Guard your mind from negativity influence

Rather than follow every train of thought that is around you, it is more beneficial to be a student. In other words, instead of being a follower be a student of life. Study everything that comes your way and see if you can learn the difference between the substance and the poppy cock. The two are often mixed in ideas and notions that men of this world would want us to consume unquestionably like a yummy dessert. But life should not be like that. Following the crowd without caution can be a mistake; we may end up being where we do not want to be, doing what we do not want to do and there might be no way out. Essentially one aspect of well being that we have to guard jealously is our mind. Don’t let negativity overtake you. Guard your mind and make it a life long decision that negativity and doubt will never have a place in your mind. The ancient scriptures tell us to guard our heart for out of it comes the issues of life.
Our thoughts are very important to our favorable existence on this planet. The thoughts we think affect our attitude and disposition towards everything around us. Our emotional quotient comes out of the sum total of our thoughts. Emotions can either be positive or negative and where they lean towards will also influence our own leaning too. But sometimes, negative emotions about situations and circumstances can lead us into doing positive things! For instance, if you decide that you are disgusted with a harmful situation and it must end and you follow through to put it to an end, then it becomes better than before. You get angry with your state of living and beyond your disgust; you decide that whatever it takes, this must change! Then you take actions that will make it change. Your negative emotions have influenced your thoughts and you have succeeded in piloting them to enable your personality react positively. A man wakes up one day and decides he is sick and tired of living the way he is where he is. He resolves to move into a better neigborhood; more than that, he draws up a practical plan that will enable him to move over a period of time. There is an expression in the English Language: “A bad workman quarrels with his tools”. If he quarrels with those tools and changes them for the better, then the quarrel was worth his while. You have to be the guardian of your own mind because the world with its profound negativity will crush you if you allow it. One approach to situations that are distasteful is to over analyze them with a bid to crushing them and getting something positive out. One question that should dominate our minds whenever we are surrounded by negative circumstances is: “So what can I learn from this?” In many cases we come up with the title: “How not to….” And it becomes a lifetime opportunity to learn something new.
Desire is a good emotion. Someone said habit will take you further than desire. If you desire a situation to change in your life, you must make a habit of working towards that change. There has to be something you can do that will move you away from that undesirable situation. Some more significant that fight, flight or freeze which are the normal reactions. The approach normally should be to consistenly look out for a way of escape. In your sleeping and waking, watching of movies, reading of books, listening to lectures and sermons, the mind should go on an undeterred search. You never know where the answer will come from, but our job is to keep up the search until we find it. The word “until” is very interesting. It speaks of an relentless effort. You are not willing to give up! You have said to yourself: “I will!” Like one speaker proudly remarked: “I will either find a way or make a way, but I am not giving up!” The will of the human being is very powerful. Someone asked the mother of a child who had not started walking: “So how long should we give the baby to walk?” The angry mother responded: “What do you mean? We are not giving up until my baby walks!”
The elite warriors that qualify to be American Navy seals are taken through daunting tests that are designed to stretch mind and body to the limit. Information revealed shows that the characteristics of those who survive and eventually qualify for the rather challenging job are not always those whose bodies have been sculpted by innummerable workouts at the gym. The graduates who are successful are not always the strong physically adabtable people. They are sometimes scrawny and ackward looking. The characteristic that appears to dominate this class of warriors is a strong mind to deal with situations and circumstances they find themselves in. Should the mind crack under pressure? Or should it dig deeper and find the resolve to get out of the intimidating situation. The other part is, does the person striving harder still have some resolve left to look around him and help someone else? That requires a strong mind! The world we live in today is full of ups and downs and it requires a strong mind to get through. A mind full of determination and relentlessness that is guided by the spirit of: “never give up”. We all need some of that. Do you have some?