Impressions
On deeper examination a majority of your ideas about yourself, your fears, feelings and impressions are based on those of your parents, or closest caregivers, a bundle of impressions absorbed onto the white cloth - your innocent state - of natural bliss, joy and wonder. Gradually, we see ourselves as the bundle of impressions, and our subsequent behaviours, and forget all about our deeper nature.
It can be challenging to release those ideas and impressions from our mind and nervous system using the mind, in its current state, alone - the equivalent of solving the problem at the level at which it was created. However, when we take our mind to that deeper layer, reminding ourselves of that white cloth below all the impressions, then slowly we reclaim this state and allow the impressions and fears to be rinsed out of the cloth.
