How to Master your Mind
When your mind is full of distracting thoughts and worries, why not try using this technique to stop thinking, calm down, and bring everything back into focus…
“To understand how you might be thinking
thoughts without realizing it, stop right now,
close your eyes, and do not think a single
thought for ten seconds.
If thoughts came even though you decided to
stop them, you know thoughts are happening
in your life without your knowledge of them.
If your mind will not obey you and stop for
ten seconds, can you imagine the amount of
thoughts that are being produced in one day?
You can change this and master your mind. All
it takes is practicing the process of not thinking
a thought for ten seconds. In a short amount
of time you will be able to stop all thoughts for
ten seconds, fifteen seconds, thirty seconds,
and so on, until you are the one who decides
whether you will think a thought or not. The
peace that comes when you are the master of
your mind is indescribable, and along with
that you will also be a master of the law of
attraction. Imagine that!”
~ From The Secret Daily Teachings
March 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am
This technique is more or less the same as the Zen method of achieving the mental state of samādhi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopping_thought
March 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am
How to stop “loop thoughts”: http://alzheimers.about.com/od/caregivers/ht/Loop_Thoughts.htm
Quotes on Stopping Thought, How to Meditate, Enlightenment, Kundalini, Chakras, Mantras and Samadhi by American-Born Buddhist Zen Master Rama: http://www.ramaquotes.com/html/stopping_thought.html
March 27th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Excellent post on “how to master your mind”. These days with the doom and gloom it is easy for out thoughts to carry us into a negative state. Thanks for sharing:-)
October 19th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Great post on how to master your mind. I will show this post to my student. Thank you very much for sharing!