Interpretation of our inner world

We have ideas, we resort to thought when solving a problem that resists us, and we believe that we should resist with strength, even more than we believe we do not possess. How do we interpret all these aspects? What is the difference between idea, thought or belief? Or rather, at what point do we "buy" that thought or belief without criticizing or judging? We are compassionate and empathetic judges of others and insensitive and harsh judges of ourselves. Understanding the unconscious adoption of our thoughts helps us to surface a higher and more important evil. The true revelation of our attitude walked blindly and without blindfolds of objective knowledge to refute it.

External or internal experience.

We discern what we see and interpret from the external world, through a balance between sensation, external experience, which is produced through the senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch and other senses such as thermoreception or getting to feel the cold or heat in our sensitive receptors of the skin.

The idea, as an internal experience, indicates a receptive and neuronal state of the senses. We see a butterfly, but before we see it and affirm that it is a butterfly, our sight had to report the stimulus before it and inform: I see specific characters that trace the figure and shape of a butterfly. So the idea drives the feedback from that sensation to the thought. It is a butterfly".

Qualities of objects.

Sensations and ideas that are returned as images to our brain thanks to the qualities of objects. What characteristics can a book possess? It can be rigid in appearance because of its cover and old because of the yellowish color of its pages. These qualities are primary, they are objective qualities. It is a fact, it cannot be refuted.

Now, the secondary qualities are directed towards the subjective world of the person. It has a strange smell, as if it were a pit, or it has very small pages, I am used to fat books and long pages. We immediately analyze, when we place ourselves in front of a real or imaginary object, the qualities it possesses.

Ideas.

Ideas are contemplated within internal experiences. How is an idea formed? Can you see the screen with your eyes closed right now? No. Because a basic rule for the idea to originate is to take proper ATTENTION. If you are not attentive to the soccer game, you will not be able to know why they whistled "foul". An idea is formed on experience. You know that soccer is a game, that on the field there are 11 players behind a ball. You are watching a game with friends, when suddenly one of them joins in and brings beer. What does the beer symbolize? Another "incentive" to enjoy the evening. These are ideas, mental representations of a concept: soccer or beer.

Thought.

A thought is understood more as the capacity of the human being to "filter" reality according to certain sets of ideas. An idea becomes a thought when it fulfills a function of utility, a need to create or satisfy a demand. If we say: "I think you should change your attitude towards your siblings", it means that the person in question felt an accumulation of ideas and associations of incorrect treatment in the expectation of how a sibling relationship should be and these ideas are formed in a more complex way by the brain into thoughts. These quickly and intuitively analyze the issue and then can analyze it in depth and calmly.

Thought operations.

Thought has several stages and operations. In the above example of the butterfly. You observe a butterfly flying in front of you, you compare its constitution: it is small and has wings. It cannot be a dog, so you classify its species with other winged insects. The butterfly differs in its thin antennae and some in its brightly colored wings. Which leads us, in record time, to integrate the information, analyze it, synthesize it and evaluate it: it has wings, it is small and it flies to me. It is a butterfly. For the experts in the subject, obviously, they will discover more differences, I only intended to establish an overview of the phases in which this cognitive capacity of thinking is divided.

Emotions.

Behavior feeds back on our emotions. In turn, behavior influences feeling. In other words, we are defenders of the animal world, or at least we believe that. We are walking down the street so calmly, and before we know it, animal abuse is in sight! A child mercilessly beats a poor stray dog that was wandering around the area. The parents, next to him, were still chatting, so calmly. The irritation that this act provoked in you evoked that you went to warn the child's parents of such injustice.

Beliefs.

Your irritation and impotence was transformed into a feeling of peace with yourself and your principles, this made you hug the dog and smile. You avoided such senseless barbarism. At this point you affirmed a belief. A belief is assumed consciously or unconsciously. When we feel good about being congruent with our attitude and principles we are manifesting an agreement with a belief. In most cases they are unconscious and negative beliefs in which we have no explanation for our actions and we are mere mortals observing a situation with a passive attitude. In the next video we will discuss this way of interpreting the world.