Most people keep thinking the same kind of thoughts, and visualize the same mental images in an unconscious automatic manner. This means that they keep viewing the same movie in their minds, and consequently, go on creating and living the same kind of life.
You can change the thoughts and images in your mind, which is equivalent to inserting a new disc into the video player of the mind. Since thoughts create events and circumstances, by changing the habitual thoughts, life's events and circumstances change too.
Most people don't know or don't believe that it is possible to change their way of thinking. The reality of this possibility has never occurred to them. However, there are also people who have the knowledge and make the effort to control their mind.
If they persist in their efforts to become more conscious of their thinking process, and attempt to control and filter the contents of their minds, they realize in a practical and direct way that their thoughts are creative and possess power.
Controlling and understanding the thinking process, also leads to the ability to silence the mind, which is a higher stage that very few know about, and fewer take practical steps to achieve. If and when one reaches this goal he realizes that he is not his mind or his thoughts, but something beyond them.
The ability of silencing the mind is the key to finding the button that turns the mind on and off, in accordance with our will. When we are able to turn it off at will, we experience serenity of mind, strength, confidence and happiness. When the mind and its thoughts are quiet, we are able to use the mind in a most effective way.
Silencing the thoughts and the incessant, tiring, consuming chatter of the mind allows us to enjoy peace and happiness. At this stage, we become the boss of the mind.
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Conquering the Mind
A strong power of concentration makes it easier to free the mind from thoughts. When there are no thoughts to distract, one becomes fully aware and conscious of the true eternal inner being. This is the goal of spiritual seekers, yogis and saints. This is the secret goal beyond every tradition and religion. This secret is yours to live and enjoy, if you strive adopt it in your life.
When You Master Your Mind, You Master Your World
The mind is responsible for everything that happens. It is the creator of everything in the world. The world is dependent on the mind for its existence. When in deep sleep with no dreams, are you conscious of the world? Is someone in a swoon, conscious of the world? No, consciousness of the world happens only when the mind is active. In sleep and in deep meditation, when the mind is quiet, the world seems to disappear.
When you are able to silence the mind, you free yourself of negative habits and attitudes. Then, the mind cannot influence your moods, your behavior, and the way you feel.
When you can silence the mind, at least for a little while, you realize that you are not the mind. It is a sort of energy that occupies your attention incessantly. For someone, who encounters this idea for the first time, it might sound weird and silly. Someone who has practiced meditation for some time, or is conversant with the Eastern philosophies, will understand and accept these words.
From this inner silence, you can look at the mind, understand what it is, and come to know its nature and how and why it works.
While working towards this inner state, the mind usually suggests all kinds of reasons and excuses why it is better not to bring it under control. It wants to be free and roam wherever it likes. It believes that if it is silenced, life will cease to be. It cannot accept that life can go on without its incessant chatter and inner dialogues.
This is false logic, as the mind cannot know what is beyond it. The moment it is silenced it does not participate in what happens after this silence. How can it experience a state in which it is absent? It cannot think about a state it has never experienced.
There is no vacuum in nature. When the mind is made quiet, something "new" steps in. It is the Universal Consciousness, Spirit, the creative power, your "inner I". You can call it whatever you want. It is a power that has always existed, and it is in us, it is us. It is our true Consciousness, which we have forgotten.
The Power of Thoughts
If you keep thinking about difficulties, fears and failure your life will mirror these thoughts.
If you keep thinking about your current circumstances you will keep recreating them.
Most people get caught in this way of thinking, and consequently, attract into their lives the same kind of events and circumstances over and over again.
You can change your thoughts, and can choose the thoughts you want. Doing so will change your life.You can, right now, start painting new, beautiful, and positive images in your mind.
You can refuse to look at the old pictures and scenes that fill your mind.
You can look at the mental pictures of your choice, even if your actual circumstances are very different from these mental images.
you can choose, which film to play in the projection room of your mind.
You can choose, which pictures and painting to hang in the inner room of your mind.
Does a feeling of power surge through you now, as you read these lines? You can master your life!
Thoughts are the inner strings that pull circumstances and situations. You can be the one pulling these strings and make your life happier and more satisfying. When you are the boss of your mind, you have the power to improve your inner and emotional life, your material and financial status, and your spiritual awareness.
Some people make a mediocre change in their lives; some go further, and make greater changes. How far you go is dependent on your ability to choose your thoughts and change the contents of your mind.
Some people, aspire higher, not just to change their thoughts, but to find the source of their thoughts, and discover the button that turns it on and off. If they are successful, they unfold the secret that many have sought down the ages.
Becoming the boss of your mind enables you to think about what you want, when you want to, and stop being influenced by outside forces.
In its higher degree, this ability takes you beyond the mind, and then you can see the mind as it is, a tool for your use. You will be able to experience a higher state of consciousness, about which all the spiritual traditions of the world have always taught about, and toward which they pointed.
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Reference: Remez Sasson
www.successconsciousness.com