Trapped by Our Own Psychology

She had two new job offers. She spent several sleepless nights caught up in trying to decide which job to take. Her mind was flooded with scenarios depicting what job number one would be like as compared with job number two. This mental loop hounded her and made it difficult for her to decide.

Have you ever experienced a similar thought pattern that came to dominate your daily thinking? The more you tried to push it aside, the more it seemed to gain momentum and cloud your mind and activities. What then, can one do to alter this nagging pattern once it occurs?

While playing a game might bring you joy for a while, Sadhguru asks, what if you were trapped in a game that you couldn’t stop playing? This scenario reflects the many ways in which we trap ourselves in our own psychological drama of thoughts and emotions. This drama, says Sadhguru, is like a cloud blocking the sun – it prevents us from experiencing life the way it is.