Mastering the Mind

An extract from the Introduction

You may have read “The 7 Proven Steps” before buying this e-book. In that e-book, seven key steps are described as being key to personal growth. This e-book, “Mastering the Mind”, seeks to go further and deeper into these key steps, exploring why they are so important and offering you lots of more profound insights and ideas for application.

In the field of personal development, core ideas often need to be explored over and over again. Just to read them may only give a superficial understanding. To really get the benefit, you will need to go over and over them again, apply them in your lives, learn from them, see where they work for you and where you get stuck. Then revisiting them gives you a chance to make a breakthrough to a deeper level of awareness.

I think one should beware the attitude that, because you have read this before somewhere, it is not new and therefore does not merit reading about again. Yet it is that deeper reflection on old wisdoms that pays the greatest results. I would also suggest that the simplest are the most powerful.

Why master your mind?

What you think, you are. What goes on in your mind, plays itself out in your life. What you are aware of or focus on, grows and becomes more important, both what you want and what you do not want. Thinking that this is what you do not want makes it larger in your life. That is the Law of Attraction. What you think about, you draw to you, both positively and negatively. So, you need to learn how to manage and master your mind.

Mastery of mind enables us to focus on what we want, to create that which we most want. From a personal and spiritual growth perspective, that is when we can focus one-pointedly on what we most aspire to that is beneficial for our higher selves, such as the achievement of our potential, the realisation of inner contentment, the discovery of lasting love and happiness, and so on. The ability to master our minds enables us also to manage our “ego” selves, the limited part of us that so often takes us where we don’t want to go and disrupts our contentment, satisfaction and ability to achieve what is highest in our endeavours.

It is perfectly possible to centre your awareness, to so manage your mind that you can focus one-pointedly on that is which uplifts you and enables you to feel joy and contentment.

Our minds have the potential for us to experience pure heaven or pure hell right now. We don’t have to die to get that. It’s already here right now.

What this e-book teaches, supported by the others in the series, is the basic skills to enable you to distinguish between the one and the other in how you choose to live your life and how to apply yourself to experience “heaven”. The rest will be down to you, reflecting on and revisiting these concepts over and over again and above all deliberately practicing and applying them in your lives till bit by bit, and then in bigger steps and then by breakthroughs, you get to experience more “heaven” in your life.

In this e-book, we will start by exploring a range of key tools in developing self-awareness as a key first step to managing the mind, and then we will introduce other tools for managing your state of mind so that you may achieve more contentment, equilibrium and purposefulness in your life. These methods may be used in tackling many of the issues raised in our whole e-book program. The aim is to work towards a steady state of centeredness where you are not caught up in what occurs and are not thrown off course. Additionally you can use these methods to recover your equilibrium after some upset or irritation. In that steady state, you can move to experiencing more joy and effectiveness in your life. In fact you can make them a practice if that is what you prefer.

They are very simple, simple even to the point of obviousness, and yet so simple that we’ve become very, very skilled at ignoring them, but in their implications they are very profound. Bear in mind that in reality you are simply re-membering old skills, since at our core we are already complete. We just need to see through the veil of our ego to the truth of that, each in our own way, according to our own path in life.

Contents

• Introduction        
• Awareness: the foundation stone for growth    
• The present moment: the point where you can shift your awareness       
• Taking responsibility: taking control    
• Choosing your reality: moving on to another way of being        
• The Ego and the Real Self: knowing yourself  
• Meditation: developing your still centre of awareness          
• The Will: the intentional focus to change your experience         
• Having vision and purpose: developing your direction  

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