THE KEY TO YOUR HAPPINESS: YOUR MIND

Your mind essentially serves you in two ways. It is a storage vault for information and past experience, and is also a transmitter for wisdom and common sense. The storage vault, or “computer” part of your brain is used to analyze, compare, relate facts, and make computations. The value of this component is clear: without it, we couldn’t survive. The other part of the brain, the “transmitter” that we each have access to is the part that deals with matter of heart, where computer information is insufficient. It is out transmitter mind, not our computer mind, that is the source of our contentment, joy and wisdom.​

Part of the process of obtaining access to this other part of ourselves is to recognize how necessary and practical it is. How inappropriate it would be to use a computer to solve a marriage or career problem, or to decide how to talk to your teenager about drugs or to your toddler about discipline. Most people wouldn’t use a computer for these personal, heart-felt problems; they require softness and wisdom. Unless we understand and value the “transmitter” part of ourselves (healthy psychological functioning), we have no alternative but to call on the “computer” to deal with our personal issues. New answers don’t come from what you already know in the computer part of your brain. They come from a change of heart, from seeing life differently, from the unknown, quieter part of yourself.