Your Mind Is Controlling Your Life (Here’s Why)
In a Nutshell
Your mind isn't you—it's a tool that runs your life when left on autopilot. Identity shapes behavior more than willpower, and outdated self-definitions keep you stuck in old patterns. Change happens fastest by expanding who you think you are, not by fighting thoughts or forcing habits.
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The biggest challenge is the mind because most people think they are their mind and their thoughts. Stressful thoughts about health, children's health, business cash flow, parents, death, or whether one is enough are not personal thoughts—they are just thoughts. The mind is a tool meant to be used; if not used consciously, it will use the person. To make change, different parts of what is considered the mind or brain must be understood.
In the Indian tradition, the mind and the intellect are distinguished. The intellect, called booty, is always dissecting and reducing things from what they really are. People create phrases like "No one loves me," but love is not a thing—it is a process. One is either being loving or not being loving. Trying to keep, hang onto, or control love puts one in the mind, and the mind will never make a person happy.
The mind is like technology—a tool useful for strategizing and making things happen in business. However, when people identify as their mind and believe their thoughts are their own, they become trapped because those thoughts have existed for thousands of years.
Thoughts have always been available. What determines which thoughts arise is not the individual but how the antenna of physiology is used. Like cable or satellite channels, all frequencies and thoughts are available. Changing the channel changes the content—comedy, horror, epic films, or drama. A collapsed body tunes into different frequencies than a high-energy body. Higher energy frequencies bring different thoughts. When frustrated or angry, lousy thoughts naturally appear.
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