sunday: april 19th
hello,
hope you are holding up well and mostly importantly staying at home, wherever that is. some of you wanted to me write about something more serious, and i succumb to your desires - i aim to please.
hence today we are going to talk about your mind.
i should probably mention that just because i'm talking about something slightly serious does not mean i'm not going to lean towards my tendency to see the positive and the beautiful depths in everything.
i'd like to start by emphasising on the fact that the mind is simply the most powerful element in each and every one of us. some would say that's what we really are, our mind, our soul. but that's a question we can't answer. we are a culmination of everything we are, everything we do, everything we believe in.
(notice how i just said that it's a question we can't answer and then continued with my vain attempt)
your mind has the power to travel distances you cannot imagine. faster than anything humans will ever come up with. you can think thoughts, you can be with anyone. close your eyes for a second and you can go to any part of the world, be next to anyone, hug your parents, imagine up anything and it'll take you fractions of a second.
taking control of your mind, and understanding the deep roots it has within our lives is key to moving forward in life with success and happiness. it'll change the way you go through events, and milestones and setbacks in your life. time becomes irrelevant, in dealing with situations. when we go through a tough time, we allow ourselves/rather give time to ourselves to fully set our mind straight. and while that is a very fair thing to do, it might have the opposite effect. time is not the end of memories and pain.
let's take a hypothetical situation. all of us have had painful experiences in our lives; heartbreak, betrayal, love, death. typically we would firstly deal with the situation at hand, after which you either completely distance yourself from peers or excessively socialise and then go on this spree of trying to distract yourself from the even that has just happened. rarely does this work. the way to go about this would be to firstly accept that the pain, or the memory it's always going to be within you. it might pop up in your head 20 years later when you're in some random café in a country you didn't think you'd be in, and you might even break down when the memory comes back. but, accept the fact that you're not just going to forget entire events like that. secondly, there is nothing more temporary than a distraction when dealing with situations like this, instead think about what happened, think about the facts of what happened. learn from it. grasp all the knowledge you can, in terms of going forward in life, being happier, love, or business.
once you've harnessed the power to craft the way you think, you have made a huge head-way into life. when people say that we hold ourselves back more than anything else holds us back, this is what we is being talked about. our mind is powerful, I did say that. but without teaching yourself to use that power for the best, it's a weapon waiting to be used against it's own home.
think of the mind as the gas supply in your house, uncontrolled and not taken care of, it could destroy your home. but tame it, and it's going to help you feed the entire house.
everything that happens, happens for a reason. everything. the worst thing that has happened to you? for a reason. nothing ever happens for no reason at all.
The minute you decide you want better for yourself is the minute the entire universe begins to shift in your favour.
source: tumblr
i hope this sunday was worth the read and i hope you're all enjoying reading it. i'm enjoying reading your replies to the emails too. i've been replying to all of them. don't forget to let me know what you'd like me to talk about next.
“The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it’s a world, or a relationship… Everything has its time. And everything ends.”
- The Doctor, Doctor Who
