Your Inner Self vs. Your Inner Mind – A Conflict

Hi there!

I’m back again with another food for thought.

Did you all ever wonder that there are conflicts between your inner self and your inner mind?

We’ll, if not, let me take you through this journey with my reasoning.

Inner self is your soul or conscience, while inner mind is your thoughts that run helter-skelter with no pathway towards any destination.

What I explain below will make many of you ruminate. So, shall we begin?

When you mull over something, what does it mean? It means you are in deep thinking.

But when you think, the thoughts will be either black or white, meaning positive or negative respectively, there is no via media to this, or a middle path to the thought.

In life, there can be via medias but in thoughts, no. Someone always has to school us to think in a manner that benefits us first and also doesn’t compromise on what the other is thinking.

That is why, I believe this line of thought – “Never show your weak side to anyone. At times, you may feel very disoriented, lost and misunderstood. But know this, these emotions come to everyone.”

The reasoning for this is as follows –

There is no way anyone would understand what you are going through, as all are busy mulling over something important to them and discovering their paths in their life. This does not mean that they love you less or love themselves more.

It is just their inner demons and the peripheral circumstances that make people the way they are today. Today’s situation may warrant them to behave in a certain way and some other time that situation may make their behaviour change 360 degrees altogether!

So, while the inner demons are trying to take over in your mind or the peripheral circumstances aren’t conducive enough for you to express yourself, then at that time keeping silent is the only way out.

But if these same demons or circumstances bring your morale down to an extent that you can’t control anymore, it is in your and the other’s best interest to vent out your thoughts and emotions rather than keeping it locked within your chest and making it heavy.

I would like to say here that when even a slight silver lining is spotted by you in the midst of many dark clouds, you would want to latch on to it and come out of the harmful situation.

Here, it is pertinent to say that it is not your inner mind taking over, but it is your inner self that is beckoning you to strive!

So, what I have learnt from all this is –

“Have only this last thought in your mind and see where your soul takes you!”