01 Mind – 03 Phases – 03 Capacities
View(s):A newborn is fed on breast milk and he initially cannot walk but as he grows up to become a youth he will no longer be fed on breast milk, instead he will consume solid food and engage in multiple sports activities. When this young man grows up to become a mature adult, rather than eating everything that tastes good which he did as a teenager, he would decide to consume wisely according to a selective plan. He would also plan his lifestyle activities in a manner that he could face life as a strong individual. Similarly, even though a paper boat floats in a tub of water it cannot transport goods in the ocean. The growth pattern of our mind is exactly the same as our body. The mind goes through three stages of development and just as your physical body the capacity of your mind on each stage would be based on what you feed your mind and in the mannerism that it is nurtured during that stage. The sad part is that many stagnate in the same stage rather than developing from one stage to another.
The very first stage is the weak mind. That is when your mind is so weak that the situation becomes a problem. The second version is the growing mind. Whenever your mind is in the process of growing, you tend to see the situation as a challenge. The third mindset is the strong mind. When the capacity of your mind keeps growing and your mind is strong, the situation becomes an opportunity. The same mind is growing through three developmental stages. A weak mind, a growing mind and a strong mind. This nation is full of people who constantly see only the negative side of everything. Media has built a strong hold of these weak minds thus they keep fertilising their negative thought patterns by feeding similar thought patterns of seeing the situation as a problem. I am writing this article with high hopes that the younger generation would read this and keep growing their minds until they see that the situation is not a problem but a challenge which needs to be conquered or as an opportunity that needs to be grabbed with open arms.
I once worked for an entrepreneur who was considered as an unreasonable, inhuman Hitler by all the other managers. Yet, for me, I considered him as a knowledgeable university which was a perfect opportunity for me to learn, develop and enhance my professional capacity. He was a perfectionist. Therefore, I thrived to become a perfectionist myself. He was highly disciplined and that pushed me towards becoming highly disciplined. He possessed positive work ethics and I also thrived to work with ethics. He kept to all his deadlines and so did I learn to keep to my deadlines. He was a practical and result oriented personality. I thrived to become practical and result oriented as well. He was not a problem nor a challenge to me, he was an amazing opportunity I received to grow towards greater heights.
This thinking style of mine led me towards becoming a famous CEO in the country, who fearlessly opposed the famous multinational company known as Unilever. When other people saw Unilever as a problem, I saw Unilever as an ocean of opportunities which I could derive as much as the market share. As many of you are aware Nature’s Secrets had 50% of the market share in Sri Lanka during my time, when I was heading the brand for Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as the Head of Marketing for South Asia. Our competitors were multinationals and other local giants. Life becomes a problem, challenge or an opportunity based on how you feed and nurture your mind. Even at the age of twenty five (25), if you are still lifting 5Kg in the gym for your biceps, then there is a serious problem with your capacity. It is an indicator that you have not focused enough on developing your muscles by continuously improving the weight you can behold. Similarly, if you do not develop your mind muscles, you will never be able to lift the heavy pressures and burdens in life.
There are certain aspects that you need to focus on, in order to develop a strong mind which sees the situation as an opportunity. First, you must develop a protective mind gate which will shut down before corruptive thoughts, disabling negative seeds from entering your mind garden. The mind is a garden which needs careful cultivation. You must possess a well-protected entry gate, fruit bearing seeds, a continuous supply of fertiliser and energy, timely pruning, uprooting the weeds and constant efforts to cultivate. The reason many have weak minds is because they consider life as a problem. They open their mind gates towards every garbage that is roaming in the vicinity of their eyes and ears and allow them to get in through their mind gates and reside in there. These negative seeds are seeds that hinder your success.
They continuously keep on thinking about them on a daily basis thereby they fertilise those negative seeds to grow from a little sapling into a plant and into a tree and further a gigantic tree. During the process not only have they self-developed the seeds of negativity, blame, fear, anger, self-condemnation, procrastination, giving up and hatred but they also prefer keeping company with similar people who aggravate the growth of these negative seeds. Our Brain is like our body. When you feed it with excessive junk food, it gets bad cholesterol, excessive amounts of sugar leads towards diabetes and too much of artificial preservatives can damage your skin tissues. Similarly, constantly feeding destructive thoughts will make your mind weak, numb and paralysed. This is when misery, anxiety and depression take control of your mind.
In that case every situation in life is sure to become a problem to you. Can you name a single person who doesn’t have any stormy situations in life? During the time we didn’t have a lot of money, we had less stormy situations and life demanded less from us. Now, we have money but the storms are also equally bigger and the demands have also become greater. Therefore, it is not merely about the amount of wealth you possess but how you cultivate your mind and elevate the capacity of your mind from an infant to a grown up where you would be able to see the situations in life not as problems or challenges but as opportunities that elevate into the next level of success.
Similarly, when you grow good thoughts, be diligent about the tiny weeds that try to grow amidst your positive thoughts. Uproot those weeds at their early stage as a sapling so that you do not allow it to grow. The tiny negative thoughts that grow up to become heavy negative thought circuits are difficult to uproot once they have already become the default responsive modes for the stormy situations. Therefore, keep training your mind until it reaches a steady level where your mind sees the situation as an opportunity.
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