Your mentality or mind is defined by two types of mental processes.
You act on your feelings, hunches, inklings, intuitions, unreasoned thoughts, spur of the moment impressions and casual observations; and cerebral processes that resort to careful reasoning and classified observation. You also formulate words and sentences when expressing your thoughts and ideas.
Feeling is your first language – you learned to feel long before you learned to think – and how you feel defines your life story.
You’re likely to call your thought and feeling world your mind, but it’s precisely identified as your mentality. And your mentality is primarily defined by feelings that stream in from the domestic thought-cell group in your not-conscious soul-mind. You look to the Moon in your birth chart to learn about your mentality.
When you were born you were a bundle of feelings and your home and family provided the setting for their development. Back then you were passive, receptive and dependent and you responded to the circumstances you encountered with feelings. They provided you with a first-person perspective on what was going on. You’re still doing it today. There’s no need to put your thinking cap on. You rely on your feelings and casual observations to navigate your routine daily life. It’s just your Moon thought-cells doing their thing.
These early life experiences, involving your parents, care-givers and home-life, were all-powerful. They were your teachers. First experiences commenced your life-education; they commenced the development of your mentality.
Your initial feeling responses embodied feelings of pleasure or pain and they keep returning whenever the same or a similar experience occurs. Only you know what happens.
The thousands of feeling snapshots you took as a child are captured and permanently saved in the domestic thought-cell group in your not-conscious soul-mind. So, your childhood is permanently stamped on your mind in feelings that define your mentality.
Throughout your teenage years first experiences continued the development of your mentality. That’s when the feeling side of your mentality was in total control. Your reactions and responses to what occurred were defined by feelings. Only you know how well you managed your feelings – especially those concerning yourself.
Your feeling life is now a habit and today you act on the strongest feelings you felt as a child – most of the time.
Your feelings nag you and goad you into action. They define how you live your life. They’re often the blocks on which you form opinions and make decisions. Your habitual everyday thinking is symbolic of your feelings. It keeps the show on the road.
Your feelings come and go and only you know how you feel in a particular situation or place. Your feeling-impressions keep you informed. You might call them gut instincts.
Your daily-life has you spontaneously responding to incidents that stir up feelings; and your rational consciousness is away on leave. So, your initial response is usually irrational. It’s just your mentality doing its thing.
When you meet a person for the first time your feeling antenna activates. When you don’t have enough time to think things through you go by how you feel. But your feelings and first impressions can be very unreliable. They can get you into a terrible mess.
The feelings that describe your personal reality can be pleasant and constructive or unpleasant and destructive. The intuitions and beliefs that guide your life can be right or wrong. So, your mental life can be heaven or hell.
Your post-event assessment of an incidental daily-life happening is just you applying language to your initial feeling response. The intellectual thought-cell group in your not-conscious mind (Mercury) transforms the feelings you felt into the language you use.
An intense feeling that lasts for 3 or 4 days becomes a mood and you see your life through your moods. They can be light or dark. They color your perceptions; and your fickle moods have you seeking novelty and change.
Your mentality
Your mentality embodies feelings, impressions, unreasoned beliefs and values that were drummed into you as a child. Only you know what happened.
Your feelings, hunches, intuitions, spontaneous impressions and fantasy thoughts – your mentality – play the lead role in your life story. You do a lot of feeling. If you’re a gambler your livelihood depends upon your hunches.
Feelings define your mentality. It’s been formed and developed by pleasant and unpleasant experiences. Your habitual feeling response to this, that and the other is something you do without thinking; and the Moon in your birth chart is the data-point for information pertaining to your mentality.
Your mentality is a mental legacy of your childhood and when disagreeable, painful feelings associated with unfortunate childhood experience invade your mentality they’re letting you know that misguided learning needs mending.
Your mentality was formed and developed before you learned to reason and think critically; and only you know the dominant feelings that define your feeling world. But there’s a good chance that you don’t give your feelings much careful thought.
Your mentality or mind is defined by powerful feelings that can be pleasant or unpleasant. It can be energized and inspired or lethargic and lazy. When your feelings drift, you drift too. You may even find the routine, hum-drum of your daily life boring.
Boredom is a mental state of tedium, apathy and disinterest. There’s an absence of mental energy, external stimulus and excitement: your feelings and thoughts just idle along. You’re lacking a strong sense of purpose. It indicates you need a mental activity to sink your feelings into.
Without conquest, adventure and accomplishment your life is inclined to be boring and meaningless. Adventure and excitement antidote disinterest, pettiness, back-biting, gossip and triviality. So, when boredom gets the upper hand, you need purpose and a sense of adventure and excitement to oust the invasion of negative feelings. But the shallow diet of sensational fantasy excitement, served up by television and movies, only affords temporary relief from boredom, not a deep sense of adventure.
Your feelings provide you with self-information. They provide you with instructions. They influence what you think, say and do. They influence your efforts to attain personal understanding. And the Moon in your birth chart declares you have an active feeling life.
There is great power in your feelings, hunches and intuitions so you need to strengthen your mentality. It’s energized by experience and a strong sense of purpose.
Your life is very much the expression of your mentality. You can view yourself as your soul’s higher mentality. And the Moon in your birth chart is the gauge of your mentality.
New experiences are continually adding new thoughts and feelings that integrate and organize into your mentality; and each new experience increases your ability to feel and think.
Your mentality is embedded with curiosity that’s easily aroused. It’s a powerful driver. It has you wondering, seeking information and learning.
You’re naturally inclined to absorb a certain kind of information. Maybe you’re curious about yourself; or other people and their private lives. Maybe you engage in idle speculation. Maybe you’re bogged down in a life of gossip and triviality. Whatever…it’s just your curiosity doing its thing.
Your mentality is suited to a purpose so you should give it something worthwhile to do. You need to put energy and effort into your daily life. Your mind should be in a state of positive expectation. Engage in some worthwhile activity that provides you with a sense of fulfillment. You can’t afford to descend into a mental world of gossip, pettiness and triviality.
You have feelings and intense feelings called emotions. Emotions are associated with powerful desires that create a profound and widespread disturbance of the nerve currents when they’re discharged in response to a situation demanding a more than normal energy response. When you feel anger, fear, loss, sorrow, hope, joy, passion or love the higher-than-normal discharge of nervous energy at a higher-than-normal tension has you feeling an emotion.
Each day is a page in your life story and your brain facilitates objective awareness. It’s where your life story is streamed onto the screen of consciousness in feelings and thoughts. And you may be inclined to presume that your brain is doing your thinking and that your mind is what your brain does.
The reverse is true. Your mind is a world of feelings, hunches and spontaneous observations and your brain facilitates their objective recognition. Your mind is doing your thinking and your brain is what your mind does.
This article contains words written by Elbert Benjamine.
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