Anxiety, exhaustion, depression, False self, beliefs, awareness, awakening

[TruthSoldier]

The reason we have anxieties and depressions is because we have a belief that there is someone thinking that can work through problems and find solitons and design a life. This is the illusion of the self and is the network in the brain that continually chatters and follows you through life. It is an ofshoot of the mind of the animal. An unintended consequece of the animal evolving a thinking task solving mind. However, the ego mind has developed a false sense of self that tries to control everything and causes the animal to waste resources and become depressed or anxious.  The reality is, the animal is the one solving problems with its 140 trillion neurons, and most of what the mind is doing in the default mode network is wasted noise. All that is needed to solve most complex problems in your life is to simply direct awareness to those problems, an authentic non judgemental seeing of ones own actions and thoughts as though he were looking back at himself out through the eyes of another. Awareness. This is what you really are, a loving awareness that is simply along for the ride in this intelligently autonomous animal. Your duty is to guide this animal with awareness through its life. When the egomind sees its uselessness, through awareness, it will begin to drop away leaving behind pure being. 

 

 

 

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