Today is a special day. I have finally found the logic that fulfills me, even though it is a very first fragment.
Do you remember the fantasy story I told about a year ago? (this article) I explained my life as a fantasy story. In that story, I was born in a country called Evernight Country. I wanted to see the sun, so I began my journey to the Sunlight Country, even though I didn’t even know whether it existed.
Then, I finally saw the sun. I could not stop my tears for over 30 minutes when I saw it.
Even though a slight part of the sun appeared over the horizon, it fulfilled my mind.
Today, I will explain the logic of why we have mental confusion and how to fulfill our minds. Although I will omit trivial explanations and talk roughly, this will reassure you because you will understand you are already on the right path toward solving your mental problem.
How to live
Sometimes, we want to live. Many sufferings afflict us.
One typical torment is a mental complex. It makes us confused about our values. We lose our original values. Intense emotions drive us.
Some say it is losing the boundaries of the self. Some say there is a different personality called the inner child inside us. Some say it is an inferiority complex or a mental disease, which includes depression or manic-depressive disorders. Whatever we call it, we cannot control our minds.
That is why we want to control our minds. There are many methods for it. Examples are positive thinking, self-affirmation, emotional management, or tips for happiness.
Toward the solution
However, none of them are effective in the long term. Although it works in the short term, we will soon return to mental struggling.
We are already exhausted from disguising our lives and don’t want to lie to ourselves any more. Lying to ourselves is the same as killing ourselves mentally.
That is why we desire to live.
To solve this problem, I will introduce the logic of why we have such mental troubles and how we can solve them. This will show us we are already on the right path toward the solution. Let’s look at it below.
How we approach
You can solve your mental problem by trying to find the logic that fulfills you. It doesn’t matter whether you discover it or not. That behavior itself brings you to the resolution.
Although it may sound nonsensical, you can understand the meaning if you comprehend the logic.
To explain the logic, let me introduce the mental system.
Empathy vs. logical sense
If we are empathic and logical, we have two senses, as follows:
- Empathy is the ability to generate emotions and images. It is for stabilizing the environment and our lifestyles. It allows us to worry about the future and prepare. It suppresses the logical sense.
- Logical sense is the ability to deduce and judge based on logic. It is for changing the environment and our lifestyles. It allows us to change and adapt to the new situation. It suppresses empathy.
The most important point is that empathy cannot control emotions. It only generates. It means we cannot control our emotions by training empathy.
Logical sense suppresses emotions.
Empathy heats us up. Logical sense cools us down. We have to understand our mental functions from a broader perspective. Using logical sense allows us to control and balance our emotions.
The critical misunderstanding
In other words, we have to focus on developing logical sense to solve emotional problems.
Many people misunderstand that we can solve emotional problems by concentrating on their emotions. I was as well. A typical example is seeking spiritual methods.
However, it was the wrong approach. If we have logical sense, we have to train logical sense to manage our minds. Relying on spiritual methods is for non-logical people. (I will omit how non-logical people limit their emotions. I will explain it at some point.)
That is why spiritual methods don’t work for us permanently.
The cause of our mental problems
Intense empathy causes our mental troubles.
To identify the cause, we have to distinguish between our innate natures and acquired problems.
If we are empathic, we have the following innate natures: lack of patience, preference for freedom, the ability to imagine, the talent to feel future risks and worry about them, the ease of losing self-boundaries, strong emotional memory ability, or the tendency to feel guilt.
We don’t have to modify them. They are our talents.
On the other hand, intense empathy causes the following problems: uncontrollable emotions, unstoppable imagination, flashbacks, lack of confidence, self-blame, anxiety disorders, depression, or manic-depressive disorders.
They are symptoms of too-strong empathy.
Our childhood experience
Our childhood experience often caused it. If our surroundings, especially our parents, illogically suppressed us, we have to grow empathy while ignoring logical sense. A typical example is the irrationality: ‘A child’s success is thanks to the good teachings of the parents; the child’s failure is the child’s fault (or others’ fault).’
We tried to anticipate future risks not to make our parents angry. That caused overly strong empathy. Then, we could not change the environment. We could not do anything but follow orders from stronger people. We had to focus on stabilizing the environment.
That was the origin of too strong an empathy and too poor a logical sense.
Strengthening logical sense
To solve the problem, there are two approaches, as follows:
- (Refraining from empathic activities)
- Strengthening logical sense
Both are effective in limiting too strong empathy.
Empathy and logical sense are the same as muscle. The more we use it, the more it gets strengthened. The less we use it, the less it affects us.
In my current opinion, it would be better to focus on the latter. This is because the former depends on the case.
Although refraining from empathic activities can limit our empathy, it can work well for us to express our emotions through our products, such as stories or pictures. Resonating with others’ products is the same. This is because we can organize our emotions, recognize their existence, and accept them.
Awareness of our emotions can be the first point to think logically about them. That is why refraining from empathic activities is not always negative.
Hierarchy of logic
To resolve our mental problem, enhancing our logical power would work well.
Logic has a hierarchy, as follows:
- (The simplest) universal logic: We focus on the laws of nature.
- Philosophy: We focus on ways of life.
- Strategy: We focus on how to win.
- Ways of thinking: We focus on individual tips corresponding to each case.
The higher the side (the side of universal logic) we have, the stronger logical power it requires.
In other words, to cultivate logical strength, it is necessary to integrate the various ways of thinking inside us into the upper level. As our logical power develops, our focus goes higher. It gives us simpler principles to live well.
The stages of life
It tells us we can live according to the stages of life.
Growing logical power is not a competition. Logical sense is the same as muscle, as said earlier. There is no point in trying to lift something heavier than yourself. To consider it as a competition is already irrational. You don’t have to rush.
The stages of life might change as follows:
- (Starting point) the entry stage: We learn ways of thinking as much as possible.
- The strategic stage: After digesting and absorbing many ways of thinking, we try to create our business or products strategically.
- The philosophical stage: After realizing the limits of the strategic ways and giving them up, we try to build our own ways of life.
- (Final point) the selfless stage: After understanding the laws of nature, we try to live by them.
Using this as a reference, you can think about what you should create now. As we develop our logical sense, our lives become easier in terms of controlling our emotions.
In other words, confusion about values is an inevitable and necessary stage. However, we can graduate it by integrating ways of thinking ourselves.
How to apply logic to ourselves
It also tells us why the Cross-Judging method I created last year (the summary is in this article) worked only for me and didn’t work for many people. It is because it depends on one’s logical strength. It is effective for people who live in a philosophical stage.
Perhaps this blog’s readers are in higher stages. I am now focusing on the philosophical stage. Only those who are interested in that level come to this blog.
However, you don’t have to imitate me. You have your own stage. For some readers, my past articles may be more suitable than my current ones.
It also means you are already on the right path toward solving your mental problem.
Don’t worry. Your future will be better. Of course, there will be many unexpected setbacks. In addition, I don’t know what the future holds and how the future unfolds. However, there is a path of hope.
My case
In my case, the discovery of this logic saved me.
To be honest, I have doubted my way of life countless times. I was not confident in my path. Although I behaved calmly and logically in this blog, I was uneasy. I often thought I should quit this blogging. It doesn’t make money and is only for my enjoyment.
However, the mysterious power within me kept me writing this blog. Although I still don’t know what it is, something inside me has helped me.
I have tried to find the logic that fulfills me. However, that was a little wrong. Trying to find the logic itself was the answer in this case. Creating higher logic was the solution.
That saved me. My activity was not meaningless.
The sunrise
The moment I realized this logic, I saw a sight in my imagination. It was a scene where a strong light appeared on the horizon.
I always had such an imagination in my head. I don’t know why, but it often told me about my state at that point.
Until now, it was a bright sky before dawn. However, there was a certain, strong shine. I immediately understand that it was the ‘sun,’ which I told in my past fantasy story. Although it was a little part, it was certainly the sun.
When I saw the scene, I could not stop my tears. That was the first time I had cried this much since becoming an adult. I was glad that I embarked on the journey of my life.
Although it was still a tiny part, I understand I have finally found the very first fragment of the logic that fulfills me.
Conclusion
That was the logic of why we have mental troubles and how we can solve them.
You can solve your mental problem by trying to find the logic that fulfills you.
Focus on the logical side.
This logic would show you that you are already on the right path toward the solution.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope to see you in the next one.
