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Why are we "suffering"?

🧠 Our brains don't like change... but life changes all the time.

What time didn't go as expected?

The brain will interpret it as "potentially dangerous."

So we feel stressed, anxious, or trying to control everything.

But the truth is...

🌿. Alas. - Everything changes, plain.

😔. Every prison - the more you hold everything intact, the more you suffer.

🕊️ Anutta - even thoughts and emotions are not a permanent self.

Science explains that the brain tries to reduce "uncertainty."

The Buddha taught to "understand uncertainty."

When we understand both angles,

We may not have to make life unproblematic.

But can live with change more peacefully.

💬 What is the matter today that you are trying to resist when its nature is "change"?

Let's share it in the comments. 🤍

Reference source:

* Karl Friston's work on the Free Energy Principle and the idea that the brain tries to reduce uncertainty.

* Predictive Processing Work (Andy Clark, Jakob Hohwy and Contemporary Researchers)

* The principle of trinity: vanity, all imprisoned, Anutta.

# Psychology # mentalhealth # Dharma # Anxious # Brain mechanism view graph

7/15 Edited to

... Read moreในชีวิตจริง ผมเคยพบว่าการเข้าใจธรรมชาติของความเปลี่ยนแปลงและความไม่แน่นอนช่วยให้การรับมือกับความทุกข์ง่ายขึ้นมาก สมองเราทำงานโดยพยายามสร้างแบบจำลองโลกเพื่อทำนายเหตุการณ์ล่วงหน้า แต่เมื่อสิ่งต่าง ๆ ไม่เป็นไปตามคาด หรือตกอยู่ในความไม่แน่นอน สมองจะส่งสัญญาณว่าอาจมีภัยคุกคาม ส่งผลให้เกิดความเครียดและวิตกกังวลอย่างทันที การตระหนักว่า "อนิจจัง" หรือความไม่เที่ยงแท้ของทุกสิ่งในชีวิตเป็นเรื่องปกติ ทำให้เรารู้จัก "ปล่อยวาง" ไม่ยึดติดกับสถานการณ์หรือความรู้สึกในปัจจุบันมากเกินไป ซึ่งตรงกับหลัก "ทุกขัง" ที่ระบุว่าการยึดติดคือสาเหตุแห่งทุกข์ และหลัก "อนัตตา" ที่ชี้ให้เห็นว่าตัวตนหรืออารมณ์นั้นไม่ถาวร ตัวอย่างในชีวิต เช่น เมื่อต้องเผชิญกับการเปลี่ยนแปลงงาน หรือความสัมพันธ์ที่เปลี่ยนไป เรามักรู้สึกกลัวและอยากเรียกร้องให้สิ่งต่าง ๆ กลับมาเหมือนเดิม แต่หากเรายอมรับว่าเป็นธรรมชาติของชีวิตที่ต้องเปลี่ยนแปลงและไม่แน่นอน การลดความทุกข์ก็จะเกิดขึ้นได้ง่ายขึ้น จากประสบการณ์ส่วนตัว การฝึกสังเกตความคิดและอารมณ์ที่เกิดขึ้น เหมือนการมองดูเมฆบนท้องฟ้าที่ลอยผ่านไปโดยไม่ต้องจับหรือดึงไว้ เป็นวิธีที่ช่วยให้จิตใจสงบลงและลดการต่อต้านความเปลี่ยนแปลง ขณะเดียวกัน การเรียนรู้จากงานวิจัยเกี่ยวกับ Free Energy Principle และ Predictive Processing ช่วยทำให้เข้าใจกลไกการทำงานของสมองในระดับลึก ช่วยให้เกิดความเข้าใจว่าทำไมเราถึงรู้สึกวิตกกังวลเมื่อเจอกับสิ่งที่ไม่แน่นอน ดังนั้น การฝึกฝนจิตใจเพื่อยอมรับและอยู่กับความไม่แน่นอน พร้อมทั้งเข้าใจธรรมชาติของชีวิตเพื่อไม่ยึดติด จะช่วยลดความเครียดและนำไปสู่ความสงบในชีวิตประจำวันได้จริง สุดท้ายนี้ ผมแนะนำให้ลองสังเกตตัวเองว่าคุณกำลังต่อต้านหรือพยายามควบคุมอะไรที่เป็น "การเปลี่ยนแปลง" อยู่บ้าง และลองแชร์ประสบการณ์หรือความรู้สึกเหล่านั้นกับคนรอบข้างเพื่อร่วมกันเรียนรู้และเติบโตอย่างมีสติร่วมกัน

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