewdrop (individuaconsciousness) falls into the ocean (absolute consciousness) and the oceanfalls into the dewdrop.
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Courtesy: Pulkit Sharma Speaking Tree, Times of India
Do We Lose Ourselves Or Find Ourselves
We are living in an age of narcissism where everyone is desperate to be admired and people try to grab attention for some season or other. When anyone suffering om this 'look at me' attitude manages be in the limelight they appear happy, but is this forreal? If they are genuinely appy, why are they intent on seeking approval? A recent study published in the urnal of Social Cognitive and Affective euroscience tries to find an answer to is perplexing question by looking at vo brain regions-medial prefrontal rtex and ventral striatum. While the edical prefrontal cortex is associated ith self-referential thinking, the ventral riatum region is associated with feeling od. It was found that people who are in vewith themselves have poor nnectivity between both regions which eans that although they are obsessed ith themselves, internally they don't feel good and that is why they seek external admiration. Till a certain point, most of us are convinced that the ego ‘is our true Self. But meditation encourages us to go deeper within ourselves and one day we realise that the ego is nothing but an illusion. We are a small portion of the universal consciousness bound in a body. Due to our identification with the body we forget our true nature and develop an ego which is limited, fearful, greedy and narcissistic. All our emotional and psychological problems emanate from this ego and erroneously we try to solve all these difficulties by trying to strengthen our ego. To be happy we must dissolve our ego and meditation is a perfect method to do this. After a rigorous practice of meditation for years, the veil of ignorance lifts and we get in touch with universal consciousness which is our true essence. Satchit ananda is all bliss. Once again, research in neuroscience has confirmed that the positive effects of meditation reported across ages by different spiritual schools are not simply in the mind's eye; there are specific brain changes that accompany meditation. A paper inthe Journal of Social Neuroscience revealed that after practice of meditation there is a significant decrease in signals in areas of the brain close to themidline. These areas include the anterior insular, the left ventral and the anterior cingulate cortex, theright medial pre-frontal cortex, and the bilateral the precuneus. speaking tree In psychological functioning, all these areas show great activity when someone experiences self-referential thought and narcissism. The decrease in signals in these areas indicates that as someone progresses in meditation, 06 their preoccupation with ego and its concerns lessens significantly. It meat hat meditation perhaps downregulates of the brain associated with theego and helps in taking us closer to thabsolute consciousness. Bliss comes in abundance when weare able to dismantle our ego, But our identification with theego is so strongthat despite seeking bliss we keep away from it because we fear that we will lose ourselves. But do we reallylose ourselwor do we find ourselves? The words of mystic Kabir highlight that in this stat there is neither loss nor gain but only absolute consciousness. He writes, "Herat herat he sakhi, rahya Kabir herbund samana samund mein so kat herojai. Herat herat he sakhi, rahya Kabir herai, samund samana bund mein so kaherojai." Intheblissful state of evolvedconsciousness, the dewdrop (individuaconsciousness) falls into the ocean (absolute consciousness) and the oceanfalls into the dewdrop.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Pulkit Sharma kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Pulkit Sharma Speaking Tree, Times of India