Why You Get Triggered so Easily
People get triggered easily because their awareness has travelled to the same area of the mind so often that it has worn a deep groove and filled that area with energy, and energy is magnetic, so it pulls awareness back there with almost no effort.
Dandapani explains his guru's saying, where awareness goes energy flows, using the image of awareness as a glowing ball of light moving through areas of the mind. He compares energy to water in a garden, shows how repeated visits build a groove and a magnetic charge in an area such as anger, and points out that the same mechanism makes some people consistently happy.
What this talk covers
- His guru's saying is that where awareness goes, energy flows.
- Picture yourself as a glowing ball of light floating through the mind, with distinct areas for anger, health, science, food, photography and everything else, and you can control where that light goes.
- Energy behaves like water: whatever you water grows, and a watering can cannot tell the difference between the weeds and the flowers.
- To develop an area of the mind, harness your awareness, take it there, and hold it long enough that enough energy flows to strengthen that area.
- Someone who flares into rage instantly has trained awareness to travel to the angry area repeatedly, wearing a deep groove and depositing energy there, and because energy is magnetic that area becomes a giant magnet that pulls awareness back easily, which is exactly how a consistently happy optimist is built too.
If I took a watering can and I watered a garden bed, would the weeds grow or the flowers grow? Both, right? Because water can't tell the difference.Dandapani
Questions
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Their awareness has gone to the angry area of the mind so many times that it has created a deep groove, and each visit deposits energy there. Energy is magnetic by nature, so that area becomes a magnet that pulls awareness back with very little provocation.
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It is a saying from his guru. Wherever you take your awareness in the mind, energy follows it there, and whatever receives energy grows, in the same way that whatever you water in a garden grows whether it is a flower or a weed.
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Harness your awareness, take it to that area of the mind, and hold it there long enough for enough energy to flow into it. Over time that area strengthens and begins to draw your awareness more easily.
Transcript
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You mentioned something too about energy and you gave a really good visual. For people like me, that's really helpful to be able to kind of wrap my brain around how to focus and channel the energy correctly and where you talked about different parts of the brain and how that sort of lights up that area.
Can you kind of go into that a little bit? Yeah. So, my guru had a beautiful saying and it said, where awareness goes, energy flows. So a simple analogy I always tell people to look at awareness as a glowing ball of light.
So imagine you're a minus of our space and your awareness is a glowing ball of light that's floating through the mind. And you can control where it goes and there's different areas of the mind. There's an angry area of the mind.
There's a healthy area of the mind. There's a science and sex and food and photography. And if your awareness is going to a particular area of the mind, that's where energy is flowing because where awareness goes, energy flows.
And energy is like water. Whatever I water will start to grow, right? So if I took a watering can and I watered a garden bed, would the weeds grow or the flowers grow?
Both, right? Because water can't tell the difference. Energy works the same way. If I put energy to a particular area of my mind, it will start to grow.
So if I want to develop a particular area of the mind, all I need to do is harness my awareness, take it to that area of the mind, and hold it there long enough so there's enough energy going to that area and that area starts to get strengthened. Have you ever met somebody who can get angry so easily?
Like just like that, and they like go into a rage because their awareness is trained to go to the angrier of the mind all the time. And every time awareness goes from here to there, back and forth and back and forth, it creates a path in their mind, right?
Like a long, deep groove that it's so easy for them to go there. And every time awareness goes to the angrier of the mind, where awareness goes, energy it's depositing a little bit of energy there. So after a while that angry area of the mind is so filled with energy and energy is magnetic by nature and that's what starts to draw your awareness
there. And it becomes that angry area of the mind becomes like a giant magnet that can so easily pull awareness to that area of the mind and that's why those people can get so triggered all the time. And different people cultivate different areas of the mind. Some people are happy, They're always happy.
They're always an optimist because that's where their awareness is going. And because awareness goes there, energy flows there, more energy is deposited there. More energy deposited there means more magnetic, which means it pulls awareness there much easier.