Opening Words

All this is one big experiment.

I'm attempting to distill all the information I've learned over the past ten years into easy-to-understand and actionable items that:

1. gives one a greater understanding as to how the mind operates,

2. how the mind plays an important role in our daily existence, and

3. how to take control of the mind so that it ultimately serves us rather than controls us.

We've all fell victim to our mind taking us wherever it wants to go and experiencing uncontrollable thoughts, behaviors, and emotions.

Well what if there are proven actions/steps one can take to ultimately gain control over their mind?

There are.

And just as one who regularly exercises and eats properly attains physical health, so can we attain a level of mental and internal strength by following certain activites that lead to it.

This is not an attempt to claim "one size fits all," but to share a number of the virtually limitless means of doing so; all with the aim of you discovering a method that works for you.

Just as different physical exercises are more suitable for certain people than others, the same is true for mental exercises.

Yes, the aim may be the same of gaining control over one's mind, (just as the aim of all physical exercises is physical health), but the means of doing so differ to the temperament of the individual.

I'm not here to "tell you what to do." I'm here to share with you the possibilities and let you decide for yourself.

The rewards of gaining control over one's mind are many (which will be discussed here in time), but primarily the rewards are that of maintaining a sense of calm in one's life and embodying a sense of empowerment.

As one begins to gain control, the throes of life are seen and experienced as temporary happenings, no longer gaining control over our sense of identity.

With this, a sense of empowerment naturally follows.

As these throes of life lose their power over us, we begin to recongize we have the capability to direct our mind as we so choose, thereby allowing us to directly and deliberately alter our life experience.

This is power.

Subsequently, the more we experience and exercise this power, it becomes evident that deliberate use of our mind far exceeds being thrown around by the wishes of the world around us.

We, in a sense, become the dictator of our life experience.

Not to be frightened by the word dictator– we don't control others, we control ourselves.

We gain the ability to choose how we respond to life's situations.

We gain the ability to choose how we act in any given moment.

Our behaviors are controlled by something... and if not us, then who? or what?

We must recognize the capability we have within ourselves to be in ultimate control.

Sure, there is resistance at the onset (and perhaps throughout all of one's life), but this resistance lessens as we remind ourselves of and experience our inner power.

It is of no use for you to blindly believe me or any other teachings attempting to explain the use or power of the mind, but to act.

For it is in action alone that we may experience truth.

Begin to explore the contents and workings of your mind, for in it you will find the source of all your troubles... but perhaps more importantly, the source of all your solutions.

Much Love,

T