You mind functions like a bedroom and to me the most important room in a house is where you sleep. Statements like 'As you make your bed, so you sleep on it' tells us the importance of keeping our sleeping area neat and clean. The mind is where the issues of life arises e.g. thoughts, love, peace, desires, self-control, motivation, faith, hope, etc. Please note that the most important things of life are those we do not see, and are connected to the mind.
Every action has its origin from the mind, and most often we are warned to take care of our thoughts because they become actions. Just like how neat or dirty your bedroom can affect your sleep pattern, whatever we allow to occupy our minds can either build us up or pull us down. 'This explains the reason behinds nightmares after engaging the mind in a scary movie'. Positive thoughts are refreshing and helps nurture the mind while Negative thoughts trails and hunts the originator. Having negative thoughts is similar to allowing a wild animal into your bedroom, which eventually won't let you sleep and may end up destroying you or your properties. Daily and most often we have a huge task in checking and filtering what we allow as thoughts.
Thoughts do build up, and whenever we continue in a line of thought we are simply adding energy to it. Just like heavy or dark clouds builds up for a rain, so do continuous thoughts build up. The duty also lies on us to diffuse such thoughts if they are negative.
Some people snap out or rebuke immediately each time the recognize a pattern of negative thoughts. In short, the first step to becoming a Child of light is by constantly check your thoughts and make sure they align with that of your Heavenly Father. We are what we think, and the mind and thoughts are powerful tools for transformation. Have a lovely day and remain blessed.
Your thinking also reflects your personality. A person who stay positive and think positive in hard situations not only have a a stamina of patience but it is good for their health.
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Yes well done
Great words from you, we must protect our minds by the right learning
But without forgetting the heart, the source of values and humanity for our balance
Great work .. well done
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Human mind is so complex but one thing a person should do is to align his mind to the will of His Creator!
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Great Post @bestgift, no wonder when a fellow is acting all crazy, you hear folks say he/she is loosing his/her mind.
This shows how important the mind is.
If you want to mess up a man, mess up his mind.
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@elizahfhaye, the mind is indeed complex. But don't you think the mind still needs to be sound to properly align to the will of the Creator?
@bestgift, thanks for sharing this wonderful post
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Absolutely right. its all about the mind peace. if your mind is at peace then all of your work will be done so easily and you will interest in it. i liked how you have given a thought about this issue. it was nice reading your post.
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Nice post
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Yes.. Agreed. We are all like a memory card which can only play or give what information put inside it. When we were born, we were empty but was infused with information that has made us who we are today. If we got a virus in our memory card, it affects its performance and the memory card needs formatting... We need to format ourselves of some negative (virus) information imbeded inside of us in the course if our growing. This is how we can be better.
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GREAT POST INFORMATIONAL BECAUSE THE MIND IT IS A GREAT MISTERY, IT IS NOT EASY TO UNDERSTAND, GOOD LUCK.
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!!!
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This is lovely. Thank you for sharing. The mind is magick, a channel of guides for the human. When we have learned to balance our humansitc thoughts we clear the path to activate our chakra alignment and heal the brain and body. Thoughts are powerful, energy in motion. And, what we continually think reflects that of the outside world. Want to be better in life? Think better and you will do better. We co-create the life we want for ourselves. It all starts within.
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Thank you for the wonderful article. Very useful. We are what we think.
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Yes it is really useful
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of course! the mind is a very complex system. and the life is more complex that mind
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very useful . thanks for the post.
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have a very old room to sleep around.
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i agree with you.
Dont waste your energy for negative thoughts. Thats not good. You could use this energy to do something good. Maybe u could even use this wasted power to change the thing that made the negative thougths.
Thanks for your post @bestgift
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this post was awesome
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Certainty: Make sure your thoughts are aligned with that of your Heavenly Father.
Blessings!
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Very powerful piece @bestgift, I wholeheartedly agree. I think now more and more people are starting to realize the importance of their thoughts, but quickly get distracted with societal issues. Between social media and the news it is easy to get stuck in a negative mindset, which ultimately leads us down the wrong path. Great post and thank you for sharing !!
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The mind is the Engine room controlling the entire body and there in lies the true personality of everyone. Great Post!
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Yes. we should stand guard at the door of our thought. I am inspired with your illustration the function of the mind like our bedroom. It should be organized and peaceful. Never let wild animals to enter and destroy us. Thank you @bestgift
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I think the mind is a vast place and can't be completely understood
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Wonderfull inspiration
Thanks
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Your article has been beautiful.Compatible with your picture.I can not share everything when I am crazy about it.Thank you so much for sharing.
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although our basic view differs from the function of thought, but the influences and contributions that occur around the incoming momentarily or before the action taken is a final result taken by instinct.
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hola , saludos , me gusta el tema creo fielmente que todo nace en nuestros pensamientos, somos lo que creamos de nosotros mismo, tengo algún tiempo en practicas de técnicas de meditación , y de verdad esta es la mejor forma para mi, de tranquilizar mis pensamientos , y hacer de ella , la mente ,mi mejor aliada.
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It's looking interesting , I am very impressed :)
awesome..
LG Harald
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The mind is very powerful and can positively influence your energy when you are happy and cause blokkage in your body when you are feeling down and depressed.
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I learned a useful technique from a meditation app that goes like this: whenever you have a thought, be it negative or positive, label it as it is: a thought. The same goes for feelings, be it positive or negative, label it as just that: a feeling. This technique is called "noting" and though it may sound simple, it's actually pretty hard to do. What this does, I think, is to ease the tension that arises when we restrict certain thoughts from coming in to our heads. Meditation helped me reframe the way I interpret thoughts. I've heard a lot of people benefit from it too.
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Everytime, negative thoughts knocks in meditation works best for me @thegaillery. I'll give "noting" a try. Thank you
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How did "noting" go for you, @orhem? Try downloading the Headspace app, unya. Dinhi ni nako nalearn na technique :)
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It makes the burden lighter but I am still learning. thank you @thegaillery. I'll surely download this app.
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@bestgift this is really good explanation on how almost everything works. But there is one thing. You are what You do. And when You do, You can transform what You think.
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your looking so very beautiful , I like it .
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Definitely, the thoughts create the reality.
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The who sees nice thinks nice, the who thinks nice gets flavour from his life. This is an Turkish proverb.
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AS I get older I get more and more sensitive to my thoughts. I have to be very careful what I watch like a horror show or very disturbing news. because then I will think about it and become very upset. I find I have to protect and guard my mind and as Paul said in Phil 4:8 : “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things and the God of peace will be with you”.
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excellent work! have you read Hillary Putnam?
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Wow, I really love your post bestgift, follow me on discord at prettyv
Keep up the quality work !
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Buen dia . me parece que es un mensaje de fe en dios, que puede sacarte de cualquier mal pensamiento o acción negativa que perjudique tu vida diaria y la de tu familia.Amen
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A write inspiration
Thanks for sharing
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Nice post
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Your thoughts are genuine and dope.
I'm taking this along with me " Thoughts do build up, and when we continue in that line of thought, we are simply adding energy to it." -@bestgift
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the #mind is the most powerful tool of every living creature
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Thanks @bestgift.
Mind & thoughts are powerful tools for transformation !!!
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hygiene should be in priority because, it can reduce pain, thanks for sharing. @bestgift
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Brilliant post, @bestgift. This reminds me of a phrase I used to use, "Carpentry is a meditation that always begins and ends with sweeping." One can gain incredible clarity of thought when surrounded in peaceful, clean environments.
@bestgift - Ever heard of the 7 day Black and White Challenge? I nominate you to join in and share some aspects of your life through photography.
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The human mind is a big ocean, where you can grow lots of colourful thoughts and ideas. But if you contaminate the water then everything is going to be destroyed. So, we should careful through our thoughts.
And please, Don't smoke, it kills.
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Your philosophy on human nature is really great. I agree with you.
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Love this..Speaking my thinking
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Concentration gives us the freedom to accomplish whatever we wish for. Without concentration our mind has no freedom but is forced to go wherever it is led by attachment, hatred, or other delusions. A person who has good, virtuous concentration has control over his mind, and his mind does what he wants it to do, like a well-trained horse that obeys its rider.
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I like all of you! :) Who like me? ;)
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That's right. Our mind define the quality of our lives. Life isn't only about what happens to us but mainly how we respond to it and what is our perspective. Beautiful post
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Wouldn't the combination of good thoughts and minds give us a brighter future?
Read the good article carefully before you leave.
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Our thoughts are one of the most important thing about us as humans, its part of the process that make or mar us. I want to add emphasis to the section where you talk about rebuking and snapping out of negative thoughts. Negativity comes in so many different ways but its final germination process is our mind and once we allow it to grow it becomes a huge problem not just to us alone but to our society and the world at large. Its very important to filter our mind and and remove every form of negative thoughts at the earliest stage possible in order to remain positive, not just for ourselves but also for the people around us. Because whether we like it or not, whatever we do does not only affect us, but also do affect other people around us too.
Nice piece about the mind, it will do a lot of good.
Remain blessed.
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I like it so much!
That was the best for me.
Justamente esta semana me he dado cuenta que los pensamientos rigen mucho nuestras maneras de actuar, un buen dato que entendí es redireccionarlos porque no podrás pensar dos cosas al mismo tiempo, así que cambiar un pensamiento por otro será lo mejor, en lugar de concentrarnos en lo que nos debemos.
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Very informative.. Thank you xx
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nice post...
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