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The healthy, well-balanced mind


The healthy, well-balanced mind has the following characteristics:


1. It is void of all inner anger, hatred, resentment, envy, jealousy, pride (unduly high opinion of one’s self), arrogance, greed, malice, fear, self-doubt, lack of confidence, insecurity, excessive ambition.


[All of these things cause unhealthy type thoughts and create unhealthy alterations of personal outlook and mind. The thoughts that we think have a programming effect on the malleable mind, creating new tacit assumptions and attitudes, which affect future thoughts, outlooks, and feelings. See The Prime Mover that decides "What We Are"


We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. .... What we think, we become.          Buddha


Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.             Marcus Aurelius


If we think angry thoughts we become an angry person. If we think hateful thoughts we become a hateful person. If we think fearful thoughts we become a fearful person. Etc. ].


2. It is confident, relaxed, happy with itself, content with itself.


The mentally disturbed person is aware that he is maladjusted, that something is wrong with him. He doesn’t know what, he feels mixed-up, confused, he is worried about himself. He becomes hung up on his problems, obsessed with his problems. Just the worry about his problem becomes a major contributor to his problem. He becomes self-conscious about being different, about his weaknesses. He becomes lost in a maze and doesn’t know the way out.



Jan 2020



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