Bring the Noise

Bigger, better, louder, faster, harder, more absorbent, fat free, no added colors or preservatives…
This is what we see on the outside but where did it come from? What is the purpose of these attributes? Would it make much difference if none of these things came to be or if they evolved in another direction?

Example: the last thought through a deer’s mind as it flies through the air after being bounced off the grill of a gas guzzling SUV is probably not that of how shiny the rims are or what nice leather seat covers it has not even the expensive custom paint job on this theoretical death bus. Doesn’t matter in the end. Still would not have mattered if the deer made it across the road, to the deer that is.

Point: anything other than the absolute basic is not necessary for life. This does not suggest give up all possessions and live as a monk in a cave somewhere. I just mean to point out the principle behind this advancement of perception.

This is easy to see anywhere. Almost everything around us today is unnecessary for we as a race to live procreate and die. Of course, this negates our possible intended purpose but that is for another day. I would just like to explain how this view of the world, turned towards the inner self, explains the presence of a lot of avoidable health and social problems.

Look at it like a simple machine. Put stuff in and get stuff out. Fuel-energy-work-action. This is very easy to see in action as it happens right in front of you but the same principle is what drives you to do things. Your mind works in the same manner. This is difficult to visualize because the mind can’t be seen only visualized but the work it does can be seen very easily.

Thoughts seem to be a separate and single entity. But they are subcategorized into many systems that perform different functions. To think: that is a tree is a thought. It defines. If I don’t slow down I’m going to hit that tree identifies a situation that hasn’t happened. I don’t like trees is another type that means something else.

If you assign exterior nomenclature to types of thoughts, it’s scary to see what you do with your mind every day. The label on a can of soup may say that half of the RDA for sodium and a third of the carbs are in that can of soup. You can look at that and know what’s wrong with your blood pressure if you eat five cans of that stuff every day. Your body needs sodium. Your body does not need too much sodium. You cut back on the soup and maybe sprinkle a bit less salt on things that don’t need it anyway and you blood pressure drops a bit. You can see that happen in the real world. Now apply that to the mind and thoughts running in there.

It is absurd to say someone is judgmental as an example. The statement itself is a judgment. Judgment is necessary to get out of bed and not fall on the floor which is good. Judging the person next to you when you get up as a lazy slob is not so good. You can have a low sodium diet or watch your calories and think nothing of it.

However, there’s no easy way to respond if at your next appointment the doctor said you need to cut down on thoughts of how much you don’t like your job to four times a day. You just hit that number and say well that’s enough for today. Sounds silly when you look at it like that. It’s what we do all the time. It’s why we have poor health and a weird economy.

Bigger, better, louder, faster…
We have gotten so wrapped up in the outside that we often forgo the inside. And most of it is from the population outpacing the straight evolution of thought.

Long ago, people were close groups. Hunter gatherer. No need for more. Population grew and the downfall started when we needed specialists. But we did need them to get to where we are. By that, I mean blacksmiths, farmers, merchants, sailors…
This freed people up so that they did not have to know how to do everything in order to survive. They just needed to contribute enough to support the mental and financial economy that started thousands of years ago. This has gotten out of our reach because we don’t even remember what our body’s do. They are designed to be a self contained organism. If not we would not have survived without the FDA to give us the RDA.

Simple example. The human tongue is sensitive to sweet salty bitter sour. Everybody knows that but we seem to have forgotten the purpose. Today the taste buds are abused in a manner far from their purpose. The bitter and sour are meant to warn us of poison. Long ago, we knew not to eat these things by the way they tasted. Today we appease and cater to them to make them pop and feel good.

We do the same thing with our thoughts. There is no need to stop thinking or see everything novel as bad. The mind and the thoughts it creates serve a purpose. That is a much longer explanation for another day.

We are stricken today with obesity in part due to an overweight mind. Problem is there is no RDA of the mind or any way to control it. But there is a way to control it. If you have the power to have “fattening” thoughts then you have the power not to have them. Don’t change everything at once. Just monitor these things for now. Periodically examine a thought and decide if it could be something that might be bad for you the way too much sodium might be. Sensory acuity of the mind is the first stage of stepping onto the path of the naturof3.