Taking control: Peace comes with the renewing the mind!

A butterfly was a worm before! Renewing your mind is
allowing  total transformation! 

The ultimate goal of any person is attaining sustainable peace with self, family, community and the world at large. Renewing the mind is finding a sustainable strategy to understand peace and its functional role, which directly contributes to ideal relationships, health and wealth.

Peace defined!

Peace is the emotional state wherein a human being experiences love of self – acceptance of who you are. It pertains to acknowledging the Creator and His creation; thus embracing others and non-human inhabitants of planet earth. Peace therefore starts with individual being and become evident in social interaction with others. Harmonious environment supports ideal health because strife leads to stress which is the source of various illnesses. Since peace is the byproduct of unconditional love, it is key ingredient in maintaining lasting relationships. It also supports economical prosperity by enabling individuals to access available resources; thus generating social harmony between national and international exchange of goods and services.

The concept of renewing the mind!

Mankind is a spirit being because he is created in the likeness of his Creator. The spirit self is characterized by love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. A human being has a soul; the part that consists of the mind, will and emotions. The physical man has carnal nature which is characterized by sensual tendencies that seeks own pleasure and often contribute to social strife. The soul being a middle man could therefore be aligned to the spirit self and displays the positive characteristics or to the flesh and manifest in negative behavior.  For the soul to permanently pursue positive nature a person must make a conscious effort to renew his or mind.

Why renewing the mind is beneficial!

Renewing the mind is learning and adopting full responsibility of embracing peace through unconditional acceptance of self and others. According to medical studies, we suffer from various form of illness due to stress, and lifestyle diseases. For example cancer results from prolonged emotional pain, wrong eating and other harmful habits like abuse of substance. On the other hand when a person adopts a positive attitude towards life, illness could be reversed gradually.  When a person changes his/her thoughts, words and action from negative to positive, meaning disallowing negativity, the body is able to heal itself. The function of the mind is to sensors all thoughts. Any recurring thought is regarded as important regardless of whether it is negative or positive. A renewed mind is able to:

1.   Think positively: You consciously abandon destructive thoughts.

2.   Feel and maintain peace: You seek spiritual enlightenment wherein peace is your ultimate goal.

3.   Act with to manifest love: Absence of strife allows you to feel love and distribute it through loving self and others unconditionally.

4.   Receive with open mind: Change from seeing weakness to choosing to see strength in self and others; thus allowing growth to abound.

A renewed mind is one that is trained to align to the spirit self.  The result is harmony between mankind and the environment which is conducive to longevity and prosperity. When your thoughts, words and actions are aligned to that of the Creator, wisdom and peace abounds.

Taking control: How gratitude affect your health, wealth and relationships!

Gratitude is a lifestyle of appreciation wherein you choose to see good in you first, others and what life has offered. Gratitude positively affect your health, wealth and relationships and therefore is worthy of your attention to learn in order to change your life.

How gratitude impact your life positively!

Gratitude is one of the learned behaviours of people who seek spiritual enlightenment; the state of being aware of the values of the positive mind.  It is therapeutic in the sense that it maintains happiness which reverses illness like cancer.  Gratitude supports holistic wellness as follows:

1.      Wealth

·        It attracts wealth.  Grateful people get excited when they engage in business and they position themselves to succeed.  They have great tenacity to pursue their goals; as a result they increase their positive vibration towards attracting people and incidents that supports wealth.

·        It enables celebration of occurring incidents. Naturally positive emotion wears off within a short period. This emotional state could be greatly improved when appreciation is applied and result in keeping the emotion of the moment alive through daily affirmations. For an example, the euphoria of a new car will stay alive when you appreciate its benefits daily as you use it; thus allowing your state of joy to extend into the near and distant future.  

2.      Health

·        It blocks negative emotions.  Gratitude is a positive emotion which supports life.  Grateful people do not harbour negative emotions like anger, resentment and regrets because their philosophy is based on focusing on positive thinking.

·        Enables stress resilience.  Those who practice gratitude overcome traumatic experiences because they tend to find good in unpleasant situations.  For example, rather than engaging in road rage, it is ideal to be grateful that you avoided accident which could have caused bodily harm or damaged your car.  It has been proven that even when injured, grateful people recover faster because they appreciate life.

3.      Relationships

·        Readily forgives.  Relationships have a common hurdle – inability to let go offences. We all have relationships and because we are not always present to avoid engaging in negative thinking, we fail to maintain peace.

·        It lowers absenteeism in schools.  According to studies, students who were introduced to and practice gratitude had improved grades because they learnt to appreciate their teachers and have learned to be self-directed.  They tended to realize and appreciate that teachers spend hours preparing for lectures and marking assignments.

·        Supports environment.  Spiritually enlightened people understand the creation and their role to nurture the nature. They are aware of the gift of life and the need for mankind to co-exist with other species.

Gratitude is a practice of pure love hence is an ideal for holistic wellness.  It opens doors for success in wealth through increased vibrations. It improves relationships because it block negative thinking and encourages unconditional acceptance of self, others and environment.  The physical body operates at optimum level when is saturated with love which is demonstrated by gratitude.

Taking control: Learn to be compassionate and not judgmental!

Learning to be compassionate is one of the first principles of spiritual enlightenment because its root is love. Compassion empowers you to run in a positive lane wherein negativity is banned. It is a state of humanity that complies with the law of love that governs the whole creation.

The principle of compassion defined!

Compassion is a value which enables a person to assume an ideal state of seeking to apply unconditional positive regard to all people even to unlovable ones. Unlovable people are those who are generally unconscious and may not even be aware that they are negatively charged and bring the worse behavior in other people.  Compassion seeks to see the good in other people and always find ways to bring the best self first and in others.  It starts with deep determination to focus on identifying own strengths in order to increase and maintain the positive energy so that it could be the light that illuminate even the darkest environment.  

The values of being compassionate!

The value of being compassionate is ability to attract positivity in your life because you have saturated yourself with so much positive energy that you:

1.    Attract positive resources such as people who could offer you knowledge or skill or connect you with influential people who could speed up your identified goals.

2.    Get ushered in favorable situations that qualify you and position you to overcome any hurdles that could derail or curtails your progress.

3.    Focus on spiritual growth that ensures connectivity with the Higher Source wherein you access deeper wisdom and knowledge of your purpose, which brings personal fulfillment and intrinsic motivation to continue to pursue good.  

How to be compassionate!

You cannot give what you do not have! The first step is to identify if you have a potential to be a compassionate person:

1.    On a scale of 1 to 10 how often do you ‘catch’ yourself describing yourself with negative words? How often do you do the same to other people?

2.    Recall your childhood environment and try to describe it as objectively as possible; writing down happy and unhappy incidents and the people in them.

3.    Recall your attitude towards your teachers in various stages and how you view their inputs in your life and write down short sentences so that you do not get caught in cover-up sentences that confuse you in assessing how you really feel.

4.    Generally, are you introvert or extrovert person? How do people affect you generally?

5.    What is your attitude about the role of people in your life currently?

6.    What is your desire regarding your relationship with other people?

Helpful tips about developing compassionate attitude!

1.    The guiding principles of ideal life are to love your Creator with all your heart and to love others as yourself! If you do not know how, consider finding out who you are and you will learn that your Creator is love and you have potential love because you are made in His likeness!

2.    If mankind is energy, it means the other person is also energy and therefore if you project negative energy you are harming yourself. 

3.    You are what you believe!  If you see yourself as loving, powerful and seeking to empower others into being compassionate, you have found a way of life that honors your Creator whose mission is to not judge you, but love you unconditionally.  The starting point is seeking your true identity as a spiritual being whose Creator is a Spirit and therefore become aware that compassion is a spiritual function and being judgmental in not who you are.

You take control of your life when you stir yourself from the deep sleep of unconsciousness and engage in learning about your true identity.  You cannot become your best self when you do not even know your make-up.  Mankind is a powerful being because he resembles the Creator of the whole universe which you are part of. 

Taking control: Love and faith prepare the heart to surrender!

Love is one law through which we must all learn to conform to and trust the Creator to reveal their power to maintain connectivity with Him.  Faith that He knows what is best for us; ushers us into transcending peace and holistic wellness.

Love and faith defined.

Love is the positive energy that defines your spirituality; the completeness which characterize the source from which mankind comes from.  Faith is unfathomable trust and enabling mechanism that is necessary to maintain connectivity and divinity of our higher self.  Love and faith therefore co-exist to maintain access to the powerful and all knowing Creator, whose name is Love.

The concept of surrendering.

Surrendering is yielding to what is through the power of being fully present to the reality.  It is a spiritual technique that enables a person not to apply resistance because that which you resist, you attract.  This then says you maintain your power over negative circumstances through conscious application of the principle of acceptance of your environment. This does not mean allowing the negative energy to invade your inner self. It simply says you must learn to observe negativity without attaching your emotions; thus maintaining your power over such circumstances.

How love and faith apply to overcoming challenges!

Maintaining love is a personal decision.  This means not allowing anything to steal your ability to function in love and applying it in all situations. Yes, it is possible if you learn to be conscious of your driving motives.  For an example, have you caught yourself reacting to a situation?  How did you realize that you reacted and not responded to the situation? Consider the following: You are in a doctor’s waiting room with other patients, all quietly reading something. Suddenly someone pushes a door open and starts talking about the current political scandal.  You can:

a)   React by annoyingly hush that person and start lecturing him to keep quite.  The tendency is to go on to display your grievance for respecting other people’s right for maintaining their peaceful state. 

b)   Alternatively, you can respond to disturbance by looking at this person with conditional compassion:

      He is not seriously ill and feels like talking.

      He is not cultured and do not know how to handle public places.

      He is not mentally well, so he could have done better!

c)    Responding denotes simply keeping your cool and not allowing any disturbance to steal your peaceful state of being (which means be- in- God).

The first two items are reactions of differing degree: The first is a clear negative reaction that shows absence of the consciousness and self control.  Reaction equates you and associates you to the scene at hand; thus reducing your ability to maintain your peace and self control.  The second is still negative reaction. The difference is that you are silently disturbed and are reacting by being judgmental.  The last state of calmness reveals consciousness which surrender to the change of environment without allowing your peaceful emotions to be altered by outside factors.  You are able to maintain peace because it is your functioning principle. It is choosing to control your thoughts for you are the only one who has access to them.

Taking control means ability to maintain your power of surrendering to circumstances through being alert to monitor the nature of your thoughts.  Ego wants to be in control by applying forceful approach to maintain its ideal environment; anything contrary tends to flip into negativity. The principle of applying unconditional love to yourself first then to others will elevate your sustainable access and connectivity to your Creator from whom your peacefulness is guaranteed.

  

Taking control: Be not afraid; only believe!

Believing is accepting something to be true using your mind because you are convinced logically; or using your heart (spirit) because you discern the truth in the spiritual realm. When you seek spiritual enlightenment, you have to shelf your intellect system and engage the pure you, the spiritual self.

 The first experience of your spirituality starts with believing that you are related with God in a very overwhelming way which you will recognize is not from figuring it out; but comes from within the spiritual domain.  My native language has a saying that you have two hearts; meaning two sources from where you obtain knowledge.  This knowing could only be defined as a revelation of who you are and connection with your Creator; whose presence clearly reveals your unclean nature versus His and therefore gently ushers you into repentance.  This spiritual encounter will enable you to know that you cannot understand the Creator through your little mind.  You can only discern Him in your spiritual self where He transforms you as it was the case when Jesus was conceived by the Virgin Mary.  The revelation will bring awareness of the great power within you which in ordinary language could be termed fear; yet it is not scary.  It could therefore only be defined as a reverence; an amazing admiration and respect that prompt you to engage in adulation.

The second principle of spiritual enlightenment is entrusted in believing. You cannot connect with your Creator without faith. In fact, without faith it is impossible to please Him. This deep conviction is then decoded and expressed through your intellect faculty by confessing with your mouth that which is happening in your spirit self.  This is how we are created to operate: The spirit self should dictates to the mind what we ought to do and not the other way round. Let me explain! Fear comes when your mind cannot decipher logical response to the matter at hand, thus causing conflict.  It is for this reason that the word of assurance in the Bible is not to fear because the presence of God and communication with Him happens in your spirit. Although it does not condemn, it reveals the ugliness of sinful nature in you and becomes a form of guidance into the godliness.

Fear is also the opposite of faith and this is why it is a basic pointer of knowing who is speaking in your spirit self.  God is a Spirit of light and connects with your spirit self and knock through hearing His Word until you get a revelation of who He is.  When you respond positively, you get this overwhelming love to Him, which manifests in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  These are new attributes of a new nature you acquire when you allow Him in your heart and are intended to enable you to love other people. You see; this is important because you cannot have a relationship with God when you have negative emotions regarding other people.  This is an on-going spiritual growth in your journey of salvation.

You could be one of successful people in this world, having abundance of material wealth.  What I have just explained above is one chapter you must pay attention to. It is one that matters because without the revelation of your Creator, you are poor and it is likely that you are trying to fill the emptiness in your life with lots of entertainment. You will have rest when you seek Him! He is loving and will never judge you regardless of what you have done! Do not be afraid to seek Him; only believe that he loves you unconditionally! Remember, you are the cherry on top of all His creation!