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If I speak to you well upon a subject you like your mind becomes concentrated upon what I am saying. I draw your mind away from yourself and hold it upon the subject in spite of yourself. Thus our attention is held. Our minds are concentrated upon various things in spite of ourselves. We can not help it.
Thought-control in the initial stage does not mean that there will be no thought in the mind at all. A thoughtless state may be a stupid state. In the initial stage thought-control means developing the capacity deliberately to think good thoughts and to desist from thinking bad or wrong ones.
We can get perfect control of the mind. We must develop the power of detachment. We should put our minds on things they should not draw our minds to them. We are usually forced to concentrate.
To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It can not be done in any other way. In training the mind the first step is to begin with the breathing. Regular breathing puts the body in a harmonious condition and it is there easier' to reach the mind. The mind acts on the body, and the body in its turn acts upon the mind. They act and react upon each other.
Now the mind is in one mood the next moment, perhaps, it is different,changing all the time. The purer the mind, the easier is to control. So we should practice disciplines for the purification of the mind. The easiest method of doing this,however,is cultivating holy company. Mind-control is greatly helped by the practice of meditation, and meditation by mind-control. Methodical control of thought is a great secret in controlling the mind.
Man is growing in knowledge, in power, in happiness. Continuously, we are growing as a race. There is a continuity of mind. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind all there little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean.
Meditation on God is the most effective way of controlling the mind. They both go hand in hand. Unless you meditate, the mind can not be controlled, and unless the mind is controlled, you can not meditate. Those who want to control their minds must not store up ill feelings or grievances or other wrong impulses in the mind, which is used for higher purposes. A time will come when we shall find holy thoughts coming out from within. Control of the conscious mind will not be difficult then.
A healthy mind is much easier to control than an unhealthy or broken mind. We shall notice that when our mind is in a disturbed state. Our breathing becomes faster and irregular. One of the ways of quieting the mind is to regularize the breathing.
We have to seize this unstable mind and drag it from it wanderings and fix it on one idea. Over and over again this must be done. By power of will we must get hold of the mind and make it stop and reflect upon the glory of God. The easiest way to get hold of the mind is to sit quiet and let it drift where it will for a while.
Make no effort to control the thoughts but, watch them and follow them in imagination as they float away. Nothing is more exhausting then wrestling with the mind. The more we are exhausted the more turbulent the mind becomes, and ultimately we are swept away. The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.
Those who believe in God have a distinct advantage over those who do not believe, as far as mind control is concerned. We get potent help for controlling the mind, when faith in God is sincerely cultivated.
A pure mind is easily controlled. But the non-believer will have to work at it the hard and long way.Mind control is greatly helped by the practice of meditation and meditation by mind control. We must beware of a harmful kind of imagination by being truly moral only for this moment, and then the next moment for the next moment and so on.
Believers are at an advantage in controlling the mind. The simplest and surest method of controlling the mind is through love of God. Mind-control is valuable because it leads to the highest blessing-the illumined state of being.
There is no greater blessing in life than a controlled state of mind. Let us do our very best to acquire it, for this will lead us to the greatest of blessings.
Note:- Love God.But if you do not believe in God, then believe in yourself.
If you like it, Please comment on it.
THANK-YOU
If I speak to you well upon a subject you like your mind becomes concentrated upon what I am saying. I draw your mind away from yourself and hold it upon the subject in spite of yourself. Thus our attention is held. Our minds are concentrated upon various things in spite of ourselves. We can not help it.
Thought-control in the initial stage does not mean that there will be no thought in the mind at all. A thoughtless state may be a stupid state. In the initial stage thought-control means developing the capacity deliberately to think good thoughts and to desist from thinking bad or wrong ones.
We can get perfect control of the mind. We must develop the power of detachment. We should put our minds on things they should not draw our minds to them. We are usually forced to concentrate.
To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It can not be done in any other way. In training the mind the first step is to begin with the breathing. Regular breathing puts the body in a harmonious condition and it is there easier' to reach the mind. The mind acts on the body, and the body in its turn acts upon the mind. They act and react upon each other.
Now the mind is in one mood the next moment, perhaps, it is different,changing all the time. The purer the mind, the easier is to control. So we should practice disciplines for the purification of the mind. The easiest method of doing this,however,is cultivating holy company. Mind-control is greatly helped by the practice of meditation, and meditation by mind-control. Methodical control of thought is a great secret in controlling the mind.
Man is growing in knowledge, in power, in happiness. Continuously, we are growing as a race. There is a continuity of mind. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind all there little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean.
Meditation on God is the most effective way of controlling the mind. They both go hand in hand. Unless you meditate, the mind can not be controlled, and unless the mind is controlled, you can not meditate. Those who want to control their minds must not store up ill feelings or grievances or other wrong impulses in the mind, which is used for higher purposes. A time will come when we shall find holy thoughts coming out from within. Control of the conscious mind will not be difficult then.
A healthy mind is much easier to control than an unhealthy or broken mind. We shall notice that when our mind is in a disturbed state. Our breathing becomes faster and irregular. One of the ways of quieting the mind is to regularize the breathing.
We have to seize this unstable mind and drag it from it wanderings and fix it on one idea. Over and over again this must be done. By power of will we must get hold of the mind and make it stop and reflect upon the glory of God. The easiest way to get hold of the mind is to sit quiet and let it drift where it will for a while.
Make no effort to control the thoughts but, watch them and follow them in imagination as they float away. Nothing is more exhausting then wrestling with the mind. The more we are exhausted the more turbulent the mind becomes, and ultimately we are swept away. The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.
Those who believe in God have a distinct advantage over those who do not believe, as far as mind control is concerned. We get potent help for controlling the mind, when faith in God is sincerely cultivated.
A pure mind is easily controlled. But the non-believer will have to work at it the hard and long way.Mind control is greatly helped by the practice of meditation and meditation by mind control. We must beware of a harmful kind of imagination by being truly moral only for this moment, and then the next moment for the next moment and so on.
Believers are at an advantage in controlling the mind. The simplest and surest method of controlling the mind is through love of God. Mind-control is valuable because it leads to the highest blessing-the illumined state of being.
There is no greater blessing in life than a controlled state of mind. Let us do our very best to acquire it, for this will lead us to the greatest of blessings.
Note:- Love God.But if you do not believe in God, then believe in yourself.
If you like it, Please comment on it.
THANK-YOU
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