Only You Can Control Your Mind
Only You Can Control Your Mind
A part of the human experience is the mind, your mind.
Your mind can be the most creative and influential tool that you possess, or it can be the source of mind wrenching and painful anxiety.
And, although especially when you are trapped in the throes of fear, worry, and stress it may seem to be a force that is greater than you, you and only you have the power to use your thoughts to empower you, or let anxiety, fear, and worry destroy you.
Recently, I read that anxiety is the most significant problem from which people suffer. Yet, anxiety is a problem of the mind and emotions. Anxiety is a problem that is entirely self-generated. Anxiety is a trap of your mind blended with a strong dose of fear.
If you suffer from anxiety, you may think it is something that just happens, but anxiety is a result of what you are thinking and feeling.
You may also believe that your thoughts and your feelings just happen, and are beyond your control, but that is simply not true. What you think is within your power to control.
Anxiety is produced by the content of your thoughts and then enhanced by your fears.
– Genevieve Gerard
For over five thousand years and throughout the ageless teachings on meditation, learning to calm, and control the content of your mind has been the goal of meditation.
In the teachings of the Buddha, as he engaged in his search for enlightenment, he is reported to have described the human mind as being like a bunch of drunken monkeys.
Ancient schools of meditation refer to the “chattering of the mind” as “Chitta.” Therefore, I believe, quieting and gaining mastery over your mind “Chitta” is the way to win mastery over any anxiety or fear you may have.
Consider if you will how the content of your thoughts impacts your anxiety. Thoughts of worry become laced with fear especially when you let your mind engage in “what if thoughts.” You can spin out thousands of “what if scenarios” that will fuel your anxiety. What if it doesn’t work out, what if they don’t like me, what if I never get over my fear of __________, what if I never do anything with my life? These “what if” thoughts can run in the background of your mind creating anxiety and negative thought-forms.
Take five minutes observation and let me guide you through the first steps to reduce your “what if” fears and anxiety with this simple exercise.
An Anti-Anxiety Exercise
Set a timer for five minutes.
Get a piece of paper out and for the next five minutes count and record how many times your mind starts a thought with the “what if” words.
Don’t worry about what the content of the what if thought is. Just count the number of times you lead into thought with “what if.” If you notice a particular “what if” thought is repetitive, and for most of us there will be several “what if” thoughts that repeat themselves during your five minutes, record the content of that thought.
At the end of the exercise stop and look at the number of times your “mind chatter” engaged in imagining what you fear could happen or might happen.
Once you have made that count, take the second step by noticing the content of your fears. Realizing that the “what ifs” are not something that is real or that has ever happened. They are only creations of your fears and imagination.
Noticing this makes it possible to begin to gain mastery over your mind, and by extension gain mastery over your life.
As the second step of this exercise, I suggest you continue to pay attention to the content of your thoughts for a few more minutes from a perspective of what I call the detached observer. When you notice a “what if” thought that contains circumstance of what you fear rather than what you want, pause, consider the thought and edit it, change it, revise it, and reframe it to what you do want.
Because your thoughts have power, it is crucial for your personal happiness that you free your mind from worries and fears. You are the creator of your reality because the Universe takes its creative power from your thoughts.
That makes your thoughts very important.
Gaining mastery over the content of your mind is the way to empower you to free yourself from anxiety and fear and more importantly, live your dreams and be happy. Paying attention to the content of your thoughts and imaginings is the way you can change and heal your life.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peal
Your thoughts contain your creative power, and they are available only to you. Nobody can do it for you, and nobody can do it to you. By understanding this, you claim your power to live your dreams and your deepest desires. Ponder on this. You are the director of your life.
Learning to quiet the negative input of your fears begins the empowering process of mind-mastery. You must begin by noticing the content of your mind chatter and then choose to take control of it.
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
– Marcus Aurelius
You alone have the power to unlock your mind. Your mind is more powerful than you imagine. Your mind activates your creative power. What you choose to create with that power is a part of your free-will.
It is essential to understand this important fact because it is by using the power of your mind to create the life of your dreams and desires that you open yourself to the full potential of what it means to be a human being.
You are created to live your life in active co-creation with the Creator. Your happiness, your sorrow, your joys, and your challenges are all within your creative power through the power of your mind.
What you create through that power is your choice. This creative power is a part of the mystery of the miracle of creation when a spark of Divine Light (your Soul) joined with the creative process of fertilization that resulted in your birth. Yes, you are a physical being, but I also know you are a Spiritual being, a creator of life in harmony and cooperation with the creator of all of life.
Your thoughts have the power to bring energy into manifestation.
– Genevieve Gerard
That creative process occurs with thought. A thought, every thought, is a part of that creative process. Your life force and every thought-form is energy and energy is subject to the Universal Principle of Life. One of the Laws of the Universe is that “energy follows thought.”
The challenge with this law is that energy follows thought without judgment about the content of the thought. There is no safety mechanism to make the energy follow only positive thoughts that bring about what you want or desire. You and only you are that safety mechanism as you learn to control your mind and direct the content of your thoughts.
That is a great freedom and a great power. However, if you are spending that power on worrying, being fearful, anxiously projecting through “what if” this (bad thing) or “what if” that (bad thing) can happen, you are using that power against yourself.
If you don’t want to create your worst fears, then you need to learn to harness this fantastic creative power by learning to control your mind.
The simple exercise listed above is a tool you can use to start to help you gain control over the power of your mind. Don’t forget, to live the life you desire, the life of your dreams, living in the now and controlling the thoughts of your mind is essential.
Letting your Chitta and mind chatter float willy-nilly out into the Universe as an instruction manual for your life is wasting the power you were granted when the spark of Divine Light (your Soul) merged with the creation of your life.
Because there is always free will, and you always have the choice to create your fears or create your dreams I ask you to understand that only you can control your mind. From that understanding, I encourage you to harness that power and use it for you to transform your life.
Below I list some other articles and a guided meditation I have written to help cleanse and empower you. Remember, it is your life. This life is your adventure. You can claim this power.
Namaste,
Genevieve
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Last Updated 10-09-2019
About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”
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Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.
Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.” Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.
Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.
In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.
It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.
Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.
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