DEVELOPING AN INDEPENDENT AND POSITIVE MINDSET(1)

There are so many parts in the above title;

Developing: nurturing something or someone to an advanced stage

Independent: not connected to or free of something

Positive: a good or useful quality, thinking about what is good.

Mindset: a set of fixed ideas or attitudes that somebody has that are often difficult to change.

Definitions are according to oxford dictionary 5th edition

                                                 THE MIND 

Our minds can be said to be the origin of whatever action or inactions we see, the source of anything good or bad, the originator of anything beneficial or harmful, the mind is more or less the engine room of a physical body, the unseen and unsung hero of any great person, and also the villain behind any failure.

The power of the mind cannot and should never be underestimated, the mind is an unapologetic optimist that it believes there is nothing it cannot achieve, and at same time it is also an unrepentant pessimist that it believes it cannot achieve anything or get anything done. All this sounds like the mind (if it were to be a person in physical) is a confused human. However this double identity of the mind just tends to show that it is greatly competent to execute whatever it is committed to do with great precision and technique. It is pertinent to know that our minds is always of two opposite nature, good and bad, positive and negative, possibility and impossibility.

However, the mind is very and always dependent on whatever use it is put to. In as much as it is called the mind, it doesn’t have a mind of its own. We as humans all have minds, so now, whatever power or control you give your mind would be manifested on the outside by your actions, just like the spiritual controls the physical, so also is the mind, the processes are not seen, only the results manifests.

All said and done, we can easily deduce that the mind depends on us for power. If you think you can do something and you will your mind to believe so, pooof!!! It gets done, and well if you think something is impossible your mind too tends to believe so, then it remains so, we should however note that the mind tends to want to have thoughts of its own and move off track, it is however our duty to remind it that we own it and it is condemned to do what we want. That is WILLPOWER.

Watch this space for subsequent parts.