Friday, November 21, 2008

A Small Reflection on Mental Model



Recently my friend and I spent a few moments meditating on the beach at night. I felt stressful at that time and he suggested we could spend some times together to sense and feel the nature.

Sitting by the sea, I was intimiated by different high waves at night. They were like the monsters who could swallowed me up to the darkeness. And I was scared. The waves rumbled and so did my heart.

My friend was bringing me to the meditative moments. I could feel the wind, wave and the air and realized that how lovely they were. And slowly I came to realize that "the intimidating waves are there a part of nature and they works by their own nature even though we might try to work hard to change their motions. The key stays deeply in my mind/ thoughts. As I had sensed fears about it, then it would be come fearful. Instead, I could accept as a part of the nature.

This has really opened up something. Many times, we've blocked ourselves with fears that stops us from seeing things by its reality. Instead, from the moments, I could learn to observe things and free myself from the fears! And probably because of this attachment, one has worked hard to change the things. In the other hands, the mental frame may cause different cause-effect lines by itself either virtually/ viciously.

As my friend said, the wave did not eat me up without my "imagination".

This is something about the work of mental model that I would like to share with you.

Thanks to my friend for the meditative moments!!!