The Mind Is A Mental Solar System

The forces that govern everything.
Human stress responses are localised expressions of universal laws.

The mind is essentially a mental solar system, with thoughts orbiting within our empty essence. There is a tug-of-war between the forces which govern us, and consciousness.

Fight: Confronting a threat head-on. This can manifest as aggression, assertiveness, or a physical/verbal urge to fight back.

Flight: Escaping or avoiding a threat. We might feel a strong urge to run away, fidget, or withdraw socially.

Freeze: Becoming immobile or playing dead. This happens when the brain determines that neither fighting nor fleeing is a viable option. 

In physics, attraction is the force that pulls entities together. Biologically, this manifests as fight, moving toward a threat to confront it.

Repulsion is the flight response – the biological drive to create distance and escape a perceived threat.

Inertia – Newton’s First Law states that an object at rest stays at rest. The freeze response is a state of attentive immobility where the body becomes paralysed or stuck, essentially mimicking a state of inertia to avoid detection. 

“As above, so below; as below, so above” takes on a new meaning.
Just as the macrocosm (planets) follows these laws,
so does the microcosm (the human mind). 

Attraction: The Gravitational Mind
Planets: Gravity is the fundamental force of attraction that holds planets in orbit around a central sun. Without it, systems would fly apart.
Mind: Psychologically, this is the fight response—a movement toward an object of focus, whether to confront it or appease it to ensure survival. It also manifests as the ‘Law of Attraction’, where the mind’s dominant frequencies draw similar experiences toward it. 

Repulsion: The Centrifugal Mind
Planets: While not a fundamental force like gravity, it is the swing away from a centre that prevents a planet from simply falling into the sun.
Mind: This is the flight response – the biological urge to create distance and repel oneself from a perceived threat, mirroring the physical forces which keep celestial bodies at a safe distance from one another. 


Inertia: The Stationary Mind
Planets: Planets would fly in a straight line forever if gravity didn’t constantly ‘bend’ their path into an orbit.
Mind: This is the freeze response – a state of attentive immobility where the mind and body become stuck or paralysed by overwhelming stress. It is the psychological equivalent of an object unable to change its current state of ‘rest’, despite the chaos around it. 

How do we escape these forces?

By actually seeing and experiencing through the clarity of pure consciousness, rather than the thinking mind. Realising these forces which are weighing sentient beings down activates compassion.

Nothing is at rest; we realise that there are repeating patterns at all levels.
Everything moves and vibrates at different frequencies, fast and slow.
Everything has an opposite, flowing in cycles.
Every cause has its effect; nothing happens by chance.
Everything has masculine and feminine principles on all planes.