Wednesday, August 25, 2010

EBT (Emotional Brain Treasure ).

An adult mind grows to trust another when the other delivers the desired results. One begins to trust those who give a positive emotional feedback. Similarly when one goes to a new neighborhood and has good results the person feels safe. If one gets robbed in some neighborhood one becomes suspicious of it and tries to stay away from it. From very early on the fetus tries to figure out its own self. Almost for nine long months it is aware of only its own self. So it gives its own self credit for all the good feedback and it blames itself for all the bad feed back. Thus it grows up trusting itself or being suspicious of itself. Fortunately most wombs are extremely heavy duty cushions and most fetus' end up feeling extremely good about their own self.

At birth the child feels omnipotent and omnipresent. Slowly it dawns on the child that it is not only not omnipotent it is actually dependent on others for everything. When life out side the womb is nurturing and healthy the child starts to discover new pleasures, from breast sucking to hugs and kisses. From tasting new flavors to open spaces. To baths and cleanliness. The child starts to associate total dependence with heavenly bliss. It starts to develop feelings of humbleness. It even begins to totally get absorbed in the now. The more comfort the more trust it has in its own self and in its life. Gradually as it starts to notice that it is not omnipresent it starts to associate its own happiness on its close relatives. So it begins to trust its own self as well as all others. The foundations of its own self begin to emerge. By the time the child is 6 years old its brain is running on full knowledge power and it is well set on the road to becoming emotionally super mature. It begins to feel and actualize the true self.

In the womb because of the nature of the womb environment the feed back to the fetus' brain results in an unrealistic over confident self image. After birth the child is hit very very gradually by the actual reality of life.
If the new life is happy the child begins to enjoy its helplessness. It associates its dependence with all kinds of new pleasures and thus begins to feel happiness in its helplessness. It begins to enjoy humbleness, the key foundation on way to emotional super maturity. As life is a pleasure it soaks in all the pleasures of life. It does not want to run away from it. It enjoys life in the now another key foundation of emotional super maturity. Thus if life after birth is again a constant positive feed back the child's brain/mind is well set on the way to emotional super maturity. The most important affect of this life of pleasure is that the self itself emerges into the consciousness of the child. There is no need for the child's brain to take refuge in the past and try to cling to the feelings of omnipotence and omnipresence. So there is no need to build up and cling to an image of being omnipotent and/or omnipresent. They are quite comfortable with an image of their true self which at this stage is dependent and helpless. Thus it develops feelings of humbleness the key quality of selflessness.

The ancients were able to observe that many children show signs of being wise from very early on. So they concluded that one of the ways to be wise is to be naturally endowed with wisdom. The truth is that those children who are emotionally and physically nurtured in a healthy and loving environment don't need to escape from their current happy life so their brain does not need to block out the pleasant current reality. The brain does not need to mentally escape from the current life, so it does not build up any escape factors. It has no need to develop a phony self image to take mental refuge in it. It builds up its image on reality, on truth and on its true self. Its current life of pleasure exposes it to experience love and its underlings like respect/confidence in self and others. The brain is like a vessel. When life is happy for the child its brain keeps building the past happy memories with the newer happy memories. Happiness gets entrenched into the physical brain structure creating its own memory patterns. The brain fills up with EBT (emotional brain treasure), the emotional force that powers and projects super emotional maturity.

If its life after birth is unhappy and painful then it emotionally withdraws inward and instead of developing its true self it sticks to the early feelings of omnipotence. So instead of developing its true self it begins to form a phony and confused self image. As the current life is painful and unhappy it dwells mentally in the past. Thus creating a disconnect from current life. Instead of living in the now it dwells in the past, clinging on to the earlier omnipotent self image. Its current life of pain and unhappiness exposes it to experiencing hate and all its underlings like anger, doubt, jealousy etc. These feelings over time entrench themselves into the brain structure causing actual physical changes in the brain. The brain fills up with EBG ( emotional brain garbage ).

But there is good news and bad news in the way America brings up her children. Most American parents provide a nurturing environment to their children. So for the first few years most American children stay on the right path toward accumulating EBT. The American child enjoys its early life, living in the now and building up its true self and does not need to take refuge in a phony self image that is a result of experiencing pain. But long before EBT changes physically the infrastructure of the brain the parents indulge in omnipotence transference. The parents try to fulfill their own unrealized dreams of being the best through their children. Thus they introduce an element of falsehood into the brain of their children. Thus instead of developing their true self the children develop a phony over confident self image. Thus replacing part of the EBT with EBG in their brains.

EBG is of two kinds. EBG - 1 is when the child is trying to flee its unhappy life and so as it cannot do it physically it withdraws mentally into a past life of happiness thus building up EBG in the brain. This form of EBG creates a phony over confidence. EBG - 2 is when even though its life is happy in the now the parents introduce a future picture of great success thus shifting the child's focus from living in the now to preparing for the future. The current life becomes secondary to the preparation for the future. This creates two problems. One the child's focus shifts from living in the now to dreaming about the future, so a disconnect from reality occurs. And it begins to accumulate EBG that powers a trophy self image. Thus instead of developing the true self the child develops a phony trophy self image. EBG - 1 generates a phony over confidence to compensate for the helplessness and doubt from the current unhappy life. EBG - 2 generates a phony over confidence as the child has total trust in the parent and so when the parent says that the child is the best the child believes the parent.

However EBG - 2 is not as bad as EBG - 1. EBG - 2 creates a very ambitious self image. And often children are encouraged to focus on their preparation for the future. And many do just that and do become the best possible. Also as the trophy self image has a never ending desire for more and more successes the person keeps on working for more and more. Even though this over striving and over working takes its own toll in exhaustion and worries etc. the positive part is that the extra efforts produce extra goods. In fact I talked to a high government official and he said to me that without a trophy self image America is not America! America is where it is because of this constant working for more and more! But when I said to him that with a clear cut policy of consciously creating super mature emotionally intelligent Americans we can not only produce more we can eliminate all the problems that are generated by a trophy self image. He agreed that we must wake up the country to this harmful affects of planting EBG - 2 in our children brains. We must deliberately implant only EBT in our future generations.

If only I could wake up America to the toxic affects of EBG -2 and the magical affects of EBT, I will have achieved the full purpose of my life.

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