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Habits That Hurt Your Mental Health

Watch this video as Thom breaks down the two main habits that hurt one’s mental health. Unlike other discussions, Thom’s insights take us right to the root of all challenges - the dumbing down of our full potential. Subscribe to find greater ease and bliss: https://www.youtube.com/thomknoles?su... Interested in learning how the Vedic Meditation can enhance your feelings of joy and well-being? Visit https://thomknoles.com/​ to learn more.   / thethomknoles​   There are problematic habits that affect negatively one's mental health. And the first two that come to mind are a misassessment of one's full potential. Having an idea of limited capability. The second is related to that, but it has to do with having one's identity forged and formed merely by the outside world, reflecting back to you what the outside world thinks of you. Taking too much regard of the outside world as your source of identity. What am I? I am, whatever it is people think I am. We produce a hundred thousand thoughts a day. And those hundred thousand thoughts are all streams of energy and intelligence that are coming from somewhere. Deep inside of you, there's an infinite reservoir of creative intelligence that uses that brain of yours to express itself as the solution to what other people consider to be problems in the outside world. Why would we feel a limited capability? Well, based on experience. "I experienced that," one might say, "Demands are made on me, and I only have a certain amount of energy, staying power. I only have a certain amount of creativity. And so with these limitations on my creativity, my intelligence, my staying power, it's evident that my capability is limited. And therefore, whatever I have to offer, either in aid of myself or in aid of others, is very limited." What a depressing thought. And why are these limitations one's regular experience? It's because of the insidious way in which stress, accumulating day by day, in the physiology, has made our brain go into a kind of chronic brain failure. The brain failure is being caused by over-accumulation of distorted information that accompanied all of the overloads of experience we've had in the past. So how do we break the habit of having a sense of limited capability? Through actually having a direct experience that my capability is not as limited as once it had been. So, the next area is the area of gaining one's identity solely from reflections back to oneself from the outside world. "What am I?" Not just, "Who am I," but "What am I? I am an experiencer. I find myself in a body, and when I think for a moment, I exist, and there's a world existing around me. What is it that has gone into, what is it that's the basis of me being a knower, an experiencer. And, what am I? What is my value? What is my worth? What's my identity?" We spent a lifetime trying to answer that question by looking at the way that the world reflects back to us its own state of consciousness, different states of consciousness reflecting back to us the answer to the question. Someone's in a good mood, and they reflect back to you a smile and some happiness. They're simply reporting on their own consciousness state, but, we think, "Well, that person likes me, I must be okay." Our receptor for identity is aimed outward at all times. This is what I look like. This is what I sound like. Different people think different things about me, and all of that. And I'm forming a self opinion about what I am, the value of my existence. Based upon only exterior things. And these exterior things are changing all the time. That means my own sense of identity, my own sense of value, my own sense of worth, also is changing all the time. If change is the baseline from which I'm deriving my identity, then my own self, my own value, my own identity as a human being, is based on nothing but change. And for me to be nothing but the shifting sands of identity inside, is a very, very taxing experience. When we practice Vedic Meditation, we transcend this habit of having only the outer. Because we take our sensory apparatus inwards during Vedic Meditation, and we experience the deep, vast, Unboundedness of full potential. And every day that keeps getting added back, and added back, and added back. I am not simply, however many "likes" I got on Facebook, or however many "likes" I got on Instagram. Or, I'm not simply a certain shape that I've seen in the shop window as I walked past. I am this Unboundedness inside. This Unboundedness is beginning to assert itself as my true, non-changing, inner identity. And, its character is pure, Supreme bliss. It loves Itself inside. And so I have a baseline of happiness. I have this identity inside that is non-changing. This breaks the habit of solely looking to the outside for some sense of verification and validation of the value of the Self. #thomknoles #vedicworldview #vedicmeditation