Close your eyes and become the strongest adventurer

Xuan Yuan nodded:

"right."

“The core mystery of consciousness lies in this perspective.”

“Have you ever had the experience of being suddenly startled while watching a horror movie?”

Xenia nodded.

"When watching horror movies, the brain is tricked by the visual images."

"The quality of a horror movie is very good. When you are completely immersed in the plot and focused too much, your perspective will be temporarily transferred from yourself to the movie without realizing it."

"At this time, a sense of substitution arises, and you will unconsciously create an illusion, mistakenly believing that a character in the movie is yourself, and then forget the reality of sitting in the theater at this time."

"Under the influence of the sense of substitution, you naturally have the tendency and instinct of self-preservation."

"When the character encounters a sudden attack or accident, it will startle you, as if you have also encountered a scary scene, or you are also being attacked."

“If there is no story plot and sense of immersion, even if these scary clips are directly intercepted and shown to you, although you may be frightened by the pictures, you will never have such a strong sense of crisis, nor will you still have lingering fears long after watching it. ”

“This is a very typical perspective shift phenomenon in life, but it’s not very deep.”

Xenia thought:

"So, what exactly is this perspective?"

Xuan Yuan smiled:

"This perspective is what people usually call awareness."

"To give you a first-hand experience of the role of awareness, let's do an experiment."

"From now on, neither of us will speak and remain silent until I speak."

Xenia nodded:

"good."

Xuan Yuan and Xiniya fell into silence.

Xuan Yuan first looked at the small skirt Xenia was wearing for a while. Seeing that Xenia was a little shy, he silently turned his head to look at the white clouds in the distance.

After about 10 seconds, Xuan Yuan asked:

"Okay, let me ask you now."

"When we were silent just now, how many thoughts occurred in your mind? What were they? Did any emotions arise? Or what pictures emerged in your mind?"

Xenia looked stunned:

"Huh? Thoughts? Emotions? Pictures?"

Xuan Yuan said:

"For example, when we were silent just now."

"A total of four thoughts came to my mind."

"The first thought is that your skirt looks really nice. The second thought is that I am making you shy by looking at you like this. The third thought is that the shape of the clouds outside has changed again. The fourth thought is that it is almost 10 Seconds?"

"When I looked at the clouds, I felt a sense of peace and joy in my heart."

"Finally, when I saw a staircase-shaped white cloud, the image of me jumping through the air and falling down came to my mind unconsciously this morning when I was conquering the Sky Tower dungeon."

Hearing this, Xenia was a little surprised:

"ah?"

"Xuanyuan-Jun, are you actually so clear about this?"

"But I was thinking about something just now, and I didn't notice it at all."

Xuan Yuan smiled and said:

"Being aware of the various thoughts, emotions and pictures that are occurring in your mind is a reflection of the inner workings of awareness. This is also the perspective we just mentioned."

"For example, the reason why this perspective shifts when you watch a movie is closely related to your attention."

"When you focus on the movie, this perspective will shift with your attention, and you will pay more attention to the changes in the movie, temporarily forgetting reality."

"Therefore, why can't I say how many thoughts came to my mind in ten seconds like me? What are they?"

"It just means that your attention was elsewhere at that moment."

Xenia nodded quickly:

"Yes, I was just looking at Xiao Paji and the clouds outside."

"And because you were looking at my dress and then looking away, I was very concerned about whether the dress I wore today was strange or not particularly good-looking."

Xuan Yuan nodded:

"Yes, look."

"Actually, you had an almost instinctive knowledge of what you were paying attention to and what you were doing. These are all manifestations of the role of perspective."

"Even if you were thinking just now, whether the clothes you wore today are weird or not good-looking, these are also some of the thoughts that arise in your mind involuntarily."

"I just stay aware of these and know them clearly."

“The core of consciousness is perspective, and perspective is awareness.”

"We humans have been using this awareness day and night without realizing it."

“When we instinctively focus our awareness on something, without conscious training, it is easy to develop a confused sense of identification with the observed object.”

Seeing that Xenia's face looked a little confused.

Xuan Yuan further explained:

"For example, in your daily life, have you ever had a particularly painful experience of being tortured by a certain thought, emotion, or scene?"

"Have you ever found that whenever you have strong anger, anxiety, panic and other negative emotions in your consciousness, you can easily fall into an uncontrollable state?"

“When you lose control, you say and do all kinds of terrible things that don’t reflect your true thoughts, thereby damaging your relationships with others or completely screwing up something very important.”

"In fact, each of us is manipulated by negative emotions and paranoid thoughts to varying degrees."

"Because the emergence of negative emotions is often out of control. It is generated automatically after being stimulated by the outside world or meeting certain conditions. You cannot interfere with its operation. Similarly, the emergence of many negative thoughts is also out of your control.

"But when you identify with them, you become completely manipulated by them."

"From this perspective, normal humans, mentally ill people and criminals who commit criminal acts."

"The only difference between the three is the degree to which they are manipulated by their respective emotions and thoughts."

Xenia was a little surprised:

"Ah? Is that so?"

Xuan Yuan smiled:

"When a person is the most angry, will he be so angry that he wants to kill someone, wants the other person to disappear forever, or wants to make the other person miserable?"

"When a person is irritated to the extreme by another person, will he have an aggressive impulse to try to make the other person physically disappear or suffer losses?"

"The more grumpy and narrow-minded a person is, the more likely they are to have these extreme thoughts in their mind uncontrollably."

"Mental patients are affected by these thoughts and emotions, and they are so deep that they cannot control themselves. Unlike sinners, the remaining kindness in the hearts of mentally ill people is the last line of defense that restrains them from harming others."

"This is why some mentally ill patients impulsively harm others. After careful communication, it will be discovered that the mentally ill patient has fallen into a completely imaginary state of being attacked and denied. He is forced to act out of 'self-protection' 'Fight back'."

"Criminals are completely different. They lack compassion and kindness, and lack kindness as the last line of defense in their hearts. They will completely follow their extreme thoughts and emotions to take all kinds of destructive actions, thereby harming others and even committing all kinds of cruelty without any limit. ”

"In fact, in the thoughts and emotions of each of us, there are the same out-of-control reactions of mental illness and criminals. The biggest difference between normal people and them is the degree to which consciousness is controlled by pathological thoughts, emotions and pictures."

"The less controlled the human beings are, and can even be separated from the identification of thoughts and emotions, the more stable their emotions are and the more they can withstand stress, the easier it is to recover from huge blows, and the more unsatisfactory they are when facing different things. His firm principles are shaken by the outside world, but he is more open-minded and maintains an optimistic and peaceful attitude towards life. "

"On the contrary, you are a marionette manipulated by automatic reactions of thoughts and emotions, forever limited by the living environment in which you were born, the environment in which you grew up, and the negative childhood experiences you had during your upbringing."

"This type of people often live a very painful and unhappy life as adults. They cannot handle many things well and are easily distracted. They often get into trouble and push themselves into blind corners of pain and depression."

“These are all because when they are aware of their thoughts and emotions, they are completely carried away by the turbulent flow of emotions and thoughts. They identify with the thoughts and emotions in their minds and mistakenly believe that these emotions and thoughts are their real selves, which leads to All kinds of serious problems arise.”

Xenia felt a little emotional:

“Perspective is awareness?”

"Then, as long as you enhance your awareness, you can enhance your ability to not be affected and controlled by emotions, thoughts and pictures in your mind."

"Learn to stay calm and clear in reality, right?"

"So, perspective or awareness."

"What's the connection between it and the heart?"