How Well do You Protect Your Mind?



Can you imagine being put in the driving seat of a car with the engine running and being expected to get it from A to B safely when you've never driven a car before, when you don't know how the brakes work or the gears - you don't even have the spacial awareness yet to steer it through gaps without bumping into passing objects?

That's what happens to us with our minds. Our mind is the tool we use for reasoning, thinking, and making decisions as we pass through life, but nobody teaches us how to use it, how to keep it safe, how to stop it becoming overloaded and suffering from stress and anxiety. Most of us are completely unaware of how to use our minds as a platform to reach to higher understandings,  to cultivate inner awareness and see the bigger picture, the spiritual reality of our life and the lives of those around us.

Ayurveda teaches us that not only are we operating through the mind, but that there are different levels within our mind, and that by developing a basic understanding of them we can learn how to protect ourselves from picking up impressions that will bother us in our dreams and quiet moments or even in our day to day lives while we're trying to get things done and suddenly we feel overwhelmed with anxiety.

Listen to the full podcast here and discover Ayurveda's advice on protecting your mind:

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