Our thoughts can generate problems and ill health. Most of the drama of life takes place in our minds. Over 90% of all negative thoughts we experience are never realized in real life, meaning we have less than a 10% chance that all the catastrophic situations we’ve painted in our minds will actually happen. In other words, a vast majority of our mental effort is a waste of time. However, if wasting our time was the only issue, we’d be fine. The problem is that our body does not recognize time on an objective level and doesn’t actually distinguish between what is really going on and what’s occurring merely in our minds.
Let’s say you’re an employee at a company where you and your boss don’t get along very well. One morning your boss may complain about your work and criticize your abilities, because you made a mistake. The mistake was minor and easy to fix, which you did immediately. The whole encounter, from the beginning of the story arch to its unfolding, took merely 5 minutes. When your boss branded you incompetent and scolded you – “You messed up again, can’t you be more careful?”– an avalanche of emotional responses was triggered in you, pressing on the weak points of the subconscious. Namely, it brought up all the memories that led us to the idea that we are not good enough, and which originate from our childhood.
Of course, this kind of situation triggers different subconscious patterns in different people. The situation brought all these ideas to the forefront and activated your body when you were criticized. As the body received a signal from the mind that it was time to go into fight or flight mode, you were overwhelmed by hormones and your body turned on all the necessary functions to protect your mind from complete collapse. Of course, you quickly resolved the situation at work and corrected the mistake, but in your mind you keep reliving the event long after it has passed, experiencing an emotional carousel, intertwined with imaginary dialogues with the boss, thinking about what you should’ve said at the moment of your encounter with him, maybe even fantasizing about hitting him or pouring hot coffee in hi slap. Our creativity really knows no bounds. You keep thinking about this event all day. However, the body does not know that you are not really arguing with the boss or pouring hot coffee over him, as thoughts trigger hormonal responses which are the same as if the situation were happening in real life instead of in your mind. Your body tenses up, since it believes it is genuinely confronting your boss, who you’re giving a piece of your mind to, in real time. All the dialogues that take place in your head are the responsibility of the “mental pet”, which you will meet below.
All this self-talk in our minds provokes bodily responses throughout the day or every time we mentally revisit a particular situation. In this way, we produce a huge amount of stress, which in the long run, due to all these bodily responses caused by our own thoughts, can lead to disease. To better understand stress, how it occurs and why it is urgently needed in our lives, I invite you to watch the video below, where I explain exactly why a healthy amount of stress is necessary and when it can becomes destructive.
Psychology often describes our thoughts as a monkey jumping back and forth, swinging from branch to branch, aimlessly and unconnected. This monkey clings to certain ideas and does not let them go – it categorically rejects certain thoughts and persists in its stubbornness. The sole purpose of our monkey mind is to ensure the survival of its owner – you. In this desire to protect the owner, however, our monkey friend often annoys and inhibits us, as his thinking is emotional and not rational. He responds to past experiences and is characterized by paranoid thoughts, as his job is to give a sense of security to its owner. He also quickly forms opinions and judgements about situations and people, based solely on emotions and impressions. He thinks in black and white and does not accept any other shades of interpretation to take place, thus blurring the view of the various options we have in a given situation. Our mental monkey loves sensationalistic and catastrophic thoughts, as it is constantly on the lookout for danger and always thinks of the worst case scenario in any situation. In addition, its thinking is often unreasonable and unwise, and it can really make us look stupid. The mental monkey is quick to judge and condemn without mercy.
Since our mental pet does not have a rational mind, it is important that we take good care of it – this will cause us less mental suffering. Relying on past experiences and always conjuring up worst-case scenarios is so draining and unproductive, it is important to erase negative ideas and patterns from the past that no longer benefit us and replace them with new, positive beliefs that will instead serve us. This will calm down our monkey brain, as it will not be able to rely on familiar self-destructive thought patterns or think of disasterous scenarios. The easiest way to get to our deeply-ingrained thought patterns is through hypnosis, because it enables us to discover the deeply rooted ideas and patterns that have emerged from our past experiences. The more of these patterns we carry around in our day-to-day lives, the more restless our monkey friend is.
As a starting point, it is a great idea to give our monkey mental pet a name we like and make friends with it. This will make it easier for us to live in perfect harmony together. In the wise words of Professor Steve Peters: “If we could all tame our mental chimpanzees, our world would be completely different.”
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