The Prisoner of The Mind! Limitation Is Nowhere But In The Mind!

"Men are not prisoners of fate but only prisoners of their own mind"

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm sure you've heard the common saying "think outside the box!" What box are we talking about?  The mind of course! A confinement which has restricted and shut many in, away from their environment and others like prisoners. The mind is not just the seat of thought but a nonmaterial substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based. 

The attitude of every person and the way and manner in which people act, relate, perform etc can be traced to the mind. The life of every man is simply a reality of the mind, the definition of a person is therefore the definition of his mind. No wonder the scripture tells us "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he..." and "...out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." 

The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life and limitation in the mind is limitation in life. The mind is patterned and accustomed according to the information it processes and its experiences which makes the mind conscious and alert. And as such, the mind can interpret, rationalize and decide or conclude! A sound mind is an indispensable tool for living. 

Your experiences and the information you get shape your mind, this is one reason so many persons have been limited in life! Many with terrible experiences and scars end up in depression. That is, a low capacity of a person to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in one's self and others. 

Many continue in this state without the willpower to do anything not even the things they use to do, they become too miserable to be useful to themselves or others. As much as you can control and filter the information you take in, you may have little or

 no control over some of your experiences but then, you can decide what takes hold of your mind in every experience. 

In spite of the fact that we experience sometimes the good and other times the bad, you can choose to gather knowledge, opinions, and skills in each case instead of allowing the disappointments and frustration in bad situations cause you depression. Meanwhile, you can broaden the scope of your mind, flexibility is the key! Though, some persons have refused to be flexible with an effort to protect long age beliefs and values. 

But they fail to realize that one can believe wrongly and that people can also be subjective in their values rather than being objective! Therefore, it pays more to be open to learning by acquisition and experience and of course you should know that no learning process forces one to believe or accept anything but rather, it serves as a means to finding out what you should believe and accept! 

Rigidity is resistance which of course limits you to the primitive you and flexibility is no weakness in any form as some think rather, it makes positive changes possible! Life is dynamic therefore, you must be dynamic in your mind! It is a common saying that "change is inevitable"! Refusing to learn and experience something new is shutting yourself away in a confinement or prison with the keys in your pocket! You should think outside the box. GoodMorningFromIseme

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