"me" or "it"

could be :

1. . . body

2. . . brain in the body

3. . . instincts in the body and brain

4. . . mind in the brain

5. . . memories in the mind / brain

6. . . thoughts in the brain / mind

7. . . feelings in the . . . . . . . . . .in the . . . . . .

Come to think of it, where do we feel feelings?

Come to think of it, what are feelings?

For some reason I could not understand,

this question made me feel very scared.

To get over my fear, I started adding things to my list

I added things like:

Name - Address - Job - Friends - Opinions - Likes - Loves - Hates

I like things don't I? I am a person that likes and dislikes things

I think . . . . .

Then

I stopped making the list, because it did not feel like me.

It was just a list . . . . . . . I could not find out about me, by making

more of "me", by having a longer list.

Oh great ! now, not only did I not know what "me" might be

I did not know what feelings were either . . . . . .

There was lots of advice, "out there" in the world

philosophies

religions

therapies

promises

some of them quite attractive.

There was lots going on "inside" - my head

that is, I noticed that my mind was never short of thoughts

it just was not so great on answers.

That's not true ! it had lots of answers

but none of them felt right . . . . . . .

( Please add your own story here, about how lonely

and miserable I was. I am not shy about telling you

more about me, it's just that most of my details are

a distraction. This is a site about Praxis, I only talk

about me when it illustrates the main point, the

technique of Praxis).

In my lowest moment I overheard a little bit

of a conversation between two ladies talking about

hair styling. I was sat behind them on a red double-decker bus.

One turned to the other and said:

"It's not what, it's how".

 

The genius of that, it just knocked me out . . . .

but what did it really mean?