Harvesting the mind’s potential

It’s ours to use or lose.

The earth is blessed with an immense amount of land which now supports over 7 billion humans. Assuming each consumes on average three meals a day, that is over 21 billions meals every day that the earth needs to provide. The mind is even more vast than the physical place humans inhabit. In the mind, we consume several thousand thoughts every hour. Billions of people times several thousand thoughts per hour equate to a tremendous amount of mental energy. Farming is now highly efficient and mechanized. Otherwise, we would not be able to feed these many people. Just as we have made agriculture and crop yield a science that ultimately helps feed and keeps the physical body healthy, with the right “farming” methods, we can tap into the infinite collective potential of the human mind.

We use a lot of the mind’s energy to keep ourselves happy. With the right outlook, awareness, and insight we may find that we need very little of the mind’s help to maintain a level of happiness that makes us feel light and healthy at all times. Why is it essential to keep this state of joy that has little to do with the mind?

Everything in existence is interdependent. Humans are no exception. Without first being happy, we cannot help others or contribute to the growth and maintenance of life on earth. How we lead our lives on a day to…