Our Mind Prefers Fear Over Happiness | Aswin Sundharam | Romancelovesophy

3 months ago

Our mind is not really trying to make us happy… it is trying to keep us safe. Because of this, it often creates fear, worst-case scenarios, and unnecessary worry… even when there is no real danger. This comes from old survival patterns that still run inside us today. At the same time, many of our thoughts are not meaningful at all… they are just random mental noise… habits, memories, and reactions repeating again and again. But we take them seriously… and that is where suffering begins. The tricky part is… these thoughts speak in our own voice. They say “I”… so we believe they are truly us. But in reality, they are just patterns pretending to be us. We also get stuck in thought loops… overthinking problems again and again… which feels like control… but actually keeps us trapped. The min