Imagine yourself having a fight with your romantic partner. The tension of the situation makes your limbic system run at full throttle and you become flooded with stress hormones like cortisol and adrenalin. The high levels of these chemicals suddenly make you so damn angry, that you burst out in front of your partner saying, “I wish you die, so that I can have some peace in my life”. Given the stress of the situation through highly active limbic system, your PFC loses its freedom to take the right decision and you burst out with foul language in front of your partner, that may ruin your relationship. In simple terms due to your mental instability, you lost your free will to make the right decision. But when the conversation is over, and you relax for a while, your stress hormone levels come down to normal, and you regain your usual cheerful state of mind. Immediately, your PFC starts analyzing the explosive conversation you had with your partner. Healthy activity of the entire frontal lobes, especially the PFC suddenly overwhelms you with a feeling of guilt. Your brain makes you realize, that you have done something devilish. As a result, now you find yourself making the willful decision of apologizing to your partner and making up to him or her, no matter how much effort it takes, because your PFC comes up the solution that it is the healthiest thing to do for your personal life. From this you can see, that what you call free will is something that is not consistent. It changes based on your mental health. Mental instability or illness, truly cripples your free will. And the healthier your frontal lobes are, the better you can take good decisions. And the most effective way to keep your frontal lobes healthy is to practice some kind of meditation. Abhijit Naskar
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Just like many other animals, cats are very much dependent on their owners. They are very active when they are in your home, but when they are out, they are quite passive. When you are not around, the cat will try to find food on its own. Your presence in the house makes it feel relaxed and safe.

So when you leave your house, the cat will feel deeply upset because it was in a position of comfort when you were around. But there is one more advantage in having a cat in your house. It makes you work harder because, when the cat is hungry, it demands for food all the time.

It starts making noise and wakes up its owners just to have some food. The cat will start doing things that will irritate its owners so that they will have to feed it again. This way it creates a sense of responsibility in its owners because they feel that their job of taking care of the cat is not done properly if they do not feed it properly.

The cat seems to be able to sense when its owner is not at home so it makes sure that its owner feels guilty because of leaving the cat alone at home.

Source: What Is Mind?

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