Dear Adrian Gallardo:

Maybe I can help you understand better what is in the power of your thinking and what is not.

The tension in your lower jaw, grinding your teeth, let’s say. That just happens, doesn’t it. You don’t want it to happen. So you focus on your jaws, thinking: if “all the power you possess lies within, that it’s all in (my) mind” (the first sentence in your thread), then why can’t I control my jaw, command it to relax?

Is that your thinking?

If it is, then this is my input: animals don’t think like we do. They don’t have the language that we have and they don’t observe themselves. They don’t have the ability to look at themselves and wonder why this or that happens and if they can control themselves. Everything they do is guided by instincts they are born with and/ or emotions. They feel hungry-> they look for food. They feel angry-> they fight. They feel scared-> they run. And so forth. They don’t THINK: What SHOULD I do now. They FEEL-> they DO.

As humans, we still are animals. So a lot of what we do is guided by the instincts we are born with and by emotions. The fact that we have an additional part of the brain that thinks, does not cancel the parts of the brain directing us by instinct and emotion.

Your jaws and eyes behave according to instinct and emotions, and are not subject to your thinking. You can temporarily focus and guide them to behave a certain way by your thinking, but it is not possible to always focus on your jaws and eyes, so as you lose focus, your jaws and eyes are back to be guided by instinct and emotion.

Is this helpful to you? Let me know.

anita