MINDFULNESS VIDEO SERIES (6): REAL ANSWER TO “AM I THE MIND?”

The next question that we want to consider is “Am I the mind?” This question is arguably even more important than “Am I the body?” because we have a tendency to live in our mind and to identify very closely with the content in our mind. The mind and the emotions arising from the mind can cause us great problems. An out of control mind is the cause of so many mental health issues. We will spend a few videos to better understand the nature of the mind because this will be the foundation to the solution that we would like to share with you.
So the first thing to consider is that the mind is not the brain. The mind is closely connected with the brain, but it is a separate subtle body that I am wearing. There was a well-documented case of a person having a brain surgery and being drugged out. The surgeons were absolutely sure that this person’s brain was not functional during the operation and were having a conversation with each other during the surgery. When the person came back to external awareness after the operation, he was informing the surgeons that he could hear their conversation. The surgeons were astonished as they didn’t consider this possible before. This suggests that the mind can function outside and separate from the brain.
The mind is considered a memory bank where all the experiences are stored that we had with our external senses. Everything that we saw, that we heard, that we tasted, that we smelled and that we touched is recorded in the mind. Sometimes we notice that the mind, without our direction, is playing back an experience from a long time ago. Other times we might be searching the memory bank of our mind to remember something that happened a while ago. The mind travels with the living being from one body to the next. This is why it is possible for a person to have memories from a previous life.