Chapter 22 6.Dispel the theater atmosphere in loose clothes, you can see everything clearly

The ancients said that the sky should be the quilt and the earth should be the bed.In the midst of difficulties, I also put on a show, imagining that countless people are looking at me, and it is indeed free and easy and romantic. If you don’t pretend, if you don’t turn the scene of yourself living in the wilderness into a theater with the sky and the earth as the stage background, and turn your situation where you don’t even have a place to live into a romantic performance between heaven and earth, then It's not fun anymore. Homeless people shivering and sleeping in overpass holes are not fun in the media portrayal, at least in our opinion, they are not romantic at all.

Of course, as props for performances, they can also be used as "relief" by the government, or "warmth" performances by the media and citizens.This is another matter. As far as psychological strength is concerned, the biggest problem we face is that when others come on stage, mobilize various resources, perform various symbolic symbols, and explain the rules of the game that are most beneficial to them, they are immediately caught by a theater mentality. It's disastrous, you're mentally entering a theater where you're not the main character. As I said before, the essence of pretending is weakness.If we can be calm enough, when we are placed in a stage installation, bypass its proscenium setting, and look at it from behind and from a height, the situation of this installation is psychologically detached by us.

Imagine that someone built a large stage on a flat ground with background facilities, someone was giving an impassioned speech on it, and the audience in front of them was listening with gusto. If you are also a member of the audience, you will feel psychologically Immersed in the speech situation, depending on the content of the performer's speech, you may feel excited, angry, or infinite hope for the future... In short, you have a theatrical psychology.However, suppose you are at a high place and watching this scene quietly: a group of people are sitting in front of the stage listening to a person's speech. What kind of expressions and body movements the speaker has will affect the audience below. A certain reaction, you will feel a little ridiculous.You will feel that this is a set of tricks.

In the same way, if you can understand from the very beginning that a person's famous brand is actually a kind of performance equipment; a hotel decorated magnificently is a kind of stage arrangement, you will not be psychologically bewitched. These people and these stage facilities are awe-inspiring. In intellectual structure you rise above decorations, see through their weakness, and you will not feel inferior. Many years ago, I had an experience thinking about decorating.One day, because he was working for the teacher, he invited me and several other classmates to a luxury hotel for a meal.Two days later, I took a bus from the suburbs of a city to the city, and suddenly I thought of a problem that people don't think of as a problem: Why do people think a house is luxurious or shabby? Are there any differences in materials, various installations, and furnishings?And the difference in these things, why can one house look imposing and have a psychological shock to people, but the other one does not?

Looking at the farmland outside the window, I suddenly had an epiphany: Don’t the materials of those luxurious and high-end houses all come from the soil that is regarded as lowly?Aren't they built and decorated by those considered lowly migrant workers? Dispelling the theater atmosphere in loose clothes, it is a bit ridiculous to distinguish a building or a person into high-end or low-end. The essence of the problem is that this type of decoration is based entirely on fragility. When I think that the city is just a huge reinforced concrete jungle created in a wilderness, and the concrete floor, lawn and other decorations are covered with dirt, I almost laugh.A so-called high-end living area that is different from the countryside that is associated with the soil is nothing more than human beings tampering with the earth, but people are used to pretending.In other words, human beings play with the earth like a child playing with blocks.As long as the earth gets angry and there is an earthquake, these high-end buildings will be vulnerable!

All those people and things that usually make us look weak and inferior are not actually powerful.What is really powerful is the human rational thinking ability.If we see through the essence of a thing, and trigger or drive emotions, so that emotions carry our cognition into the psychological structure, then we can promote the change of the psychological structure, and we can become stronger psychologically . What kind of understanding the mind has and what kind of state the heart has, we have truly been changed. Taking my above experience as an example, let's analyze how to do this and what kind of psychological mechanism is there.

(1) When I realize that the city and the countryside are just the different results of human beings messing with the earth, in this state, I only have cognitive advantages, but no psychological advantages, that is to say, my psychological structure is still limited to that In the social value ranking of the difference between high-end and low-end. (2) When I laugh, what happens?It meant that I felt the absurdity and frailty of being human.At this time, my emotions have been triggered. (3) When I stay focused and keep thinking, I have a sense of enlightenment, and at the same time the emotion continues, the emotion begins to carry my understanding and seep into the surface layer of my mental structure.

(4) The deeper the comprehension, the more intense the emotions it arouses, the greater the energy that penetrates into the psychological structure, and the more it can really change me. (5) If my psychological structure is changed, then the superiority of the brain becomes the superiority of the mind, and the strength of the mind means the strength of the mind. We don't really understand a problem until thinking triggers an experience in the heart.Whether it is in terms of seeing through clothing or other things, if we want to change, we must transform our understanding of the problem into an experience of the heart.