The main feature of the mind is that while a person is awake, he must be busy with something. If a person does not consciously point out the necessary work to him, he will think about anything, caring not about the value or quality of his thoughts, but about their variety and quantity. Most people cannot concentrate their thoughts even for the shortest amount of time. If the mind feels that a person has released or loosened the restraining bridle, then he can turn for him into a source of many and serious calamities. When the mind is directed not towards perfection, not towards the transformation of its lower nature, but towards a more refined satisfaction of its needs, then this leads not to good and good, but to destruction.
The whole fate of a person depends on the direction of the mind. Either it will grow, develop and improve, or it will degrade.
Of all the great energies that exist in space, thought is the most powerful energy that has both creative and destructive power. A person, as a thinking being, uses this great power throughout his life at every moment of his waking state, not understanding either the meaning or the consequences of his thinking both for him personally and for the entire universe.
Until a person realizes that he is as responsible for his thoughts as for his actions, he cannot take a single step towards happiness, self-realization and God-creation.
The power of thought lies in the fact that it sets in motion the elemental forces of nature, which in themselves are chaotic and inert and require, to bring them into action, the impulse that is given to them by the thought of man and every thinking being.
Your mind, even apart from your desire, constantly radiates mental energy into space, creative or destructive, therefore the mind in the full sense of the word is a factory of good and evil. Once a thought has been released, it will certainly materialize.
There are few people who know the meaning of thought and are so spiritually developed, who send only beautiful and good thoughts into space. In the same way, there are not so many people who are exceptionally spiteful, consciously breathing hatred of everything around them, sending only poisoned arrows of their thoughts.
An ordinary average person, like the vast majority on earth, thinks in a continuous ribbon of small, weak, vague and vague thoughts, in which there may not be strong hatred or enmity, or even exceptional egoism, but only trifles and rubbish of everyday life.
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The mind acts like a magnet
The mind is like a magnet, it attracts and repels, and the nature of its attraction and repulsion can be determined by yourself. If you observe the thoughts that come into your mind, you will notice that they are in the nature of those internal dialogues that you usually encourage in yourself.
The mind attracts those thoughts that correspond to its usual activities. But if you consciously make a choice for some time using the power of intention, then soon the mind will begin to choose on its own, following the path already outlined.
Thus, destructive thoughts will not penetrate the mind, while creative ones will always be attracted.
Most people are too susceptible to imposed programs of behavior, collective thought-forms, but this susceptibility is from weakness, and not from consciously giving oneself to higher influences. Therefore, it is helpful to explore how you can make your normal state positive and how you can make it negative. The habit of concentration itself helps to strengthen the mind, so that he can easily control and choose thoughts from among those that come to him from outside; It has already been explained above how the mind can be taught to automatically repulse all destructive influences.
But we must add to what has been said that when a negative thought penetrates into the mind, it is better not to fight directly with it, but to take advantage of the fact that the mind can think about only one object at a time, and direct it immediately to some elevated thought, and the negative will thus be expelled.
Many people lose whole years fighting negative thoughts and destructive programs, while quietly engaging the mind with pure, joyful, constructive thoughts would leave no room for bad ones.
Moreover, the mind, attracting vibrations to itself that do not respond to evil, becomes itself gradually positive and impervious to such thoughts.
The method of replacing one thought with another can be used with success in various cases. If an unpleasant thought about a person arises in the mind, it must immediately be replaced by a thought about the virtue possessed by that person, or about some good deed by him.
If the mind is overwhelmed with anxiety, it is necessary to direct it to the thought of the light, the meaning of life, the highest ideals.
If some particularly unwanted thought persistently invades, then it is important to use a special weapon: you need to choose a dictum, mantra or formula that contains spiritual creative power, and when an annoying thought sneaks into the mind, repeat the quotations and reflect on them. After a week or two, the annoying thought stops bothering you.
It is good to always have at the ready some high idea, a deep saying that inspires a valiant life. Every day, before plunging into the sea of everyday worries, we must equip the mind with this shield - a good thought. If a few sublime phrases are repeated several times early in the morning, they will be imprinted in the brain and come to mind repeatedly throughout the day.