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Training The Mind- Your Access to Increase Mental Power

By: Lorelei F When you talk about how to increase mental power, you can get a vision of your mind, working fast and furious at warp speed- solving issues and problems left and right.

Or does increasing mental power happen some other way?

Except that as we enter this new age of enlightenment we begin to see that the mind has a 'mind of its own.' And getting caught up in the obsessive swirl of the mind following its agenda has become what Ekhart Tolle calls society's 'disease' of compulsive thinking. And in actuality what we need to do is quiet the mind, and slow it down so that it can perform its duties when necessary with more power.

How many of you, for instance, have gone through a time of tribulation in your life and have felt the stifling sensation of not being able to escape thinking about the problem. You try a hot bath- still the thoughts continue. You put the TV on- the thoughts sit in the background. You take a jog- your mind continues to churn. You try to sleep- but cannot. Finally desperate, you may seek peace through a sleeping pill- only to wake up still tired and with the same thoughts present. The mind in this sense could be seen as some out-of-control computer. You keep hitting the off button, but it won't turn off. And it doesn't solve the problem you want it to. It just churns away at the problem it wants to focus on- with very little success.

And in this kind of scenario you might even say that there is an enemy in your camp...and the enemy is you. Or better said, your mind. Now this same enemy loves to tell you how inadequate, unworthy, or unworkable you are, and how you are doing it all wrong. Which makes the problem even worse.

So in order to increase mental power, what we actually need to do is train the mind. The mind needs to be trained that it turns on or off at our control, and focuses on the subjects that we desire at any given time- instead of following its own agenda. Which is easier said than done.

However I can tell you truly from my heart that this feat can be accomplished. To give an example, in my life now I am facing a whole host of crises at the same time. I am shifting careers, looking for work, losing my elderly father, and experiencing the regeneration of my old back injury. Most people would call this a recipe for insanity and a good reason to go to bed and not get up again for a while. But I have been very busy training my mind, and so I am living a stable, peaceful, and even quite happy life- despite it all. I have feelings and thoughts, and they come and go, but they do not dominate me.

Today I used a variety of methods to train my mind. I listened to an entrainment CD, then a meditation CD, and then a hypnosis CD. I went for a nature walk, and I called myself to be present to the walk, the air, the sun, and the smells. When my mind stepped in with worries and concerns I thanked it for the thoughts, but I did not follow them. As a rule, I really try to thank and appreciate my mind because I know that my mind, like a misguided child, it is only trying to help.

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