Individual uniqueness has always been an exciting concept in my brain and
has never failed to impress me with every instance that I stumble upon. Having
studied the brain exclusively right down to its molecular structure in my
Masters, I strongly believe that even decades devoted to this topic would leave
me with unanswered questions related to the nature of thought, dreams and the
phenomenon of intuition. Movies like Inception didn’t help to resolve the
doubts either! Studying the biology of brain, I found myself treading on the
fine line between Science and God. Nevertheless it was the most mentally
stimulating experience of my life and not to mention…the most rewarding!
At first, I blamed my over-imaginative mind to perceive a person’s
mannerisms and body language as something more than just an outcome of their
surrounding and upbringing. When I found reasons to support this theory, it
made the imaginary albino hamster in my head to run faster on its silver training
wheel. Are characteristics like forceful blinking, nose cringing, humming
without realization, clenching of fists, irregular breathing etc. a result of
muscle twitching and loose nerve ends or does the reasons go beyond the
physicality ?
Usually, the disturbing thoughts, tend to transcend through the body and causes it behave in a certain way probably giving rise to OCD of some sort. And in some cases you just don't have any visible physical...but what does
the person do if the thought doesn't seem to fade away?
Inherently, our bodies are
brilliantly designed to cope with anomalies – physical and mental. In such
cases, the person probably tries to battle/block the repeated urge to succumb mentally
to these thoughts and might bear the scars of this unending battle. Is there an end to this constant mental scarring ? Does this bruise heal ever ? Does it stay the same ? Is there a healing process or do we change the Band-Aid on it all our lives ?
So what are these scarring fears which keep knocking on the doors guarding our insanity ? Death surely is one of the very common ones. Some guess work is needed here but let me take a swing at it nevertheless. Some common ones being loosing our parents, spouse and/or children. Or some very specific to our own physicality, fear of being a cripple, loosing our teeth, sexual abuse. If you think of some yourselves feel free to comment.
For me, I have tried different ways to assuage my fear bug out of which ignoring it and replacing it just got me closer to OCD symptoms. Is there light towards the end of this tunnel - is there healing ?
So what are these scarring fears which keep knocking on the doors guarding our insanity ? Death surely is one of the very common ones. Some guess work is needed here but let me take a swing at it nevertheless. Some common ones being loosing our parents, spouse and/or children. Or some very specific to our own physicality, fear of being a cripple, loosing our teeth, sexual abuse. If you think of some yourselves feel free to comment.
For me, I have tried different ways to assuage my fear bug out of which ignoring it and replacing it just got me closer to OCD symptoms. Is there light towards the end of this tunnel - is there healing ?
