How to Nurture Your Mind
The mind is a powerful temple that holds information beyond our conscious capacity.
It holds our thoughts, memories, subconscious needs, personality, and helps us to operate through our senses and move our body around the space we inhabit.
To some, the mind is simply a part of our body that gives us information and feeds us important aspects of our life.
But the mind is more than that. It’s a life force, everything that we do and act on is a result of how it gets processed in our brain and filtered through our past experiences.
The mind is an active force in how we live our lives and it needs to be nurtured.
To nurture our mind we must first give it grace and gratitude
for all it endures and for all the work it does for us.
While the mind can trick us and tell us lies, it doesn’t work alone in that. It doesn’t do those things to hurt us. The mind thinks it’s protecting us because that’s what our ego tells it to do. But we have the power to become aware of which thoughts are true and untrue.
At that point, it is not about getting angry or frustrated with our mind (as it only knows what has seemed to help us best in life) but to honor it with the work it’s done and gently let it understand that those “lies” are no longer needed because you are moving past your ego.
To nurture our mind we must be patient. Too often we get frustrated when we can’t remember something, can’t understand something, are doing things that end up hurting us more. But what we must understand in this is that our actions are only a product of what we give power to, what we hold as true.
Our mind is an active participant in all our ventures but one of its main jobs is to give you the information that you have decided to be of importance and of candor.
Being patient with our mind means not pushing it past its threshold and allowing it to rest when it’s telling you it can not supply you with more information or absorb any more.
To nurture our mind we must be gentle. To be gentle means to rest, relax, and rejuvenate. We must slow down physically to rest mentally. If we are constantly putting in effort and working our minds to their limits we will never perform at our fullest ability.
To be gentle you can rest, sleep, detach (in a healthy way), do something you love, practice a new skill, engage in a hobby, get some fresh air.
In neglecting this aspect of nurturing our mind everything else will fall out the window because without gentleness we lose alertness and drive.
There are so many different aspects of the mind, the complexity of it is fascinating. However, if you are to understand anything about how the mind works you must understand that it makes mistakes, is shaped by what we decide is true for ourselves, and needs to be nurtured just as much as your physical body.
Our mind is always a work in progress. Work with it and be gentle with it, even test it, question it. That is where we grow most rapidly.
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