Psychiatrists are clear on one point. Different chemicals in our brain rise and fall at different times of a day.
The changes in chemicals leads to changes in what we think, how we decide, what we buy etc.
We have thermometers to tell us when temperature in our body rises. But we have no meters as yet to know when and what chemical rises or falls in our brain.
Here, I am not sure. I am just indicating a possible way.
Suppose we ask ourselves, How do I feel at present? What am I thinking?
Some answers will come like these : Not bad, OK, Fine, Good, So So, etc. These answer could, I say possible could, be the indicators of chemical balance in our brain.
This is a suggestion. Some has to make a research and collect data to correlate such answers with levels of chemicals in our brain.
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Critical thinking is a step further. What am I thinking? Why I am thinking so? What should I think so that my mind reaches tranquility?
The answers to these questions, may, I say may, lead to better combinations of chemicals in our brain.
There was one great psychologists called Alfred Adler. He is my No.1 favourite psychologist.
He said just as several rooms and walls are built in our house, there are several rooms and walls built by cells in our brain. This building up activities goes on since our early childhood.
If we bring down such walls or beliefs, the house collapses. It is hard to remove a wall or a belief in mind and to replace it with a new wall or a better belief. Because all walls and beliefs are interconnected with many other walls and beliefs.
He said all these things of changing one's thoughts should be done slowly slowly and gently.
His psychology is known as Individual Psychology.
His methods are not commercially viable. Therefore, we do not easily find psychologists practising his methods. Because of commercialisation of science, we are deprived of a good life science.
Conclusion :-
The point is : If we ask ourselves frequently : How I am feeling at this moment? What am I thinking at this moment? Should I think in some better way?.... these type of thoughts may lead to significant changes in us.
Haresh Raichura
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