Is Your Mind Your Friend or an Enemy?

Do you feel that your true desires are in conflict with your mindset?

Like, you really want to explore a new career, start a new business, change the industry or job or want to step out of a negative relationship, but you don’t take any action because your MIND stops you to do so.

And, then you make excuses such as “I am not ready yet” or “I am not sure what is ahead of me, if I make this risky choice” and so on. These excuses or conflicting thoughts are basically your ‘FEAR BASED’ mental voices which keep you in the defense mode, and you remain stuck in the limited patterns and receive similar outcomes and experiences in your life.

WHY YOUR MIND KEEPS YOU IN DEFENSIVE MODE?

To understand this clearly, you need to understand the nature of your mind. Mind is a medium of perception and you perceive and differentiate things due to the dissecting nature of mind. Without mind, there is no way you can perceive a thought or emotion, make choices and take actions.

Your mind absorbs information and store it in the form of memory, based on the intensity of emotion that you experienced in the past, such as pain or pleasure. Later, it influences your decision making by bringing to your awareness of the consequences of a certain action based on the information stored as past experiences. This all happens between the different layers of your mind which we also know as to be conscious and subconscious mind.

The mind keeps on building a defense wall for you to remain safe and in the comfort zone. 

Through various studies, we recognize that more than 95% percent of our daily actions are the result of our subconscious mind’s conditioning. 

The various experiences you went through since childhood up till today are the reason of your mental structure influencing your perceptions, choices and habits.

Each and every one of us on this perceive the information and thoughts differently and make choices based on their individual mental conditioning. This gives us the opportunity to understand and respect others’ opinion and not get upset or angry if they disagree with us. 

Now, the question arises “SHOULD WE STAY IN THE DEFENSIVE MODE”?

or

CAN WE OVERRIDE IT?

Well, the work of the mind is to perceive, create feelings to trigger actions and build memories to store information which then gets retrieved when a matching stimulus is triggered. This leads to perception of thoughts based on your past experiences which causes you to feel exact similar emotion of the past too. 

Each thought has a neural network in your brain and when a thought is perceived in a particular manner, the neural network in the brain gets fired up and releases the chemistry related to the emotional experience you are having at the moment.

The amount of feel good chemical (serotonin) or stressful hormones that you experience in your body is a direct result of how the mind is habituated of perceiving the thoughts. 

This holds true even if your mind is only having a visualization experience and not an actual experience. Mind doesn’t differentiate between an actual or a virtual experience. That is why MIND HAS ITS LIMITATIONS and you don’t really need to succumb to its working and need to step out and live in immense potentiality field.

For that to happen, you need to know the answer to the most important question in existence, which is, “WHO AM I” and to step out of the usual norms of mind and take active charge of your life choices “based on your deep and true desires” .

You need to build DETACHMENT WITH YOUR MIND

And, to do that you need to know the difference between “You” and “Your mind”

I hope this is making some sense to you. Because, as long as you are identified with your mind, it is difficult to take charge of mind and create conscious thoughts that are going to be more in tune with your actual desires rather an effect of some past negative experiences.

Even if you don’t have the answer for “who am I” right now in this moment, you must know WHAT YOU ARE NOT. 

You are NOT YOUR BODY AND YOUR MIND. 

This understanding itself is a very big opener for a totally new understanding of the self, life and ability to fearlessly express your truest potential and attain deeper fulfillment.

When you are self-realized, navigating mind towards your actual goals becomes way easier because you build DETACHMENT and then you slowly get on the path of DE-CONDITION your mind and let go of what is not required such as subconscious fear, insecurities, self-sabotaging emotions and lack of self-belief.

This process is the most important one because it deeply shifts your perceptions and retrain your mind to STEP OUT OF THE COMFORT ZONE.

And, the last phase is the manifesting of your desired life by DESIGNING. It involves purifying the mind and directing it towards the ultimate vision of who you want to be. 

It involves clearly defined purpose, goal setting, accountability, structure and discipline to achieve self-actualization (highest human potential & contribution)

The process of DESIGNING is about conscious living that generate true happiness, never ending enthusiasm, ample of abundance and a sense of deeper emotional satisfaction. This involves embracing wisdom, new ideas and techniques, focus on cultivating new habits and actions that bring new experiences for your mind to store. We also call this retraining phase.

A Quick Exercise:

Here’s a little practice that you can do. Be fearless for a few minutes and write down all the crazy desires you have, all the abundance that you want to experience and all that you want to create in your lifetime. Don’t question it. Simply write down. Now, look at that sheet and notice how your thoughts flow and pay attention to them. 

You might experience thoughts that immediately rule out the possibility of manifesting your true desires or they could cause more confusion.

The experience of these thoughts is based on your past conditioning. 

if they flow more towards fear, then you are diseased with DEFENSIVE MINDSET. 

Unfortunately, when you allow the fear to overpower, then you remain where you are. 

But, if your desire is very deeply engrained and you are truly looking to manifest and experience it, then YOU HAVE TO GO BEYOND YOUR MENTAL CONDITIONING.

Impossible is nothing but a mental construct. 

We can be whatever we want to be but the only thing we need is a supportive mind and for that you need to learn how to 1. DETACH 2. DECONDITION 3. DESIGN your mind

In my private coaching practice and through my various workshops, I help my clients explode their truest potential and consciously create a life that they feel connected with deeply. If you are looking for guidance, coaching and support in your life transformation and manifest a life that unleash your true potential and induce natural inspiration, fun and fulfillment, then you can sign up for a DISCOVERY SESSION with me and get guided immediately.

I hope this thought-provoking insight and information opened your mind to new possibilities and allow you to become introspective of your thoughts, emotions and actions, dig deeper into your being and instead of just ignoring your true deep desires, embrace it fully.

The rest is a continuous journey of beating the defense mode of conditioned mind and get on the path of self exploration and expansion of your innate abilities so you can use your limited time on this planet with its absolute fulfillment and happiness

Love,

Simi Arora.