A sound mind is a healthy mind and a healthy mind, a sound mind. The ability to build the mind and sustain its soundness through continuous development guarantees it against rust. Such a mind would save and deliver the owner in critical and otherwise moments.
What you feed the mind determines its quality and output. The development and maintenance of a healthy mind is a must and resourceful information is the tool and commodity that the mind requires in order to thrive.
Knowing this is just one step. Deliberately engaging in the art is stepping into greatness. It is a choice that we have to make to equip the mind with valid resources. This is one key that we must never lose if we do not want to be locked out of our own mind because of the wrong information that we take in.
If people know that the mind is more complex than a software, they should be deliberate about regularly updating their minds. Decluttering then becomes a constant in order to keep the mind healthy and rich in service delivery.
How do we develop a sound and healthy mind? The following ideas and thoughts should suffice:
Identify what you want from Life
The first step towards mind development is to identify what you want from life. This is the personal identity that defines who you are and what you become. You cannot, out of ignorance, choose to become what or who you are not. That would be your greatest undoing. It is suicidal.
We must keep asking ourselves what it is that we want from Life. The answer to this question would see us use the code of acceptance in the right way because it would help us know what areas to focus on developing. We have to be specific. We may need to be industry specific. We may need to be activity specific. We may need to be people specific. We have to tailor our growth to a specific area of endeavour and we cannot do this unless we know what we want from Life. Knowing what we want from Life is truly visionary and uncommon.
Envision and Visualize Yourself There
To envision is to visualize. If you cannot see it in the seed, you cannot be it. Seeing is not believing except if we are able to see the unseen. We have to believe it first before we can see it. This is the law of manifestation. Believing is seeing with the eye of the mind. This is the eye of faith that sees the unseen. It is the supersense that precedes and guides all great endeavours into reality.
What we cannot envision, we cannot focus on. Without a clarity of vision, it is impossible to identify natural inclination. This vision is a settled thought that is embedded deep within the human essence and consciousness. Potentially, you see yourself in the place of promise while in gloom and you hold on tenaciously to that promise as you build competencies to help you get there.
Diligently Work at Building Yourself Up
As stated in the preceding paragraph, knowing through visualization should help you begin to develop competencies like skills acquisition and using the mentality of service to sharpen same. This helps you stay in the consistency mode. As you serve constantly, you stay apprenticed to value and even when you are free from apprenticeship, you remain lifelong learners in the chosen space.
Truth is that we cannot ever be free from our apprenticeship to value. The commitment is lifelong. What this enables us to do is to stay in the place of service and with that we are ever renewed because we are constantly evolving. It is pertinent to state that if we play in the space of our natural inclination, we would stay married to creativity, ideas evolution and the execution of same. We stay renewed because our mind is always poised for impact.
Be Open to Opportunities
With opportunities we must be ready to find a way around things. No matter how tough things get, we must get going. Opportunity means work and it does come with pain before we can birth gain from it. We must be open to opportunities through creating them or by identifying them through using observation and paying attention.
Through observation we identify and notice established patterns. Opportunities are problems that require solutions and unless we are solutions fluent through a problem-embracing mentality, we would have a hard time identifying opportunities that are hidden in problems.
Accept the Reality of Each Moment
Acceptance grants us access to be more of and in the thing that we have accepted. If we accept our natural inclination, we can know more about it and develop other requirements to make it relevant in our space. If we accept the reality of the present time and know that things continuously evolve, we would be able to churn out great value than when we live in denial.
The earlier we accept means the better for us to apply ourselves to the realities on ground. This enables and activates research. Whether we think the realities are good or ill is not the issue. The issue is how we apply ourselves to it and that is where the fortune lies. As we search for answers and solutions, we grow and evolve. As we implement, we improve processes and livelihood. We constantly align with and become one with value.
Jump from Reading to Learning
The process of learning is a process of going from creativity to execution. Reading is a great place to start. Where reading is not possible because of poor or no formal education, it can be difficult unless such a mind is willing to go through a rewiring process of subjecting itself to development, regardless of age.
The value here begins with reading, and it goes on to studying, and meditation, which is the point where content slows one down. Sure, great content must do that. That is one quality of great resource. It slows you down as you engage with it. Between studying and meditation is note-taking. With this, we can begin to ruminate on how to apply the knowledge therein. This is critical to growth because true learning brings about a change in behaviour. Doing or execution is involved. This is empowerment since shifts have to happen and people have to transit from one position to another position.
A healthy mind is a purposeful mind. This means that such a mind is definitively disposed. Though this may seem like limiting it to a certain field of endeavour, it does not mean that it is alien to value in other areas. It is just that it is more developed in a specific area than in others.
What other ideas do you have on how to develop a healthy mind? You can add to the list. It may be inexhaustible because the mind is the consciousness of mankind.
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