MindPower

Many of us are familiar with the concepts of positive thinking. You may have read or even understand how the use of mantras and other means can give us all the opportunity to bring forward aspects within our lives.

But, have you really taken the time to consider the power of your own thoughts. If you knew how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative or detrimental thought again. Take the time to contemplate the power of your thoughts and how powerfully they affect your life.

Stop and take the time to realise the complexities of your mind, so that you may comprehend how to change your way of thinking. Take the time to consider that your mental mind, with its patterns of thinking and passive intellect, can be your biggest challenge in life.  Your mind can bring forward thoughts, reactions, feelings and emotions from your experiences.

How many times in your life have you been motivated or enthusiastic as you aspire to achieve or change aspects in your life, such as: a healthy lifestyle, travel, study, starting a new business, saving more money, or changing aspects of yourself regarding the home, work or family relationships? Yet in a short time, you find yourself falling back into your old patterns of behaviour and thinking. Without realising it, you have let the pre-programmed aspects or passive intellect of your mind take control of your life, setting you up to fall back to previous patterns of behaviour or failures of your best-laid plans.

Take control of your life by gaining an understanding of your mind and your reactions. Through being able to bring calmness and balance within you, it is then possible to resonate to a different frequency to make decisions and evaluate situations more clearly.

As humankind, we possess higher intellect and all the faculties of life, perception, imagination and intellection. The cognitive powers of your mind and your faculties of knowledge operate on multiple simultaneous levels. Through active intelligence, you have the ability and the capacity to combine all of the diverse aspects of your intellect to manifest into life.

Through the skills of cognition, your active intelligence can illuminate your life, in the same way as light renders colours visible in the world around us.   Learn how to awaken your Life Force energies and achieve a state of Cognition with KIA0010.

A common challenge for many people undertaking mindfulness or meditation is that they cannot make their mind go blank or empty, however much they try. You will be glad to know that most people have noisy minds, so you are not alone in your struggle to tame the endless chatter of your mind.

The ultimate goal for anyone meditating is to achieve a full quietness of mind, but for many of us, this is simply not attainable. If you have a noisy mind, stop trying to achieve absolute silence of mind. Realise that often your own efforts to quieten the mind, fill your mind with the noise of the very thoughts you are trying to banish. While you may not be able to achieve a complete quietness of mind, you should instead be focusing on becoming master of your mind. The difference being, that as you become that master, you can learn to focus your mind with Ekagrata (focussed thought).

Applying Ekagrata enables you to focus on one thing, such as your breath, or repeating a mantra, or mindfully shifting your attention to a specific thought. As a master of your own mind, you are not thinking of everything at the same time, you are being intentional and focusing on one thing at a time. If stray thoughts enter into your mind, you acknowledge them, and push them aside to achieve that focus of mind which is Ekagrata. Become the master of your own mind with Ekagrata, so that you may learn to create a quiet space even within a noisy mind with KIA0006 .

If you pause for a moment to listen to your thoughts, you are likely to find that most of the thoughts you have do not register within your consciousness. However, you may observe that you are reacting to these thoughts without you realising it. Take the opportunity to listen to your thoughts as they enter the mind, like an outside observer. Then strive to catch hold of any negative or damaging thoughts before they take hold within your consciousness. Then push such thoughts out of your consciousness, indicating that you do not want them to be part of your life.

In order to master your thoughts, you have to learn to listen to your own thoughts. Skills acquired through Life Force mindfulness, meditation and cognitive practices can all help you to listen to your own thoughts as the impartial arbiter.

As individuals, each of us differs from one another in our ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt to our environment, to learn from experience and to engage in various forms of reasoning through the application of active intelligence. These differences are never entirely consistent as your intellectual capabilities will vary on different occasions and in different aspects of your life.

Active intelligence is the manifestation of intellect through free will or volition. Stop and pause for a moment to observe your own thoughts, then apply active intellect rather than just reacting to stimuli.

Thought is a fundamental human activity, and something all of us do every day. The complexity of the brain and thought can be demonstrated as you read these words. From a functional and biological perspective, the photons of light associated with the patterns of these letters are focused onto the retina of your eye. The neuron responds with its own electrical signal, which then in-turn propagates along the optic nerves and into the brain. Within a few hundred milliseconds, the signal has spread to the many interconnected areas of your brain, and you have perceived these words. However, are your thoughts more than just this biological process within your brain?

 

Pause for a while to consider how your thoughts are more than just a biological process – see that your thoughts have energy.

You have a mind to think, evaluate, reason & learn. Energy is the catalyst and creative force of the universe and life within it, which brings into existence atoms, molecules, planets, stars and galaxies. The human form is created of the same substance and controlled by the same energies; but is endowed with a mind to think, evaluate, reason and learn.

Take the time to pause and think with active intellect, so that you can master your own thoughts.

Your thoughts are the most powerful when focused with intent. When your thoughts lack focus, it is akin to light passing through a prism compared to passing through a magnifying glass. While light may travel through both the prism and the magnifying glass, what happens to the light afterwards is very different. The same is true of your thoughts, learn how to focus your thoughts, rather than let them be scattered. Many of the practices which are embodied in mindfulness and meditation can help you to focus your thoughts, while true ekagrata can be achieved through Life Force Cognition.

Your life as you know it, is the expression of your mind. You may find that you are living your life, simply by reacting to life and the stimuli around you, rather than living life with active intellect.

The term of active intellect first appeared in the work of Aristotle and through the ages has become a source of intense discussion.  Learn what it means to apply your intellect and volition to achieve Active Intelligence in your life with The Life Force Institute.