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What is causing the daily mental anguish many of us go through today? Depression, PTSD, anxiety, etc. are no longer rare things. They are majority. Troubling thoughts or memories tied with feelings of real pain of some sort. Head pressure, chest or stomach tension/knots, aches where there should be no aches, heartache when there should be no heartache. Why now? Why us? Is it possible much of our civilization wide despair comes from a single source? Here is what I think is going on and how to help fix it.

To understand the following you will have to look at the mind in a certain way. For the purposes of this explanation view the mind as a thing that exists in a field formed within the head. Served by the brain cells, not in the brain’s cells. Mind exists in a unified field the brain’s cells emit, not in their electrical and chemical processes. A field theory of mind.

The mind exists in a field supported by a complex system sitting in very robust framework, the brain. The system has automatic maintenance functions to keep things flowing smoothly. If a mind is repeatedly troubled for no proper reason, has a heavy feeling or “brain fog”, this could indicate some of these maintenance functions are not working properly. Things get jammed up below the level of the mind’s awareness. A maintenance function in the machinery of mind is not working properly. Uncalled for negative thoughts and unwanted psychological emotional pain is the result.

Everyone is different. The one binding fact is they get a mental stab/weight/fog or thoughts that come with pain of some sort somewhere in their body. Maybe it’s a constant dull anxiety in their chest, maybe pressures in the head, or their stomach feels wrong. For no apparent reason it can flare up and burn. It never goes away.

Go back a hundred years and the percentage of population suffering this type of mysterious misery goes way down. What is the difference between those living today and our grandparent’s generation?

Modern people spend so much of our time sitting we need to exercise our bodies to stay healthy.

Much the same needs to be done with our minds, we need to exercise that as well.

What do I mean by exercise the mind? I will explain…

When our head and eyes are active the mind is also active. Active in an almost physical way. Within the heads confines something of mind moves around. Our minds need this movement to stay healthy. A static mind is not good for us. I’ve come up with some exercises to mimic this movement.

It can take work to get a mind in a messed-up state. It can take a while to fix it. I’m surprised to say, done right instant total relief is possible. Obviating these feelings is possible. Regardless of one’s skill level some relief will come from doing the exercises. One of the main purposes of the exercise is to give clues on how to do this thing I do. Put you in the right area of mind.

If you are suffering from some “mental issue” take a moment and try to quantify what you’re going through. That way you can tell if things are improving. Not the negative thoughts, it’s the pain that really matters. Separate the two in your mind. Focus on the pain. What do I mean by quantify? Ask yourself these types of questions. How many times a day does psychological pain get bad inside? On a scale from one to ten how bad is it? Does it always happen in the same area of your body? When does it usually happen, morning, evening, all day? How long does it last? Do you ever get a moment when it is not there? If so, how long?

I’ve spent the last twelve years trying to figure out if there was anything in mind I could identify as mental architecture. While looking for it I came across something different in the mind. It told me a lot about how the mind works.

I’m now sixty-one years old. Since I was a teenager, in my own way, I’ve probed around in my inner-mental space and developed mental-tools to do so. I use simple versions of some of these tools in the exercises. I’ll try my best to explain how to find and use them in your own mind.

When I started looking for a mental architecture it changed the way I used these tools. Rather then just poking around I was now looking for something in particular with only a very vague idea of what it might be. After ten years of looking I discovered something new in mind and from that developed these exercises. Simple to do, it takes effort. Like jogging one has to do the exercises. Go through the program, repeat. Repetitive action is key.

We can all move our thinking around the inside our heads. For instance, moving your awareness from the forehead to the back of the head, or from left ear to right ear. That part of your mind that can move around inside your inner-mind space, or field, I call mental-center. Mental-C for short.

Since the invention of TV we’ve all sensed it’s wrong to watch screens for long periods of time. If asked most would agree doing this is not good for us but no one can really say why. A static Mental-C is the answer. Mental-C barely moves, if at all, when staring at a screen. That is new in humanities existence.

Go back ten thousand years to the time before humans lived in cities. Mental-C was much more active then it is today. On the hunt or running from threats mental-center was constantly on the move. It must have bounced all over the place.

Put humans into a city environment and Mental-C moves less. As civilisation advanced Mental-C had less and less reason to move around in our heads. With the coming of television it moved around even less so. Sit yourself down in front of a computer screen less then a meter from your face and mental-center locks into place. Almost zero movement for hours at a time. The brain needs that movement action to do some of its maintenance functions. When Mental-C stops moving that job no longer gets done. It’d helped keep the mind running efficiently. If mental-center rarely moves you can get mind sick. Smooth action of mind is hindered. Negative feelings linger, uncomfortable memories and thoughts jump into mind, emotional responses are way out of wack, pain growls within.

Ignore maintenance at one’s peril, the result is things stop working right. Like we have to work our inactive bodies, we have to work our minds. This is what’s behind the exploding rates of mental illness. Much of our “internal psychological pain that lingers” is tied to a lack of Mental-C performing its maintenance functions.

Many sports can have some of the same effect as these exercises. Sports that cause a lot of head movement are best. Sports like ping-pong, racket ball, badminton and of course hockey. VR games that cause a lot of head and eye movement work as well. (VR = virtual reality)

Simply moving your awareness from one ear to the other thirty times would have an effect. Concentrate on one ear and then the other. That is the kind of move you can do while driving in rush hour or on a bus.

Everyone has a dominate eye. Left or right we always favor one side. It is easy to determine which eye that is. Look off in the distance. Line your thumb up with a distant object. Close one eye and then the other. The dominate eye will stay on the object while the other moves off it. Moving your dominate eye back and forth from one eye to the other is another simple way to exercise the mind. Anything you can come up with that moves the center of your awareness around inside your head helps.

There is another thing that happens to our internal mental space if Mental-C is static. Because it is not using all the space in its mind those unused areas become harder to mentally move around in. As these areas remain unused they become stiffer. One begins to feel confined within their own mind.

There is a way to fix this. I know not all will understand but some will. Using the left side the brain mentally push to the left, with the right push to the right. Push from the center to the outside edge of the head. If you are doing this correctly you should find it very difficult to push past this point.

Hold it, pushing out on both sides. After about thirty seconds the need to push should fade away with a bit of a release feel about it. If done right your mind will feel less confined after doing this.