MIND AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Two terms often confused or used one or the other, incurring a conceptual mistake.

CONSCIOUSNESS as a concept implies the knowledge of oneself and of its circumstances, both internal and external that build up the moment we are living. In its manifestation the intelligence and its expression (the thoughts) are concurrent in the present. No matter if what is made aware to us is something of the past, an internal or external stimulation (in the instant that manifests itself), or the prospect of something future; the CONSCIOUSNESS, is always at the present.

Acts of CONSCIOUSNESS indeed make up the memory and are resident therein, until they emerge on the present moment and become again conscious.

MIND on the other hand, consists of cognitive associations that we have recorded which directly influence our behavior; It is -doing the parallel with a computer- as the "operating system" that drives the behavior of human beings, in accordance with the circumstances of the moment (program application in use), even without manifestation of CONSCIOUSNESS; the mind in such a case, makes us to behave practically in an automatic way and takes care of rolling back the past and enslave us to that past; or prospects our future and also enslave us to what we think it may come.

The Goal: Consciousness managing the Mind as a tool to LIVE THE NOW!!!