The Mind
Free Your Mind - Free Your Life.
Escape entrapment by developing:
thought emotion, and communication.
Clear out your mental garbage and
Develop new ways of thinking.
Avoid being overwhelmed -
by your emotions or by another's.
Be in control of your feelings and be in control your life.
Renew your mind and renew your existence.
We are trapped within our minds within our universes. Like the maker of the computer who becomes controlled by his creation, we as spiritual beings have become entrapped within our own creations - our minds. Developed, like the computer, to free us from the tedium of routine existence, our minds have become our masters. Made originally for us to control, they now control us.
Minds full of junk
As beings living now, we have minds filled with junk - perhaps from many aeons ago. And ways of doing things that belong in the days of tooth and claw! We need to both clean out our minds, and remake new, more useful programs to help us live effectively and to continue our spiritual quest.
Our minds contain thoughts, procedures and images - pictures, sounds, feelings and taste-smells. We think by following procedures we have developed - but probably long forgotten and long been unaware of.
For example, in a phobic situation, we see something which we associate with some emotions and consequently behave in a certain way.
In the phobic state the emotion is fear and the behaviour is probably escape or attack. In a phobia the thing we are afraid of is not a threat to the body. "Nothing is a threat to the spirit!"
(Nothing is a threat to the spirit!) The fear is irrational or extreme.
Even if we do not have phobias, the principle affects all of us.
The way we think in phobicly does not help us at all. At the very most it is a relic from some past threat. Phobias are not usually big issues with many of us, but their principle affects...
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