The 3 Fundamentals Behind Our Biology and Our Psychology

The scientific community has been working on why conventional behavioral interventions have had limited results for some, and for others, none at all. To answer this question, we needed to have first found out what we mentioned in our previous post, entitled, "Suffering and Our Natural Blueprint" [1]. As we mentioned in that post, we now have a clear understanding that our biology, much less our psychology, was never the starting point. We now understand that there is a foundation behind both biology and psychology. There is a blueprint behind our normal blueprint, which is our natural blueprint, which in turn is made of the triad, that can take several names, including “the three fundamentals.”

As stated above, the names given to this triad, to this foundation, will vary until it becomes widely known. However, what does not and cannot vary, and what is expected to remain the same is what that triad or what this foundation is.

This foundation is the functional triad of mind, thought, and consciousness.

The three fundamentals are analogous to the fundamental forces of nature[2], notably: gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force. The fundamentals, just like these forces of nature, are just there. They neither bother anyone, respect anyone, nor do they play favorites. It matters not whether we know of their presence or not; whether we have faith or believe in them or not; or whether we understand them or not, they just are there, playing their role as part of the whole, called, “universe.” The three fundamentals behind psychology and biology function the same way. This explains why not having understood them before made no difference to our psychology or our biology. Recognizing them, understanding them, or even believing in them, or not, does not mean they do not still play their role. They have been running the show all along, just like the fundamentals of nature have been. And just like the moment we discovered gravity, we started to take great advantage of it (from airplanes to parachutes). Just like the moment we discovered electricity, the world’s civilization changed[3]. A lot will change when we fully understand the three fundamentals behind our biology and psychology.

Let us start with the fundamental of mind:

The fundamental of mind is the intelligence center; the enabler (in the sense that it allows things to happen). It is also understood as the coordinator (in the sense that it sorts things out all the time). The fundamental of mind is the intelligence behind our brain, which allows this organ of the body to be the command center for the rest of the organism.

Let us now move on with the fundamental of consciousness:

The fundamental of consciousness is basically our state of awareness. It is that which experiences, perceives, and understands. It is the decisive factor. In other words, the fundamental of consciousness, for example, allows us to experience a movie, get fully into it, including crying or laughing or even getting scared as our hearts race and our hands sweat, while still being aware it is not at all real but merely a movie. The fundamental of consciousness also allows us to dream and know at the same time that it is just a dream.

The fundamental of thought, on the other hand, is the operant factor, the creative factor, the catalyst, the driver, and that which really makes things happen. In order words, while the fundamental of mind is the intelligence behind it all, it gets activated by, or operated only, from a thought. A thought may, therefore, be seen as the most crucial factor of the three fundamentals, though this way of conceptualizing it has its limitations.

To further explain this, let us first explore the three types of thinking, which are: our insightful thinking, our experiential thinking, and our incessant thinking. In a nutshell, when engaged in incessant thinking, for example, which is commonly known as mental chatter, the fundamental of thought is running the show all by itself. Have you ever heard someone say, “You’re just in your head”? Well, here’s what she or he meant without knowing it. She or he meant, it’s all thought right now, no mind, and very little consciousness, if any at all.

Now, it does not mean that the fundamental of mind or the fundamental of consciousness are absent. On the contrary, just like the fundamental of thought, they are always present, but remember, the fundamental of thought is the operant factor. It can take over, particularly in the forms of limiting beliefs, determining our attitude, then our perception. The meaning we assign to things, then what we focus on, then the types of associative thoughts that ensue, then our emotions, then our behaviors, and the cycle continues until it gets broken by our own conscious intervention. In other words, left alone, our incessant thinking, the fundamental of thought, activates our normal blueprint (gene-environment-epigenetic, otherwise known as our biology and our psychology). It does not bypass it, rather, it reinforces it.

In contrast, when engaged in either insightful thinking or experiential thinking, we end up with a totally different scenario. During any or both of these two types of thinking, the fundamental of mind, the fundamental of consciousness, and the fundamental of thought fuse and become integrated, as they are meant to. In this case, while the fundamental of thought remains the operant factor, it is not running the show in the sense that it is not working on its own or separate from the rest of the functional triad or the other two fundamentals. The fundamental of thought, then, is no longer disintegrated, instead, it is all integrated, as is, therefore, the person in question. In other words, our natural blueprint is now activated. Needless to say, integration, which is the natural convergence of the fundamental of mind, the fundamental of consciousness, and the fundamental of thought, means ease, aliveness, focus, energy, health, comfort, among other components. Conversely, disintegration means exactly the opposite, including diseases.

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Given the fact that incessant thinking is and will always be around, we may be wondering how hard it must be for anyone to be integrated and how much harder it must be for those who are already suffering. It might have been very hard had the fundamental of thought been the intelligence center and not the operant factor. But mind is the intelligence center, and through consciousness or awareness, both insightful and experiential thinking become more and more in reach and available to anyone of us. Additionally, incessant thinking becomes more and more manageable, and then less and less prominent, with integration.

This is all possible because consciousness or state of awareness is infinite, though there are levels to it. However, the higher the level, the more time is spent or engaged in insightful and experiential thinking, which means, the less time spent engaged in incessant thinking. Those who are suffering will not need to spend years in treatment to fully understand that level of insightful understanding that will fully manage their incessant thinking. This again is because the three fundamentals go beyond and are behind the biology and the psychology, and therefore bypass our normal blueprint (gene-environment-epigenetic) and go straight to the natural blueprint (mind-thought-consciousness).

The question now is how do we make use of our natural blueprint and bypass our normal blueprint to then cease suffering? The answer to this question will be part of subsequent posts.