The Power of the Conscious Mind
We cannot change most things that go on around us but we can put our mind to controlling our reactions to them. This will put us back in control. A world in which we just follow the tides is an erratic and schizophrenic one, with no consistency. This is very taxing and damaging to the body, mind and spirit. What our inner mind wants, also known as urges(id) and what individuals in the society or the society, as a whole, want of us, including cultural norms, are usually in conflict, resulting in unconscious manifestations, our egos; an attempt to assert selfness and bounce back. Urges that go against our conscience, which bears our moral values, deal with a more severe conflict because it(our conscience) tells us we cannot have it. This is superego. Since the urges(our inner wants) are usually very strong, as our conscious mind is in the process repressed, we react to the conflict w...