| Are you often stressed or depressed? Do you get | | | | "It's the thought that counts!" Accept it and move |
| sick frequently? What if there's something you can | | | | on. |
| do to change all of that? Would you spend the time | | | | Step two involves developing concepts of how the |
| and effort to do it? The fact is that there is | | | | mind operates so you can learn to work with it to |
| something you can do to improve your physical, | | | | produce the results you desire. If you can imagine a |
| mental and emotional health - not to mention every | | | | television randomly switching from one channel to the |
| other aspect of your life. Though it is easier said than | | | | next, you have an idea of how the average person's |
| done, all you have to do is learn to control your own | | | | mind works. Most people "channel surf" in their minds. |
| mind. | | | | But, if you see a television behaving in that way, you |
| Consider that your body is a reflection of your mind. | | | | can bet that there's someone holding a remote |
| The thoughts you are aware of (conscious) and | | | | control that's causing the erratic behavior. Whether |
| those thoughts you aren't aware of (unconscious) all | | | | their surfing is the result of boredom and lack of |
| seek expression in your physical form and life. If | | | | concentration, or they're simply sitting on the remote |
| you've thought about this, it's pretty obvious; but | | | | control unconsciously changing the channel, the |
| most people simply don't think about such things. If | | | | outcome is still the same - chaotic signals creating a |
| you haven't ever considered this reality, I'm sure it | | | | chaotic experience. |
| seems far-fetched, unlikely, hard-to-believe or difficult | | | | You hold the remote control to your mind. You can |
| to understand. Nonetheless, this is the truth. This is | | | | use your brain to focus on the signals (thoughts) in |
| how reality works. | | | | your mind that you want to watch on the screen of |
| Coming to grips with the fact that your thoughts | | | | your mind, or the screen of your life. It isn't easy at |
| count is the first step in learning to control your mind. | | | | first; but it is possible. Imagine trying to pick up a |
| It is a difficult step for many; but, if you don't | | | | very heavy weight. You may not be able to at first; |
| understand or believe how your mind shapes and | | | | but, after some period of exercise - where you |
| controls your life, health and body, you won't have | | | | gradually increase the amount of weight you lift - you |
| any reason to focus your time and energy on | | | | will eventually find that you can lift that heavy |
| learning mental discipline. After all, if thoughts are | | | | weight. Where your mind and thoughts are |
| simply things that come and go - without having any | | | | concerned, meditation is the "exercise" that increases |
| affect at all on our lives - why bother learning to | | | | your mental endurance. People meditate so that they |
| control your mind? | | | | can learn to focus for greater and greater periods of |
| If you're religious, consider that all religious icons - in | | | | time - controlling distraction such as stray thoughts or |
| one way or another - have said, "As a man thinketh, | | | | extraneous noise and activity. |
| so it is done unto him." If you're more scientific in the | | | | When you learn to control the thoughts you think, |
| way you approach the world, you should already be | | | | you will be able to control your life, emotions and |
| familiar with Albert Einstein's opinion on the subject - | | | | health. Think about it, if you are stressed or |
| a view shared by quantum physicists all over the | | | | depressed, you're thinking about stressful and |
| world for nearly a century. If your interests are more | | | | depressing things. If you could control your thoughts, |
| practical, or if you are business-minded, then consider | | | | why would you continue to think about depressing |
| the words of Henry Ford, "If you think you can or | | | | things? You can indeed learn to control your life by |
| think you can't, you're right either way." No matter | | | | learning to control the mind. It takes effort, but it's |
| who you are, or what your beliefs, there is someone | | | | worth it. |
| you trust who has hinted at the great secret of life: | | | | |