POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE

POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE - Mind Control / Positive Thinking




Western meditation is based on teaching people to look at the positive side of life (positive mental attitude) and how to reprogram yourself (neuro linguistic programming) to lead a more meaningful existence. Most of these courses are based on how the mind functions. You will learn about the pituitary and pineal glands in our brain, the areas controlling our intuitions and extra sensory perceptions. Then you will be taught about the left and right brain function. You will also learn about the Alpha, Beta and Delta level of consciousness. Meditation is by way of sitting on a comfortable chair, relaxing, listening to the soft background music imagining and visualizing out what the course master teaches. This will normally take 3 to 4 days to fire you up on positive thinking and try to break away from phobias and bad habits. It is a way of reprogramming our mind to function more effectively. There is no focusing on the chakras or meridians points. Here you work at the subconscious level of your mind. It preaches you about mind over matters. What the mind conceives and believes can be achieved.

I can still remember how more than 20 years ago I was first introduced and learn what such mind control courses are about. The lecturer Dr. AJA Peter was a qualified Silva Mind Control instructor. Since then I have brought and read hundreds of books by authors such as Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich", Dr. Maxwell's Psycho Cybernetics series, Vincent Price's Positive Thinking series and Napoleon Hill's Positive Mental Attitude. Most of the books wrote about the importance of our thoughts. Some of these people even claim that the thought is more important than the end product itself. I think such statement is over zealous and does not make sense since we receives all kinds of thoughts whether good or bad. Dr Peter might want to suppress all bad thoughts but I think it is a futile attempt. We get all kind of suggestions all the time. Some of these thoughts are really nasty. It is not your fault, you are not the only one with such thoughts. We have to let it in and knowingly reject all bad thoughts not hiding from it. It is like a star sales person making a sales statement. If we do not accept the logic behind those frivolous statements, no sales will come from it no matter how good the sales person is or what he/she says. It is our acceptance of the thoughts that we have the end result. If I were to think of having fun with a certain movie star, it does not mean she will actually accept me. How can I have fun with her when she might not even accept me as her friend? While thoughts are a powerful tool, it can only be realized if we truly believed it will happen. What the mind conceived and believed can be achieved. For instance, if we noticed a person in a trance and who truly believed himself/herself to be a god, he/she is a god at that moment of time and can do lots of seemingly impossible acts such as walking barefooted on fire, cutting, poking himself with swords and sharp objects, speak in alien language, miracle healing, eating glasses and porcelain and many other normally impossible acts. Normally these people does not feel the pain even when they are bleeding. It is when they are out of the trance that the pain begin to be felt. If I really think I want to kill someone, it is only thinking and unless and until I have performed the act, it is only in the form of thinking. While thinking itself is bad enough and should be rejected straight away, it is not a crime to just think. If you keep on having negative and harmful thoughts, it will be hardly surprising if you do not enjoy life. But it is not a crime for killing someone mentally (i.e in your mind only and the person is totally unharmed). Unless someone can prove you have the psychic ability to manipulate your mind to kill someone and the person is dead, there is no crime committed. Some people when faced with such thoughts feel guilty and disturbed. Let me assure you that you have no control over the suggestions that surfaced in your mind (just as you cannot control what you dream). You can however reject the thoughts straight away (just like you can wake yourself up from a nightmare). Why waste time on a useless thought /dream when you can move on to something better. Be rational these are all not real. There is nothing to be guilty about.


We must always be positive in our thoughts. If we think we will lose/fail, it is almost certain we have already lost without even trying. Therefore when things does not look bright, always put up your best and who knows your next punch might put down your more powerful opponent. In life, we do not always have sunshine everyday. Therefore we must make the hay while the sunshine last. We should always be positive in our thinking and reject all bad and harmful thoughts. We have to reinforce our positive thinking and always look for the silver lining in the sky no matter how bad your current situation is. Always have a positive mental attitude. Maybe things are not as bleak as what we imagined. There is always a way out if we really put our mind to find it. If we give up there is absolutely no hope of success. Who knows, your unwillingness to give up might spring you some surprises when you finally see light at the end of the tunnel of darkness. It might be like David sling shot at Goliath. Your refusal to give up could make your opponent nervous like Maria Sharapova's refusal to give in to Li Na who had just won the 1st game and leading 4-0 in the second in an ATP final. Li Na was holding serve in the 5th set she just shoot herself in the feet. It look more like Li Na was trying to help Sharapova win the match. Do not give up but fight on with whatever little resources you might have and sooner or later you might find success.


The most important thing pertaining to human beings is the ability to use the brain to analyze and think. A human mind is always preoccupied with something regardless of whether it is positive or negative. If a human mind is endowed in negative thinking, he/she will be gloomy and living in fear of what lies ahead. On the other hand if a person is always thinking positively, he/she will be cheerful and looking forward to the future. In this world of ours, positive thinking alone will not guarantee us lasting happiness or what ever we are seeking for. The practicality and reality of everyday life has made it almost impossible to predict or diagnose. We have to be cautious and mindful of our actions to avoid the many traps set up by con-artistes /hypocrites (pretending to be your friends) and including naive people (who actually believe they were helping you but actually unwittingly make your life more miserable). Therefore we have to strike a balance between being totally positive (which is naive and easily conned) and pure negativity (which is fatal).


Badminton superstar Lin Dan (2 times Olympic and numerous times World Champion) was quoted as saying "There is no such thing as genius. In order to succeed, one has to perform the skill over and over again until it becomes natural. We have to work very hard to improve our weakness. It is this hard works which people normally does not notice that make one look like a genius executing extraordinary shots with precision and skill above the ordinary. Therefore a champion is a very hardworking genius." Albert Einstein said he has no special talent but he was extremely curious. Thomas Edison have ten thousands of failures after failures until he finally managed to invent the electric light bulb. Beside the real on the field practices, many sport stars now do mind conditioning to help them focus on their games. For instance Tiger Wood would visualized the ball being hit over and over again to see himself successfully hit the perfect "hole in one" shots. Most stars now employ psychologists to help them condition their mind to perform at their peak.

Similarly we cannot expect to be good in meditation or mind control without putting extraordinary efforts. Therefore many people took up Tai Chi or Chi Kung or Yoga for more than thirty years without much progress. There are others who took a year or two and yet become more successful. It is the effort and willingness to work very hard toward your objective that bring you results. If these seemingly invincible people have so much failures (certainly more than an ordinary person), it would be hardly surprising if the ordinary can also be successful too if they set reasonable and achievable goals and work very hard toward achieving them. Do not be afraid to fail. When you fail, you must try to learn from your failure. Analyse why you fail with friends, coaches and mentors. By improving yourself you become more and more likely to succeed the next time. If we are too afraid to fail, we will never be successful too. Ultimately it is the one success that matters as no one cares about the previous 10000 times Thomas Edison fail in making the electric bulb. Ben Franklin says "I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that do not work." Similarly it does not matter how many times the superstars fail, it is the trophies that ultimately matters and made them the champions. If we are to measure it the other way round you will find Thomas Edison as having one of the most failures in life. Similarly normal people who is either too lazy or afraid to try will have the least of failures and success.


Some of the authors of western meditation now has ventured into Yoga's terrain, where there is mention of chakras and ancient meditation. But ultimately, mind control is the science of reprogramming yourself (self hypnotized) to have a positive mental attitude, breaking phobias and bad habits. There is also mention of psychic abilities. Our mind is a super computer. If we really believe we can walk on fire, the fire will not harm you. The difficult part is to stop oneself from doubting himself / herself. What the mind conceives and believes can be achieved. Recently, it has also come to my attention that some authors are trying to tell people who want to be successful that we must be doing what destiny have in store for us. If our destiny is to be a healer, we will not be successful doing something unrelated such as be a lawyer. It make sense since each of us have different fates and it is easier to explain why some people can never be successful. Even the Ultra Mind Control talks about discovering our purpose in this world and work toward achieving it. It is sayings things that are different from the previous stand of what the mind conceives and believe can be achieved. In doing so perhaps we might also make the best out of life.


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