Our minds need to cope with us worrying all the time. Imagine! On each occasion when something goes wrong and your automatic reaction is to ruminate and project dark scenarios, your mind has to prevent you from manifesting all those scenarios in real life.
Of course, this mechanism doesn’t always work well enough for all of us. That seems natural, too. In the world that is pulling us in opposite directions, where so many live in the presence of contradicting values, depression seems to be a valid response.
Recently a friend of mine said that when he looks at the world as it currently functions, he concludes that it is more normal these days to be depressed than not to be. I see his point. But I also see so many people conquering the adversities of life in spite of the greatest hardships, that I am convinced:
We must have some kind of a “mind programme” that helps us overcome even the most impossible of challenges.
I think of it as antivirus software or a firewall that prevents the most destructive experiences from embedding themselves into our minds.
Over the course of the evolution, humans developed something called negative cognitive bias — a tendency to pay more attention to failures and threats than…
