Idea/Thought Generator

There are many psychological control methods divulged by many current and previous yogis, mystics, and psychologists. Most of these have to do with thought control. In the yoga process which is presented by Patanjali, he listed some aspects of mind which are termed as vrittis in his language. These are five mento-emotional operations.

What happens is that there is a direction given by teachers and by nature itself, for the control of the ideation process, the feature of controlling the ideas, thoughts and images which are presented in the mind. However, the advanced stage is to focus on the generator of the ideas, thoughts, and images and no so much on the ideas themselves.

The focus should be to bring the thought generator under tight control, rather than try to control what it produces which are correct analysis, incorrect analysis, imagination, and memory. There is also the sleep impulse but that is a separate operation which is handled in a more complex way which involves learning how to monitor the subtle energy usage in the psyche.

When some control of the generator is established, there arises the need to figure how some mind content derives the power to resist and in fact, even overpower the coreSelf, the observing commander in the mind. When these reasons are figured, the yogi takes action to curtail the intake mouth of the mind. That is its sensual orifices which eat or ingest sense data.

If for instance, a certain sense object or sense target is craved by the mind, then if it is a strong desire or urge, the mind will resist any effort to regulate the consumption of the flavor, taste, color, feeling or sound. The mind will exercise an emphasis, a gripping energy for acquiring it.

This has to be solved by checking the mind’s interest in the said sense object, as to the reason for the hunger for it, as to if it compels the mind, and as to what can be done to either eliminate, disable, or reduce the urge for it.

Once the thought generator is identified, efforts are made to bring that psychic machinery under control. The related question is. What is the definite method of switching off the generator?

Patanjali request this control. Can it be done?