Pumping Positive Mental Iron

When You Control Your Mind, You Control Your Life

Your mind is not a quiet place.  Along with the gift of consciousness comes a million helter skelter thoughts that echo endlessly in your mind.   Your mind does not sit quietly waiting for you to think up a thought.  From the instant you arise in the morning, it soaks up every sight, sound, and input in your world and associates those inputs with the data already stored in your memory banks.  It performs this task automatically and autonomously.  It does it even when you don't want it to.  It's never quiet, and there is no off switch.  Even when you are asleep, your mind is still at work below your level of consciousness.  Every now and then it wakes you up with a vivid dream to remind you that it's still there and is running your life.

The mind is a scary thing when it's out of control.  It can give you dreams that make your hair stand on end.  It can tell you to do things that are not in your best interest.  It even leads some people down the path of self-destruction.

When your mind is in control, it is your servant, and it can lead to the pinnacle of success.

When your mind is out of control, you may not survive what it has to say.  When your mind is manipulated by those with an evil agenda, you become the pawn of the powerful - a pawn of those who want to control your mind.   All of the great battles on planet earth happen first in the mind.  That's where fear does it's dastardly deed.  A single fearful thought planted in enough minds can make wars happen.

The people who control your mind control your life.

Your mind is the single most powerful control point in your life.  The most important decision you will ever make is who is going to control your mind.  Is the government going to control it?  Is your boss going to control it?  Is your family going to control it?  Is your culture going to control it?  Is your religion going to control it?  Are you going to control it?

Inside your brain is a switch that most people don't even know exists.    It's a switch that gives you the power to control your thoughts.  The instant you flip the switch, you control your mind and your life.  And if you never flip that switch, then by default your mind will be controlled by others.  Your family, culture, employer, government, and religion will make and mold your thoughts; they will control your mind and life.

I taught my children that they must always run their own brain.   They must never turn off their mind or surrender control to someone else. God gave everyone a mind, and He expects them to control it and use it in a way that makes the world a better place.  The instant they turn off their brain and let someone else control it, their life is over.  They are no longer living their life or dreams.  Someone else is telling them what to believe, how to think, and they begin living the dreams of other people.

Many forces in society conspire to convince you  that you cannot control your mind.  Drug manufacturers would have you believe that it's impossible to control your mind on your own.  They are more than happy to control your thoughts with drugs.  They are in the business of mind control.  If they had their way, when you think an anxious thought, they would give you an anti-anxiety drug.  When you are depressed, they give you one or more antidepressant drugs.  When you are agitated, there's a drug for that.  For every unwanted state of mind, there is a drug (mind control medication).  They don't want you to believe that it's actually possible to control your thoughts without putting their chemical straight jacket on your mind.  The one thing a drug company will never do is tell you that you have the power control your thoughts  on your own without their drugs.

Medical professionals become unwilling participants in this dangerous game, because it's easier and quicker to write a prescription for a drug than it is to take the time to sit down with a patient and teach them how to regain control of their thoughts.  It requires only seconds to prescribe a chemical straight jacket for the mind.  It may require years of counseling and therapy to solve the problem rather than only suppress it with a chemical straight jacket. 

There was a time when Valium was the most prescribed drug on planet earth.  There are so many psychoactive drugs in use that they have percolated down into our water table, and they pollute our water supply.

The battle for a positive mind is now being fought on a chemical battlefield.  But it doesn't have to be that way.  It actually is possible to have a positive mind in most people without the use of drugs.  There will always be a small portion of the population that requires medications for the mental challenges they face.  For individuals with serious mental disorders, the medications are a godsend, and without them there would be no hope.  But for most people, drugs are not their friend.  Instead of solving problems, they suppress them.  Instead of making them mentally fit, they make them feel better while the underlying problems do not change.

When you look at a newborn baby, you don't see any signs of mental turmoil.  That baby doesn't have a single twisted thought.  It only takes a few years to transform that child into an anxious, conflicted person.    Society will teach that child that he needs drugs to control his thoughts.  In just a few years the child will self-medicate himself with alcohol and marijuana to calm the storm of thoughts blowing through his mind.

Mind control is big business, and it makes the world go round.  On a personal level, it also makes your world go round, and if you don't control your mind, you will not control your life.  Period.  Exclamation point!

The most important battle on planet earth is the battle for control of the human mind.  He who controls the way people think will rule the planet.  It's not the meek who inherit the earth; it's those who control your mind.  The powerful don't want your money. They want control of your mind, because when they control your mind, they have everything.  Getting control of your mind is the hard part.  Taking your money, your children, and your possessions is easy once they have control of your thoughts.

You can tell how much mind control is happening in society by the level of fear. 

Governments convince people to surrender their freedom using the gospel of fear.  Fear based marketing is now the darling of the free market.  You can get people to buy anything when you package fear in the product. 

When people tell me I should be afraid,  they either don't know what they are talking about, they are trying to control me with fear, or they want to sell me something as an antidote to the fearful world that they are trying to cultivate in my mind.

The battle lines on planet earth are now drawn, and it's time to decide whether you are going to run your own mind, or if you are going to let other people control the way you think.

If you decide to run your own mind, you will have to pump some serious mental iron.  You will be going against the flow, and the world is not going to give up without a fight.  The world really does want to control the way you think.

You will have to become proactive and assume full control of your mind and the thoughts that you find there.

You will have to control what you allow into your mind.

You will have to reject the gospel of fear.

A positive mind is not an accident, and creating a positive mind involves discipline and hard work.  Pumping positive mental iron is a life long task that is never over.

Is it hard?  Yes.

Is it worth it? Absolutely.  There is no other way to live your dreams and take control of your life.

Pumping positive mental iron is not a mystery.  It is simply a series of positive actions that you take every day to control the way you think.

Go to any fitness club and watch people pump iron.  The gym has machines that tone all the major muscle groups in the body.  Other machines focus on a cardio workout that increases cardiovascular fitness.  Good gyms are arranged in a manner so that if you use all the machines, you will achieve a complete and balanced workout that results in fitness.

Most people don't have a program to achieve mental fitness.  They have lots of mental flab, and their mental muscles are puny.  Their mental endurance is extremely limited.  They are mental wimps because they never pump mental iron, and they are not in control of their mind.

If you want to control your thoughts and rule your mind, you will have to pump mental iron in a well-rounded mental work out every day.

What can you do to have a complete mental work out?

Here is a list of exercises you can use to pump positive mental iron every day.  All of them require time and effort, but your reward is that you get to control your mind and your life.  It's also free!

COUNT TWENTY BLESSINGS -  If you don't count your blessings, your blessing will not count.  You will overlook all your blessings and live as if they are not there.  Start your day off right by focusing on the good things in your life.  If you really want to pump mental iron,  say your blessings out loud.  This sets the tone for your entire day.  Counting your blessings isn't rocket science, and it's easy to do.  It puts everything in it's proper perspective, and it doesn't take much time.  Counting your blessings is like stretching before you begin serious exercise.  It prepares you for what lies ahead.  I count twenty blessings when I wake up in the morning, and I count them again before I go to sleep at night.  Maybe that's why I fall quickly off to sleep and get a good night's rest.

I start out the day counting twenty blessings the instant I wake up.  I follow that up with thanking God for twenty positive things that He has done in my life.

On my way to work and on my way home after work, I listen to positive podcasts.

When I go for a hike I also pump mental  iron by listening to positive podcasts.

Before I go to sleep at night, I review positive scriptures.

When I surf the internet during my free time, I read a few excerpts from positive books, review short courses from the Positive Thinking University, and look at some Positive Wallpaper.  I have even created several websites that I use to inspire myself and to help me refocus.  Positive Thinking Sailor gets my feet back on the ground.  Affirmations of Praise reminds me of God's work in my life in the past. It helps me focus on God's work in the present, and it affirms God's power in the future.  Gratitude and Praise is an inner recognition and outer affirmation of God's love, presence, and power.  I don't just surf the world wide web.  I use the web to pump positive mental iron.

All through the day I pump mental iron with positive self talk.

Pumping Positive Mental Iron is not that hard to accomplish and the rewards are great.

Don't be a mental wimp.  Start pumping positive mental iron and discover that there is no limit to how good your life can become.

Positive Thinking Doctor - David J. Abbott M.D. is the Positive Thinking Doctor.  He spent his career working as an eye surgeon in developing countries.  After twenty-eight years of medical practice overseas, he became a flying doctor with the Indian Health Service working with more than twenty different tribes in the American southwest. Although Dr. Dave was trained to preserve and restore vision using surgery, he wanted to fight inner blindness and restore inner vision teaching people how to look at the world through eyes of possibility and love.  Dr. Dave created a Positive Thinking Network with more than 200 websites.  People from 180 countries around the world visit his websites and tell their friends about his positive message.

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