These goals could relate to the external world-to make a meal, build a house, or travel to the moon-or to the internal world of self-to feel happy, not make mistakes, never be depressed again, or be a good person. The job of this mode of mind is to get things done-to achieve particular goals that the mind has set. The ruminative state of mind is actually a variant of a much more general mode of mind that has been called the “doing” mode. These two modes are known as “doing” and “being.” The “Doing” Mode In practice, this task often comes down to recognizing two main modes in which the mind operates, and learning the skills to move from one to the other. We might describe this as learning to shift mental gears.
#Simply being well how to
We can think of mindfulness training as a way to learn how to become more aware of your mode of mind (“mental gear”) at any moment, and the skills to disengage from unhelpful modes of mind and to engage more helpful modes. It opens a way for us to use aspects of everyday experience to learn new ways to relate to the kind of mind states that lead to rumination. The fact that a limited number of fundamental modes of mind underpin a wide variety of mental activities has important implications. This, in turn only serves to confirm our view that we are not the kind of person we feel we need to be in order to be happy. Our continued dwelling on how we are not as we would like to be just makes us feel worse, taking us even further from our desired goal. And in much the same way a car can only be in one gear at a time, when the mind is in certain modes, it will not be in other modes at the same time.
#Simply being well series
Over the course of a day, as the mind switches from one kind of activity to another, the underlying mode of mind changes-a little like the way that a car, driven through a busy city, there will be a continuous series of changes from one gear to another. Just as each gear has a particular use (starting, accelerating, cruising, etc.), so each mode of mind has its own particular characteristics and functions. We can think of these modes of mind as loosely analogous to the gears of a car. These core patterns reflect some basic “modes of mind.”
If we looked long enough, we would see that a limited number of core patterns of brain activity and interaction seem to crop up as recurring features in a wide variety of different mental activities.
Over time, we would see the different activities of the mind reflected in continually shifting and evolving patterns of interaction between brain networks. For a while, one pattern predominates, then a shift occurs, so brain networks that previously interacted in one pattern now do so in a different configuration. If we looked into the brain, we would see shifting patterns in the activity of networks and in their connections with each other as the mind moves from one task to another. Networks can also be linked together in different patterns. The networks involved in one activity are often different from those involved in another activity. Different mental activities, such as reading a book, painting a picture, or talking to a loved one, each involve different patterns of interaction between networks of nerve cells in the brain. The activities of the mind are related to patterns of brain activity.
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