By Messan Bokor
“My mind is corrupted but my heart is still pure.” Joey Bada$$ ft. CJ Fly, Hardknocks
Many who first start practicing the art of meditation hold a misconception about the goal of the practice. They think that the aim of meditation is to enter some kind of state of total relaxation often mislabeled as entering a state of “zen”. While Zen is an important concept that is quite often atrributed to meditation---specifically referring to the harmony of body and consciousness/soul which could develop as a result of the practice---it is not, in of itself, the essence of the practice or what the practice is intended to nurture within the practitioner. Before we break down the practice of meditation and the goals of this practice, however, let us first clarify the context that created the need for the practice. Or in other words, why do we need to practice mindfulness? To understand the need for mindfulness and the practices that cultivate it, we must first understand a fundamental truth regarding the nature of our existence embodied through the forms through which we exist and the world we exist within. To do so, I believe a good analogy, or frame of reference, is analyzing our existence through the lens of computing and networking systems. A popular current topic, AI, is useful for visualizing this analogy. As things stand right now, ai has no “consciousness”, but it does has a brain and body. Meaning it has a networked system of data storage centers, which constitutes its physical body and an underlying foundation of coded systems that manage the data stored within these physical centers and parse this data through logic in order to make decisions—thus operating as a brain within its physical body. This is similar to how the networked system of our brain and body operates. Our body can be looked at as the physical data storage device which records and stores all the data we accumulated through our lived experience and our brain is the underlying foundation of coded logic that not only organizes/classifies this stored information but makes sense of it through its inherent logic. The difference between us and ai, though, is that we have another piece of our existential system which we often term our “spirit”---which refers to the embodiment of our consciousness. This consciousness or rather, the distinction between this consciousness and the rest of your networked system, lies at the heart of the meditative practice and the state of mindfulness it is intended to cultivate. To frame it more clearly, the detachment of your true sense of self, embodied through what we call your consciousness or spirit, from the often defective operation of your mental and bodily system is the core essence of meditation and the mindfulness that can be cultivated through the practice of it.
Essentially what this analogy shows is that our brain operates like a computer that stores information about the world around you that our consciousness/spirit can access. It’s not a perfect computer though---it doesn’t store everything properly and it's constantly deleting and updating files in order to optimize storage. The files we are referring to here are the experiences you record throughout your day-to-day life. These files can be range anywhere from photos files derived from the things you see, audio files derived from the things you say/hear, text files derived from the things you read, or miscellaneous files derived from the things you smell/touch. Our minds can also run software. These are the programs that govern the logic of your mind manifested through things such as thinking patterns, emotional tendencies, and personal beliefs/perspectives. These “mental software programs” are built and downloaded from the files we receive throughout our lifetimes. The problem, central to the challenges we face both mentally and physically, is that some of these files are corrupted files—malware that turn into corrosive software that corrupts our minds and bodies. Our bodies can be looked at the same way. In this case, the body is another computer connected to the central modules of your brain and gut. As a whole, they can be thought of as a networked computer system with the brain and gut being the main processor sharing information and giving instructions out to the entire network of the limbs, organs, and internal systems that make up our bodies. Within the body, the files are the things you ingest and the code you write into it through how you care for it in ways such as routine maintenance, exercise, and sleep. Through this networked computer system analogy, the end-state of mindfulness—or what is commonly characterized as Zen—is the understanding of and perfect synchronicity between the individual systems of your brain, body, and consciousness (your true “sense of self”) which results in a perfect harmony within the networking system that make up who you are. The hurdle to reaching this end-state and the reason why we have to work to cultivate the mindfulness needed to achieve it, is because the networked system that we operate with is a fundamentally corruptible vessel of existence that is easily hacked by the different “files” it comes into contact with.
The Duality Of Human Nature & Experience: Learning To Live With Your Yang
It is inevitable that you will encounter both physically and mentally corrosive forces within your life. These forces can take various forms ranging from life experiences, environmental stimuli, or just simply things that we take in whether consciously like through watching a movie or subconsciously like how children watch and model the behavior of their parents. Some of these influences can be good resulting in a positive effect on your physical or mental state while some can be negative—corroding your bodily functioning or your mental processing in ways you may not even be aware of.
Mentally, these forces, or influences, can be visualized as waves that beat along the shores of your mind—pushing and pulling you with their tides. Some waves can be torrential tsunamis–threatening to drown you as they wash over you, others can be small ripples—barely noticeable as they lap against the shores of your consciousness. Buddhism, specifically the Buddhist practice of mediation as well as the spiritual practice of prayer, is predicated on learning to understand and flow with these waves. The key to this lies in anchoring your sense of self to the shore of who you know yourself to be rather than what your mind may try to portray you as. What the mind is actually portraying through its operation is the cumulative result of all the stimuli and recorded experiences you have taken in throughout your life. We are not our experiences nor does our background dictate who we are. Therefore the waves that our minds produce are not indicative of who we are but rather the mental ocean of experience that we have accumulated throughout our lives. Understanding this truth about our mental system and how it operates gives you a perspective that aids in detaching your sense of self from this ocean. So, rather than wasting the mental energy to wrestle with these thoughts or emotions, you instead start watching the waves as they come and go—noting their nature/strength and trying to understand their origins. What experience was this wave created from? What did I take in that may have influenced this pattern of thinking? This practice of learning to detach from your mental ocean and to instead “watch your waves” is the true essence of the state of mindfulness meditation aims to build while the practice of distilling from this ocean the waves (the thinking patterns, emotions, hopes, and aims) that you wish to nurture within yourself and crystalizing them through an internal conversation is the essence of prayer. The most crucial part to this is separating your sense of self from this mental ocean and the waves it produces because you cannot objectively observe something that you yourself are still a part of. You had no control over the majority of the experiences that are recorded within this ocean. You couldn’t control the way you grew up. You couldn’t control the society you grew up in. And you couldn’t really control the ways through which your mind may have interpreted—or learned to cope with—-the experiences you were forced to go through. To put it simply, stop judging yourself for every thought or emotional tendency that flows through your brain. By holding on to these thoughts or feelings—or by placing too much relevance on/importance to them—you allow yourself to drown within your mental ocean.
This essentially means detaching yourself from your own thoughts though, which is a lot harder than it sounds. We are used to operating based on the belief that every thought that passes through our mind is indicative of us rather than just reflective of the things our mind has recorded. We have lived our entire lives with this belief. To then realize that many of our thoughts are simply our brain parsing through the data we have fed it and linking it to the present stimuli that we are experiencing goes against this conditioned mode of operation. Despite how difficult this shift in perspective may be, however, it is crucial to truly detaching yourself from your brain and body. One realization that can help tremendously with doing this is recognizing the corruptible nature of the overall networked system we live within and live through. We live in an imperfect world, riddled with darkness, disease, and negativity. If we look at the universe itself as a living organism, we can view these imperfections as cancer cells within her body—cells that corrupt and corrode; or, to frame it in the way we have discussed our bodies, viruses within her system. As we grow within this imperfect world, we are constantly exposed to these “viruses'', and just as our body can be corrupted by viruses through the form of disease, our minds can also be corrupted by these viruses resulting in mental diseases which can manifest in a myriad of forms from impulsive or rash thinking patterns to even dark or pessimistic thinking patterns. And just as with our body, these viruses are born and spread from the things we take in.
In his book Amusing Ourselves To Death which analyzes the relationship between the communicative tools we use and the ways through which we share and process information, Neil Postman points out this out through reminding us of a fundamental tenant of philosophy/philosophers—which has been to mentally fortify people against the influences of these mental viruses through “...warnings...[that have] been directed against those consciously formulated ideologies that appeal to the worst tendencies in human nature…”. For example, Hitler’s manifesto—the Mein Kampf—can be considered one of, if not, the most destructive mental virus that humanity has ever encountered. These kinds of mental viruses lurk within many of the things we create and take in—most often done so unconsciously—and can range from overtly destructive to seemingly benign such as overt stereotyping/racial bias to benign oversimplification of complex issues which effectively destroys important nuance. These two types of viruses (physical and mental) can also compound to create even worse effects on our mind and body’s operation like adhd or hormonal imbalances fueling impulsivity and a hyperactive mind. This is one of the biggest reasons why some face greater difficulty in achieving true mindfulness—this fact that we do not operate from a blank slate. Not only are some of us born preloaded with defective mental and physical software that hinder the way we process and operate, but we are also bombarded with harmful software throughout our entire lives whether through the form of harmful physical bacteria that poison our bodies or through harmful mental bacteria that poison our mind. In both nature as well as nurture, we are constantly exposed to corrosive malware that hinder and corrode our physical and mental processes. This can occur through many forms whether its through the experiences we have, the things we take in, the behaviors we observe, or the conditions we are raised in. This underlying nature of our vessels has been at the crux of a lot of the issues we deal with as a species and is something that we have even dedicated entire fields to studying and understanding—the fields of evolutionary biology and genetics. These factors are a large part of the reason why some struggle with stormy and turbulent mental oceans while others have calmer seas. Regardless of the cards you may have been dealt, however, understanding these viruses---and how they play into your physical and mental functioning---is the first step to minimizing their capacity to corrupt your true sense of self and being able to live above them rather than trapped within them.
There exists a concept that captures the duality of these positive and negative forces constantly acting on our physical and mental states. This concept is the Yin and Yang Principle from eastern philosophy which represents the coexistence of light and darkness within various elements of our existence. Whether through the cycles of night and day, or through the journey of joy and pain that life embodies, this duality of light and darkness, of good and bad, of positive and negative can be found everywhere, even down the electrical charges of the atoms and molecules that make up everything around us. This duality also exists within our minds manifested through our patterns of thought or mental processing—specifically positive mental processing and negative mental processing. To better understand this, we can visualize our mind and this concept of duality that exists within it is through the metaphor of mental branches. It is often stated that the neuron pattern of connections within our brain resembles that of the roots of a tree or its branches. Each neural pathway within our brain represents a different branch of embedded information (stored memory) or, to be more accurate, mental processing of experience. These pathways are essentially correlations your mind creates within the various items it has stored within its memory banks. Similar to how generative ai processes a prompt, our mind constantly shifts through these pathway correlations in response to the current stimuli it is receiving from the outside world. This is largely an automatic process and it constantly occurs as we live our lives. The issue is that we are not in full control of the items that our brain stores nor the neural pathways it creates and thus are not in full control of the correlations that are built through these pathways nor the resulting thoughts/feelings that stem from them.
Using this model, we can then start to classify the branches of our mind into two general categories: positive mental processing and negative mental processing. Learning to live with both is the key to mental harmony and is the central lesson encapsulated by the principle of Yin and Yang. In practice, this means choosing to ground yourself within the positive side of your mind while recognizing the existence of the darkness and seeing it for what it is—simply a byproduct of your exposure to the physical and mental viruses that exist within our world. We cannot completely erase this darkness. It will always be a part of us just as the light will. But we can detach our true sense of self from these negative branches by recognizing their origin and minimizing their capacity to take root within our mind. This is also a key lesson about how we should approach life. Life will always have ups and downs. Sometimes the downs happen first, or sometimes, the downs seem to last forever but one should never lose sight of the other side of the coin—the peace and joy that one can attain from life if they endeavor to wade through its suffering. There can never exist a life without either side, accepting that is the first step to being able to conquer anything that life may throw at you.
Once you accept this duality of your mind, the next step is finding a balance between both sides of your mental processing. The key to this lies not in battling the negative branches of your mind—which often manifest themselves through impulsive thoughts and emotions—by trying to suppress them, but in allowing them to freely flow into and out of your brain while recognizing that they are not indicative of who you actually are or who you choose to be. You essentially have to detach the essence of your consciousness from your brain's operation. Or in other words, you have to ground your sense of self within your spirit rather than your body. A good way to visualize this is to look at these mental branches like notifications that pop up on your computer screen. Some notifications are good, and you click on them and dive deeper into them. Other notifications are annoying and distracting so you just simply close/delete them when they pop up. But you are not the phone that the notifications pop up on, you are the person (the consciousness/spirit) using the phone (the body and brain)—shifting through its contents to find the things most useful for you. This is the basis behind the distinction between spirit and body inherent in many spiritual philosophies/practices and this is how you should treat the thoughts and emotions that come into your head when you are developing mindfulness---whether through meditation, prayer, or any other practice. Unlike a computer or phone, however, there is no way to completely silence the notifications that pop up within your brain, nor should you want to. Silencing all notifications would mean that you would be silencing the good with the bad so all the useful, insightful, and healthy notifications that arise as a result of the Yin side of your mental processing would be silenced along with the Yang.
If we continue to expand the analogy of the system of the brain and body as a computer system, we can start to see other parallels between the ways in which they both operate. We already covered the parallels of physical and mental viruses with analysis of disease and harmful ideologies. We also touched on recognizing and managing the junk/spam elements of our mental system through our discussion of yin/yang and positive/negative mental processing. The only other obstacle to true mindfulness that we need to cover in the terms of this analogy is dealing with hackers or, in order words, strengthening the cybersecurity of your mind---otherwise knowwn as mental fortitude. Contrary to what many may be willing to admit about themselves, our brains are extremely susceptible to mental hacking. Whether consciously or unconsciously we are constantly being hacked everyday as we go about our lives. The very nature of the advertisements you see as you surf the web or shop within malls is predicated on hacking your brain through different levers in order to make you think or behave in a certain way. Even the way we talk to one another is sometimes predicated on hacking the other person. This is the very basis behind the skill of persuasive speaking. This also happens passively like through underlying encoded messages placed within the entertainment we consume most—the most prevalent case of this being overly sexualized content that distort beauty standards. It also happens on a societal wide scale through various means including our customs/traditions and the nature/forms of our public discourse. It can even occur through societal constructs that shape the way we think and act such as what our society defines as common practice or “common sense”. Linguistics professor and social critic Noam Chomsky does an amazing job throughout his writings of breaking down how these kinds of constructs are often manufactured and shaped with the intention of influencing behaviors rather than the abstract truths we often mistake them for. Neil Postman, who I mentioned earlier within our discussion, is also a great resource for learning to recognize how the things around us—even the tools we use—can change us mentally and culturally through simply our exposure to or use of them.
In short our brain, and as a result—our body, can be easily hacked or influenced by outside forces. In order to safeguard yourself against these influences, you must ground yourself in the truth of who you know yourself to be, or who you strive to be, and endeavor to recognize and understand the different ways in which your mind falls prey to such influences—which can be achieved through practicing mindfulness and learning to ‘watch the waves’ that stem from your mental ocean. Knowing your own vulnerabilities and recognizing how the different influences you take in affect you is the key to being able to navigate through all the subtle mental hacking we are constantly bombarded with throughout our daily lives—especially within the modern age and the fast approaching future characterized by the increasing integration of technology specifically designed to influence us within our lives.
A good way to visualize how these influences hijack our thinking is through picturing the flow of your thoughts as a “stream of consciousness”---a river created from the tiny little streams of your mental processing derived from your neural pathways. (I know, I apologize for the excessive use of metaphorical imagery but, in my experience, the best way to understand these concepts is through visualizing them). This river or stream ebbs and flows naturally as you process things within your mind. However, there are times when someone or something else interrupts that stream with their own flow. This is like someone pouring dye into a flowing river. Once it gets into the water, the dye will start coloring that water and spreading its influence throughout it as it flows. This is essentially what mental manipulation—whether through overt hijacking like playing mind tricks on someone or through subtle conditioning like the slow distortion of beauty standards by the entertainment we digest—does to our stream of consciousness. Through inserting their own pathways—their own dyes—into our mental river, these kinds of mental manipulation color our thinking in ways that correspond with the nature of the dyes they insert. Two important general categories of dyes that we have to be especially mindful of are optimistic and pessimistic dyes. Optimistic dyes are dyes that promote positive mental processing while pessimistic dyes are those that promote negative mental processing. The key with handling both of these kinds of influences is maintaining a balance between them. The world is not all sunshine and rainbows nor is it all pain and hopelessness. There is a vast gray area between both sides within which our reality exists. Staying grounded in that reality is the key to building a clear and healthy mindset/perspective on life. This balance between both mirrors the discussion we just had regarding the balance of Yin and Yang. While the world can be a harsh place, there is always hope, beauty, and love to be found in things all around you. Never let pessimistic dyes color your stream with fear and depression and never let optimistic dyes color your stream towards lackadaisicalness and naivety. The excess of either side can either blind you from the problems that still exist within our world or blind you from the progress, hope, and love that still persists within it.
A Bit Of Practical Advice
In closing, I’d like to leave you with a couple practical lessons that I picked up in my journey to this perspective that will hopefully aid you in yours. The first lesson is to trust in your heart. I know how cliche this sounds but hear me out. I mentioned at the beginning of our discussion that one of the keys to being able to separate your own consciousness from the background operation of your brain/body—or the waves of your mental ocean—is finding an anchor that grounds you in your true sense of being—meaning who you know yourself to be or who you aspire to be. The cornerstone to this and the anchor that’ll allow you to rise above your mental static is your heart—more specifically, the love, hopes, values, ideals, dreams, and passions that encapsulate the life you wish to live and the person you strive to be (though in this metaphor it would be more like a hot air balloon that allows you to float above your ocean rather than an anchor which is usually intended to weigh you down………….…or maybe I should just stop with the metaphors lol). While I refered to this before as your "spirit", all of this can also be best summed up as your “heart”. This is where your true sense of self lies and where you can build the foundation to achieve the harmony indicative of true mindfulness or Zen. There is a reason why the bible states in Proverbs 4v23:
“Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life.”
The second lesson I want to impart to you concerns the actual practice of meditation or “watching the waves of your mental ocean”. This is a lesson about overcoming the tug and pull of your mental ocean. When you are first learning how to swim, one of the first steps you will have to take is the most fundamental step to actually swimming: getting over your fear of the water. Without conquering that initial fear, the panic and anxiety you feel will almost always consume you and pull you under. The same is true when learning to navigate your mental ocean. The waters of your mental ocean can sometimes be dark, cold, and frightening to navigate. They can hold, beneath their surface, tremendous loneliness, pain, trauma, fear, and anxiety. This is why we often try to throw ourselves into the day to day task of operating the boat we are in (in other words—the activities of our day to day life) rather than taking the reflective time necessary to stare into this ocean and truly get a sense of what lies within its waters. This is also part of the reason why we are so prone to distractions and escapism because without them, the turbulent waters of our ocean threatens to capsize our boat and submerge us within these thoughts/feelings. Though, regardless of how scary, or to be more accurate—overbearing—your ocean may seem, the key to being able to master its tides and overcome its pull on you lies in confronting it head on and learning to understand and accept the thoughts and feelings that it consists of.
The way to do this is through the unfettered exploration of your mental ocean. This step is predicated on releasing all the mental assumptions, judgements, and guards you may have erected to try to control your thoughts and simply watching the way your mind works. This is akin to pulling up your anchor and allowing the ocean to pull your boat in whatever direction it wants to go in. This practice of unfettered exploration allows you to break down that fear you may have of your own thoughts and where they might lead to. It also helps with alleviating that sense of unease, or sometimes boredom, that might develop when you’re doing nothing but thinking. As you explore your ocean through following the pathways of correlations that make up your mind, you start to encounter and confront anxieties and fears that you normally push outside your immediate focus of thought but that still linger in the back of your mind—subtly overlaid over your normal functioning. These fears and anxieties can manifest themselves in many different ways ranging from lingering pain from past trauma or unresolved issues (most often stemming from some grudge or past mistake that needs to be forgiven or let go of) to simply anxiety regarding that work project that you have to turn in by the end of the week. Allowing these thoughts and emotions to rise to the surface and actually focusing on them rather than trying to suppress or push them out is the core of this exploration. Once you are comfortable with this, you can start diving into these branches and examining them in order to understand where they stem from, which is where you can usually find the answer to resolving them. What thoughts linger in your head? What emotions stick with you the longest? What does this tell you about the way your mind processes the experiences it records? Where could this type of inherent processing stem from? The answer to these questions are pivotal in understanding how your mind works and why it works that way. Analyzing and answering these questions grants you the self-awareness necessary to rise above these tendencies and see them for what they actually are—conditioned responses to environmental stimuli based off of prior experiences. This kind of mental exploration and examination is also the key to breaking out of bad habits or habitualized cycles.
The third lesson is one that doesn’t include yourself at all, but instead focuses on others. This lesson is about empathy or “radical empathy”, as I have heard it termed. This is essentially a thought exercise where you place yourself within the shoes of another person and endeavor to understand what it could feel like to “walk a mile in their shoes”. What challenges do they go through day to day? What burdens do they carry with them that may not be obvious through their outward appearance? What kind of life have they lived? Where did they grow up? How could their early environments have shaped who they are today? What would you be like if you shared their life experiences? If you had the power to intervene in their life, what impact or change would you make? What impact is within your power to have on them today? Through understanding the hardship that others navigate through each day and throughout their lives, you start to gain a deep appreciation for the things you do have and the hardships which you were able to avoid because of them. This is essentially using radical empathy to build the gratitude and perspective necessary to rise above the negative experiences we may go through that seem painful to us---but in the light of what someone else is having to deal with or what you could be suffering through instead---becomes less potent and less significant to your mental state and your greater life. To put it another way, recognizing the darkness that others have to deal with allows you to more easily see and appreciate the light that you have within your life which then enables you to more easily cultivate this light within your mental ocean.
The final lesson that I wish to share with you revolves around past trauma and understanding how our past shapes the way we approach future experiences. As I mentioned before, we all start and have to go through our life with a pre-dealt set of cards. The nature and severity of this set of cards ranges drastically and could lead to a lot of internal turmoil especially when you are dealt a set of cards from the worst end of this spectrum. These set of cards can be dealt through various ways such as heredity, the environments you were born/raised in, or the events that shaped your upbringing. And there can exist a vast inequity in the kind of cards you were dealt. Some of us are born with “broken” bodies while others are born with the genes of top-performing athletes. Some of us are raised in safe and stable environments while others have to grow up in environments ravaged by poverty, desperation, violence, and even war. Regardless of how your journey may have started, these cards have a huge effect on how you see yourself and the world as well as how your mental ocean develops as you grow. What I essentially mean here is that these cards shape the way you process and interpret future experiences. This can manifest in both positive or negative ways. For example, growing up within a area plagued by gang-violence could either shape a perspective within you that sees a world or society that is embroiled in such violence as a despicable thing with horrifying consequences that we need to change with all our might so that no one else would have to suffer from it—a perspective that focuses on love and prevention as a response to the trauma of violence. Or it could lead to a perspective about the world that sees the world as a loveless and cutthroat place where you have to learn to fend for yourself in whatever way you can because others are looking to take from you even at the cost of violence—a perspective that focuses on defense and pre-emptive violence as a response to the trauma of violence. Both perspectives are understandable conclusions that can be derived from that set of cards but is that how we should shape the perspectives that we use to approach the future? Essentially, what this lesson covers is the transition from operating based off of the experiences you were forced to go through to detaching entirely from one’s past and starting from a blank state in order to distill the ideal way to approach future experiences. Within the scenario of growing up within an environment plagued by gang-violence that we just looked at, this would mean detaching yourself from the trauma you may have suffered growing up within this environment in order to shape a perspective about the future objectley. If we approach that scenario from this angle, we can transition from being reactionary and seeking to insulate ourselves from ever being on the receiving end of such trauma again to instead asking ourselves that, while yes, the world can be a cutthroat and evil place, is that how it should be? Or is that how we should allow ourselves to become in order to survive in it? Wouldn’t that be an indirect way of enabling it to stay that way? Would becoming cutthroat yourself or fighting fire with fire have prevented that trauma that you were forced to grow up in? Or would it just have incited further violence?
This is essentially a lesson about renewal—learning to let go of the experiences that you may have thought made up who you are and instead latching onto the things that you want to be part of who you choose to be. In order words, this is letting go of the past that you were burdened with in order to hold onto the future that you wish to realize. Central to achieving this is the acceptance of what cannot be changed. This means learning to accept the cards you may have been dealt—no matter how unfair they may be—and instead focusing on what you can turn those cards into or what new cards you can gain/create that could improve your journey.
As A Final Note:
Whether through biblical teaching, spiritual practice, scientific analogy, biological research, Chinese philosophy, or Buddhist practice---the key to achieving true mindfulness requires understanding the underlying corruptible nature of our vessels and accepting the mental/physical static that accompanies our day-to-day functioning. We are not in full control of the things our mind, and sometimes bodies, think or do. Thinking that you are totally in control is trapping yourself within the false conception that everything that flows through your mind is indicative of who you are which leads to judgment and sometimes even self-loathing and depression. You essentially start to lose yourself within your own static. The key to avoiding this is learning to isolate your sense of self from this static which requires learning to see it for what it is and accepting that it will always be a part of you in some way, shape, or form rather than trying to change or suppress it. Once you understand and accept those inseparable aspects of our existence, you can then start to detach your sense of self from them, learn to recognize how they manifest themselves within your thinking, and begin to rise above them in order to find your mental harmony even within a chaotic and tempestuous mental ocean.
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