Most people believe they are their mind. They think the voice in their head — the endless commentary, the worries, the judgments — is who they are. This is the greatest case of mistaken identity in human history. The mind is not you. It is an expression of something far deeper.
The state of mind decides our reality. Yet most people never ask what decides the state of mind. The human mind is simply the expression of consciousness — invisible and unmeasurable, yet it controls and regulates every functioning of our brain and body. Think of it like a computer: the mind is the screen, but consciousness is the operating system. You cannot fix what appears on the screen by touching the screen.
Our level of consciousness decides the types of thoughts we enjoy. People with higher consciousness always have constructive, useful, and realistic thoughts. People with lower consciousness always have destructive, useless, and delusional thoughts. This is not a matter of effort or discipline.
You cannot get clean water from a contaminated well — the well itself must become clean.
This is why all techniques aimed at "controlling" the mind fail. You cannot control a disordered mind with the same disordered mind. That is like asking a drunk man to perform his own sobriety test. The mind cannot fix itself. It needs something beyond itself. It needs higher consciousness.
The state of our mind emerges from the interconnection of various elements: our sensory inputs, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, trust, love, affection, empathy, compassion, memories, character, willpower, determination, gratitude, imagination, inspiration, motivation, enthusiasm, feelings, fear, perception, hope, experiences, intellect, and our internal and external environments. This, altogether, is controlled and regulated by our level of consciousness.
While our state of mind is the closest most of us come to experiencing the Mind, the Mind's existence extends beyond it. Through the evolution of consciousness, we gain the ability to control our thoughts.
Through commanding our thoughts, we reach thoughtlessness — Samadhi. It is in this silence that we experience the true nature of the Mind. This is possible after attaining Enlightenment.
When consciousness rises through Divine Connection, the mind does not need to be controlled — it simply becomes orderly. And beyond order lies silence. Not the silence of suppression, but the silence of mastery.
The mind was never the problem. The level of consciousness operating it was.