Manage the Mind
Manage the Mind
Learn to tame and manage the mind. Watch as beautiful things start to happen!
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Invest Time
It is crucial that you prioritise time for yourself if you want to learn to be an observer of the emotions and thoughts your mind churns out.
After I left my corporate job, the easiest option would have been to start another job as quickly as possible and invest any severance money. However, I made the decision to prioritise my well-being for a while instead of making money.
With hindsight, this was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
If had opted to go back to a corporate job quickly, I would have missed out on a truly wonderful personal transformation and experience, which resulted in living a life of purpose, aligned to my true nature.
I cannot stress enough the importance of giving yourself enough time to learn about yourself, and to heal and balance yourself, before embarking on any new adventure.
Two weeks holiday here and there are not enough to discover who you are and heal after many years of living a fast-paced stressful life.
I understand that is it not possible for everyone to do this, but if some sacrifices have to be made it is definitely worth the time.
Be prepared for mind chatter. It tells you:
‘Of course you cannot take one year out. You should start working again as soon as possible. You are forty! You will never get a job at the same level. There are younger people coming through. You have to invest the money to make more money’.
Meditation will help you become an observer of your thoughts.
Stay true to your inner intuition about how much time you need to heal to become stronger physically, mentally and emotionally.
Your gut instinct will tell you how much time is needed.
I took about fifteen months of introspection and transformation at many levels before I took the first steps on a new project aligned with my purpose in life.
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Expect a Rollercoaster Ride
Be under no illusion.
Learning to tame the mind after years and years of the mind operating at a crazy pace in the corporate world is not easy.
After years of living your life like a task list, with secondary school and exams, university and exams, it is difficult to shift to getting a job, delivering work for your boss, getting married and having kids and suddenly stepping into uncertainty with no immediate goal in sight.
To live your life without filling your day with stuff to do may seem like a good dream, but actually it can be hard.
Your mind has been programmed into telling you, ‘You shouldn’t be sitting around with time to spare. Your day should be filled up with things to do’.
The mind cannot seem to handle not having anything to analyse or plan.
Meditation helps you to calm the mind by becoming aware of your thoughts.
Setting Goals
The analytical mind likes to set and achieve goals.
After I quit my job, my mind was still untamed, so it would go on auto-pilot and start making goals and task lists.
Refrain from doing this, as you are only filling your day, leaving yourself without any free time.
It is important you have time in the day where you do nothing and learn to be at peace with what comes into your mind.
The only focus areas I had were family (being with the children more, cooking, taking care of the house), my well-being (through exercise and eating better) and sorting out finances.
It was difficult to slow the pace to which I had become accustomed for twenty years.
Eventually, though, it does start to happen, as you learn to be an observer of the mind, watching thoughts and emotions come and go.
It is important to have time on your hands and to just be and let go.
Slowly, over a period of time, I learnt to accept that it was okay to let go and go along with the flow.
Limit Technology
De-stress the mind by stopping social media, limiting phone, laptop usage and any other form of technology first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
It was a truly liberating experience, not being tied to the laptop and not constantly checking email or the phone in the evenings.