The greatest mystery in all of creation is the human mind. The late President of the United States, John F. Kennedy described man's mind as "the most extra-ordinary computer of all". This evaluation is based on the complex nature and working mechanism of the mind. The brain which the mind uses is known by scientists to have over 10 billion neurons or nerve cells in the brain's cerebral cortex, intricately interwoven and installed in an orderliness that would baffle any electronics genius. The tiny brain of a child of four, for instance, is said to be more powerful than any computer designed by man. This is demonstrated in the child's ability to utilize common sense or in exercising judgment. The brain's five basic functions of touch, taste, smell, hearing and seeing are normally taken for granted. But are you aware that beyond these five physical functions, there is an extra-ordinary quality associated with the brain? Dr J. B. Rhine, a famous American psychologist, successfully conducted experiments to prove that telepathy and intuitive inspiration are all part of our brainpower. It is this extra-ordinary quality of the brain and its link with the human mind that is discussed here. This quality confers on man the ability to create, and creation is man's so-called godly attribute. But how do you create? The answer is simple. You create through your mind using your thoughts. Rest assured that you can use your mind to create anything you desire'the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly'anything at all. That is the reason why you must learn to control your thoughts because of the irrepressible nature of the human mind. MIND POWER at work here. Dr Steve Pink of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had also made an interesting observation. Today's computers are acquiring more and more processing power, he asserted, but even the most powerful computer cannot compare with the brain of the little child mentioned earlier. This is indeed an astonishing phenomenon! No computer has been known either to re-write its programme or regenerate itself with the passage of time. A computer programme would be required to carry out any such needed adjustments using newly coded instructions or commands. But with the brain, an organ through which the mind expresses itself, such adjustments are achieved automatically all through the individual's life. The brain regenerates itself. It can safely be stated without contradiction that the most advanced computers are primitive devices when compared to the human brain and mind. Have you considered the system that makes it possible for you to remember new names and new faces year in and year out? Can you imagine the size of the computer memory disk that would have made this possible'imponderable, you might say. Brian Tracy in his fast selling book, "Maximum Achievement", has likened the human mind to the Central processing Unit (CPU) of a large computer network, which can be accessed, influenced and programmed by operators from several sources. Any new information or data whether true or false is taken in and alters operations in every other area. The subconscious mind is the most critical region of the CPU of this network and your main task is to programme yourself so that what you think, feel and believe become the mental equivalent of exactly what you wish to experience and enjoy practically and physically. In other words, you must paint a clear bright picture of who and what you want to be in mind, so that this picture will be etched on your conscious from where it is transmitted on to the subconscious to be acted upon for concretization. All this in a nutshell describes the mechanism of the MIND POWER philosophy outlined in a very simple and readable form in the Success through Mind Power book. Author: Michael Obi Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_Obi |
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Mind Power - Mind Power - The Greatest Computer
Mind Power - The World's Illusion, Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenments
The world around us looks so real, and to proclaim that it is only an illusion may seem sheer nonsense. How can it be? Yet, it is possible to accept this idea. I believe you agree with me, if I say that the body is some sort of an extraordinary machine. It is made up of a combination of materials, but it functions as a unit. Can you say confidently that you are the body? Are you the hair that is cut and thrown away when you go to the hairdresser? Are you your fingers nails, nose, legs or thighs? The body changes through the years, are you this changing form? Can you say that you are a particular thought? Many thoughts pass through the mind each day. They are like a movie that passes in front of your eyes. Sometimes the movie is interesting, and sometimes it is boring. Sometimes it engenders happy feelings sometimes it causes the rise of sadness or anger. Do you remember a thought that you thought an hour ago? Yesterday? How can these thoughts be the real you? You think them, but you are not them. The same thing goes for your feelings. It is not true to say, "I am angry", "I am sad", and "I am happy". It is truer to say, "I am letting now a feeling of anger, sadness or happiness to occupy my consciousness for a while". You, the basic you, stay the same, while feelings come and go. You are not your feelings, which change constantly. Then who are you? The mind cannot describe what is beyond it, because it has not been there. It can understand mental descriptions, which only give it a clue of the reality beyond it. To know who you really are, you have to transform your awareness beyond the mind. You are beyond the physical body, feelings and thoughts. You are the eternal, impersonal consciousness that created and infused life into this conglomeration of body, feelings and thoughts that you call "me". This homogenous, indivisible, complete Consciousness manifests in everything. It is the life principle of the manifestation that you consider to be yourself. The manifestation, which is the combination of body, thoughts and feelings, is nothing without this life principle. We can certainly say that the Consciousness is the only real thing, and every manifestation is just a creation, and therefore not permanent, eternal or real in the sense that it can exist by itself. Can you become aware of this great Consciousness? Yes, of course. You are it. You are letting thoughts and feelings cloud it. If you constantly pay attention to the outside world, then it becomes very real for you. If you find a way to detach yourself from it, and turn your attention within, to the Consciousness beyond the mind, you can tear off the screen of illusion, and live consciously in this great Consciousness. Silence of the mind is the prerequisite to awakening spiritually. Only when the mind is silenced and there are no thoughts, you realize who you really are - the vast, eternal Consciousness. This is what has been called spiritual awakening or enlightenment. This is what yogis, saints and seekers on the spiritual path seek. It is here and now. All you have to do is change the way you view the world. You have to learn to dis-identify yourself with your body, feelings and thoughts, and develop true detachment. Through constant meditation the mind is made quiet. Then, from deep inside will raise a great silence, peace, life, consciousness and being. This is the real you. This is enlightenment. The way to spiritual awakening is open for everyone. Only attachment and erroneous thoughts and concepts hide it. It can come suddenly, and it can come gradually. The funny thing is that you do not have to search for it, and you do not need to reach anywhere. All you have to do is dive within with a quiet mind, become aware of this inner, eternal underlying consciousness and stay there. When you are spiritually awakened, your life will probably go on as before. You may teach and you may not. You may write about your experiences and you may not. You will still have to eat, sleep and take care of the physical life, though you know through your experience that everything is just an illusion. If you view a movie with detachment, you may enjoy it, yet you will not be moved by what happens in it. You know it is just a movie, the projection of light and color on a screen. You see it, but it does not cause thoughts or feelings to arise. It is the same with the world. The world is not real. You, your real "I", live in an undifferentiated eternity, yet the body seems to continue to live in a created world. When you are spiritually awakened nothing can influence you anymore. You are beyond life and death. You will still have to provide food, clothes and a house for the body, yet, whatever you do, you will do with inner detachment. You may go on acting intensively in the world, yet remaining uninvolved in consciousness, as if outside of the world. The power of the mind creates your world - the illusion you are living in. Thoughts and imagination are creative, and they mold this illusion. As your thoughts are, so is your world. When you awaken to your Consciousness, your mind will be quiet, but it will be focused, and you will be able to use it more effectively. When you awaken to your real Consciousness, and manage to stay in it more or less permanently, you may disregard the power of the mind, or you may use it to mold your illusion - your world, though by now you stop believing in its reality. As the "real world" continues to be seen, why not help yourself cope with the material necessities by using the creative power of the mind? You can choose the images to be reflected on the screen of your world. The thoughts you focus on become your "reality". This is the secret of creative visualization. With your mind power you change the appearance of the illusion. What you do is just create a different illusion. You may say that when you awaken spiritually, you will be beyond the world's illusion, and material things will not matter any more. This is true, but yet, the illusion has to be lived. You have to eat, pay bills and take care of the body. It is true, you will approach these matters in a completely different way, but you still need to take care of them. Even an enlightened master has to eat, drink and sleep. Going beyond the mind, beyond the illusion of the world, and awakening spiritually, puts a great power and responsibility in your hands, for then you have the power to influence the world. Your awakened consciousness is an immnese power that can stimulate the spiritual awakening in others. As all Consciousness is one, calming down your mind, and becoming conscious of your Consciousness, influences the whole of Consciousness. Posted By Emmanuel Ayomide Praise |
Mind Power - Create your Destiny - Mind Power
'AHAM BRAHMASMI' (Sanskrit phrase which means ' I am god myself ) This is the ultimate state of Hindu Philosophy, where self realisation makes everyone of us understand that, in fact, we are the embodiment of God. Till such time that happens, we can try and use the power of GOD within ourselves, to create our own destiny, for the prosperity of everyone, including ourselves. When I was very young, my dad used to say that ' A man destined to be hanged cannot be drowned'. Obviously to impress upon the fact that what is fated will happen and we have no choice. I used to wonder that when everything is fated and destined, what is the pleasure in life? And why anyone should take responsibility for good or bad deeds? Why should God select people for differential treatment? There are evidently no answers, unless we accept that we have the choice and power to create our own destiny. Having concluded that part, I started wondering as to what is the limitations of our independence in decision making and plan our destiny? This is a really difficult question to answer, with our limited knowledge. But I am sure that WE HAVE THE POWER TO CREATE OUR FUTURE AND OUR DESTINY. I have been wondering as to how we could possibly achieve this ! There are books which deal with the power of MIND and the possibilities of tapping the unlimited potential of our subconscious mind to achieve goals in materialistic and philosophical goals. The methods are not very difficult to follow, if we BELIEVE them. Yes, I am now a strong believer that I can create my destiny for the future. Even Palmistry suggests that our minds and thoughts have strong impact that the lines in our hands can be changed. Anyway, for any logical conclusion, one should have knowledge. But for belief, there is no need for logic or knowledge. It is the simple of way to start. Perhaps, in a crude way, the computers and God are similar in so many aspects. While God connects to everyone and empowers him, host server connects all computers and empowers them. Life may probably be equated to a software game, where the limitations are set in the software, we have the freedom to play the game to our expertise and WIN THE GAME OR GET DEFEATED. The software does not interfere with our freedom to play, though the limitations are set. Probably our life is also a software programme, with limitations set and the freedom to play to our choice. Depending upon the result, we move over to the next stage or continue to play the same stage again and again. Coming back to realities, our present goals are very much into the materialistic world and our aims are to improve them to the extent possible. This, of course, does not spoil our ultimate aim which could come later when we become more matured in life. With an auspicious start, let us move ahead and create our own destiny. Warm Regards Ramani Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ramani_Iyer |
Mind Power - The Power of Reality
Dear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out. We honor your presence. Great day to you all on this magnificent day to be alive. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. The Power of Reality The Power of Reality in the most optimistic way possible is to be in reality with one's Being. How noble of us to blame our reality for the reality that really is! And how unkind of us to blame our reality based on our own conscious decisions. The Power of Reality is really in our own consciousness once and for all as we choose to be aware of our own choices. The choices and decisions we make Now truly impact our lives on every level. Our decisions made in the Now create our reality Now and in the future. Wherever our future is! The Power of Reality is in our own hands. And yes we have brought some unfinished business from our past lives in to the present to clear and to create freedom within. However our reality every moment is what we allow and create it to be. With all of our hardships, chaos, struggles and challenges we can in fact create realities in which we can accept our present life and move forward with acceptance. Have you ever dealt with a situation where all of your energy was drawn out of you? This situation was so hectic in your mind that you did everything in your power to resist it and you found yourself ever so tired and exhausted. Now on the other hand, have you ever experienced a situation where you were confronted with an issue and you chose to accept it right away? You chose to deal with it with calmness and stood tall as you were able to persevere through it with dignity and honor. And what an honor it was to be able to deal and surpass this situation with acceptance. You created your reality as you chose to deal with it. We create our realities by the way we listen to people. By the way we communicate with people. By the way we approach people. By the way we perceive people. We create our realities by the way we deal with our circumstances. We create our realities by the way we interpret our challenges. We create our realities by the way we perceive our options. We create our realities by the way we see ourselves in our minds eye. We create our realities by the way we think about ourselves. We create our realities by the way we feel about ourselves. We create our realities by the way we engage in life with life. We create our realities with our own Being. If we smile more we create realities where we are smiled at. Whereas, when we frown we create realities where we are approached in such a way that is Not uplifting for both parties. As if we are here to draw attention to the unwanted instead of the wanted. Let us start today by creating our realities by the True power within us. Let us Create from the Power of our Truth. Let us Create from the Power of our essence. That is with the Power of our Faith in ourselves and our abilities to transform our lives inside and out. If truly a change, a healing and a transformation is your desire, Know that you are in no way a victim of life. You are in fact a Powerful Delightful Caring essence of the light of the Universe. And with this absolute truth all things are possible. The time has come to simply let go and put behind the old way of thinking and start anew. A new beginning as you stand tall Right where you are physically and spiritually and make a declaration to your true self. A declaration such as you will start to create the realty in which you desire to live in and live by. And know that you shall prosper through your declaration. You shall take the appropriate actions to achieve your goals inside and out and you shall set an example for your reality. For truly with your Power to create your reality all things are possible. Use your mind power to create such a life that you shall simply be with awe with your abundant self. And you shall solely want to give of your True Self on to others as you will be filled and fulfilled with the light within you. Go forth knowing that the Universe is in total support of you day and night. For you are truly lovely and insightful inside and out. Bless you and so it is. I love you. I love you. I love you. Please feel free to share and forward these Insights with your family, friends, teachers, students, co-workers and enemies to support others in creating their reality with the Power within. May the love and light of God and the Universe surround, protect and heal you, your loved ones and the planet earth. With Love, Gratitude and Respect, Michelle Morovaty Truly, With God All Things Are Possible ? Copyright 2007 Spirituality Inside and Out, LLC ABOUT MICHELLE Michelle Morovaty is an Intuitive Spiritual Teacher and Healer. She has healed herself from many challenges including Lupus CNS, a car accident and divorce. She uses her intuition and universal guidance to assist people through the healing process. For more about Michelle and her healing sessions see http://www.spiritualityinsideandout.com and for her guided meditation CD's see http://www.insidenow.com Article Source:http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michelle_Morovaty |