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Chapter 4
Training the Mind
Change of diet will not help a person who will not change his thoughts. When a person makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
- As a Man Thinketh
In the previous chapters, we have learned how powerful the mind is, including both the positive and negative way of thinking. We have found out their similarity – that they both have the ability to construct reality in our lives – and their differences – that positive thinking creates positive reality, while negative thinking creates negative reality. These ways of thinking are continuously fighting over a significant position in the mind, in which the one who will succeed will be taken into action by the individual. Therefore, positive thinkers deal with life’s challenges confidently and are more likely to attain success than negative thinkers since they look at everything unconstructively.
Comparing the two kinds of thinking, obviously, what we would prefer more is to possess the positive power of thinking so that we may create a certain and stable destiny. Of course, nobody wishes for life’s bitterness. We all want our happy endings, don’t we? But whether we like it or not, our minds keep on generating all sorts of thoughts, even those that may cause our failure in the end. We can never stop nor avoid these unhealthy thinking. But don’t worry. It is not yet a hopeless case. What we can do is to train our minds to focus on the good things rather than the bad, the happy moments rather than the sad, on what we have rather than what we don’t have.
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