The Borderless Habitation !! Thursday Gists With IyanulOluwa Ololade

Thursday gist with Iyanuloluwa Ololade
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THE BORDERLESS HABITATION

It is so good to have you on another gist level; I always look forward to sending useful gist to you.

Come! Let’s roll with the issue of the borderless habitation. A habitation houses things and people; this is not an unknown fact. Though a habitation is expected to have a border or bricks even if not well laid out or porous, there is a habitation that does not and will never have a border, that habitation is the human mind. The major inlets of the human mind – ears and eyes make the mind borderless because humans encounter a lot of things and are exposed to a lot of things too.

The human mind is believed to have three levels; the preconscious, the conscious and the unconscious level respectively. Whatever is being processed in the preconscious mind is expected to be retrieved by the conscious mind because the preconscious mind is like a short-term memory. On the other hand, the conscious mind brings us momentary awareness of immediacy and those from the preconscious e.g. feelings, a memory, wishes and thoughts. It is always easy for us to express ourselves through our conscious mind whereas the unconscious level is the reservoir of the bad and ugly.

The human mind is capable of a whole lot of things from reasoning and imagination to establishing a belief system. It is deep, wide, unpredictable, inaccessible and comprehensive. No matter how many words we speak per minute, the mind can never be completely poured out. The mind happens to be the most neglected of all the human components partly due to our environment, exposure and experiences but the bulk of the work lies with us if we will be intentional about our mental health regardless of what happens.

Humans tend to bottle up the bad and ugly in the boys’ quarters of the mind (the unconscious level) which in most cases may make the mind lose its sanity in the long run. Unresolved and repressed issues can sometimes slip from our unconscious mind to the conscious mind through the words of our mouths or confessions, decisions or reactions. This may be an indication that the mind may be suffering from excess burden.

As much as possible, I will advise everyone to thrash out the bad and ugly experiences, encounters and exposures immediately. Don’t repress them into your unconscious mind because that can be a very dangerous journey in the short or long run. For those ugly and bad encounters and experiences that have been locked up in our unconscious quarters, let us take time to let them out. Declutter your mind.

Cry if you need to cry, see a therapist or counselor if there is a need for that, break free and be ready to seek the appropriate help possible. The mind can wane at an unpredictable instance; I trust that you will not want to be a shadow of yourself or captive of your mind.