The Mind’s Role is NOT to Control External Reality
The mind makes all sorts of silly commentary. Let’s say you’re walking outside and it’s cold. The mind goes, “It’s cold out here!” Now what good does that do you? You already know it’s cold! 
From there, the mind can go, “Well, I’ll be back home where it’s nice and warm in just a few minutes.”
What it’s doing is finding a way to give you some semblance of control. It can’t control external factors such as the weather, so it’ll attempt to control your inner world and say that things will be better in the future so that it feels okay. It’s a defense mechanism, really.
You can’t control what’s outside of you including other people, lottery numbers, whether you get the promotion or not, etc.
This creates a sort of insecurity because of the uncertainty. Fear arises from insecurity and not being in control. This inner mental narration gives you an illusion of control, much like a backseat driver. You take something which really doesn’t have anything to do with you, a tree perhaps, and start labeling and judging it to fit your model of the world and thus you create a relationship with it based on your values and beliefs. You’ve taken something out of your control and brought it into a reality which is more in your control. You’re no longer dealing with the object itself, but your perspective of the object.
So we could say that the mind is our tool to attempt to control reality. (We’re not able to control reality itself, but merely our perspective of it. Note how the tool fits in with the Law of Attraction…)
However, we actually give our minds an impossible task. It’s like this:
“I want everything to go my way. I want everyone to like me and approve of me. I want all my jokes to be well received. I don’t want anyone to speak badly of me. I don’t want anything I don’t like to happen to me. I don’t want anything to hurt me. I want everything I like to happen.”
Then you tell the mind to make all this happen, even if it has to work on it continuously. Just make it happen!
The mind, being an obedient little servant, goes, “You got it, boss! I’m on the job.”
Can you imagine any person actually trying to accomplish this? It’s impossible! It’s the equivalent of trying to jump from the earth to the moon. It’s just not a practical task.
Most minds are neurotic because they’re trying to do the impossible. If a human body kept trying to jump to the moon, we’d call the person crazy. Now the mind, too, is trying to do something crazy, but since everyone’s trying to do the mental equivalent of jumping to the moon, we call that normal. 
That’s not natural. That’s insane! Read More …
