Obvious but not Simple TRAP - 1

Understanding nature of 'I' is very crucial in spirituality. Understanding nature of free will is the first step in knowing self.There is centuries of debate happening on free will and determinism. But despite of several efforts, philosophers and scientists failed to reach to fruitful conclusions on these issues. The reason being lack of in depth subjective nature of psych. To investigate our subjective nature, one should monitor and investigate his thoughts and feelings. Continuously monitoring our thoughts, our feelings and our time to time choices over available options unravels the dynamics of our mind.

Understanding the sequence of thoughts and their dependencies is a simple process than understanding dynamics of feelings. The process is as follows - When you have thought for a long time, just try to recall the thoughts from beginning sequentially. If you are able to recall all the thoughts then it is great! Next, given the previous thought, try to analyze, why the next thought was triggered. And why not any other thought. Which factors were involved in triggering that particular thought ? Do this exercise as many times as possible. Try to investigate very meticulously and sincerely. Don't involve anybody else in this process. Try best to give the answer yourself. It's quite possible that you may not be able to answer some questions. But thinking over it deeply and doing this exercise many times will reveal many things.

Benefits of understanding thought dynamics-
Thought analysis slowly makes us to understand the internal component of our mind, it makes us to understand some metaphysical things. It lets us know that, can we really attribute the ownership of these thoughts to 'I' or not ? and finally this leads to increase our interest in our subjective world !