Your mind lies to you, this is how the mind works, according to Psychologist and Writer Rosa Domingo.

The mind lies to us and does not allow us to obtain all the information of reality, even altering our senses. The mind is designed to protect us, it wants us to survive, that is why, in addition to its countless functions for the proper functioning and health of our physical body, it also takes care of our sanity and mental health.

The mind is in charge of generating thoughts, according to some experts, it generates between 60,000 and 200,000 a day. Some of these thoughts are of fear, enthusiasm, euphoria, sadness, and all of them have a reason for being and the objective of making us survive. Beyond just generating a thought, the mind can hide facts or elements of reality to protect us.

Psychologist Rosa Domingo cites some examples: Just as a child does not want to see that Santa Claus does not exist, an adult does not want to see that he is going to die. These are realities that are hard for us to face because they make us suffer. Taking into account that the mind lies to us, modifies our senses and our memories, that our memories are not real, but are images constructed and conditioned by the mind itself, and that there are thousands of factors and facts that we are not taking into account because we are not able to perceive them, we will realize that, perhaps reality is not what we think it is.

The mind uses shortcuts to optimize our functioning, it goes the practical way to consume fewer resources, therefore, it emits prejudices. That is to say, if we see a poorly dressed and dirty man, we will surely think without knowing it that he is a beggar, or that he is dangerous and could rob us. This is something natural, the problem is that, with this way of optimizing, it makes us generate predetermined images of the people with whom we relate. That is why we cannot really know anyone, since we relate to images created by the mind, not to the people themselves. In this way, we do not allow people to surprise us, because we do not pay attention to what we do not think they can do. We even condition those people to be the way we expect them to be, which is known as the Pygmalion Effect.

Metaphysics tells us that reality is modified by the one who observes it. Perhaps you are seeing a very nice child (because he likes you and you produce a positive effect on him) and I am seeing a frightened child, because I provoke distrust in him.) We are both observing the same reality, but it is different because we have conditioned it. All these factors make us think and reflect, to look at life with a little more humility and less arrogance when expressing what we believe or think about something, because, in fact, although the mind makes us feel safe and determined to protect us, the truth is that we have no idea.

Be humble, think for yourself and wake up.

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