The Mind - A Great Analogy

I know that I did not come up with this analogy, but I have been meditating on it lately, and I know that observing this saying will help so many people. The mind is like the rudder of a ship that steers the entire body in the way that you desire. Unfortunately it is an invisible rudder. There are many ways to reach it. Some people listen to tapes while they are sleeping. Some people listen to positive tapes everyday to keep a "positive mindset". I have started sharpening my mind with the Holy Scriptures. I had dismissed this idea a few years ago, but since it was suggested by a missionary friend of mine, I have heeded to the power of "renewing" the mind. The mind has a preset course, usually that course is to run your ship aground. The mind has a sin-consciousness. It is plagued by darkness, fear and lies. Outside of these three things is abundant life: light (illumination or clarity about life), faith (the ability to trust God above all), and truth (the opposite of much that you see, the invisible realm, the opposite of much that you've learned).

I have steered my rudder away from an unhealthy relationship that was going nowhere. It was not an abusive relationship. Quite the contrary, both of us were always very supportive of each other, but I came to realize that I was in love and my significant other was just loving the attention. It took all my strength and the help of God to walk away from that. I felt needed, worthwhile and important because of this relationship. But, in the end, the relationship was going nowhere. It was not going to end in marriage, and I needed to be free in order to welcome new relationships into my life. I spent four years feeding this addiction to sweet affectionate words.

So I have been reading Scriptures from two separate programs (if you can call them that.) One is called The Mind of Christ and the other is a few verses from Joseph Prince's Destined to Reign Devotional. After a few weeks in each, I was able to recognize my worth outside of this semi-loving relationship and walk away.

New Money Masters + Teaching English Grammar

The last five weeks have been the least fun weeks that I can remember since my final semester as an undergrad. No complaining. I keep reminding myself that some people "can't afford" to go to school so they don't get to complain about the teacher or the course load or the all-nighters. I love it. I consider myself very blessed to be able to complain that I don't like a particular brand of bottled water or that the air conditioner is set to low. These are things that are not in some people's lives so they don't get to complain about them.

They get to complain about dirty drinking water, lack of educational opportunities, and the lack of a breeze (because they don't have air conditioning). Oh, that just reminded me it's the official month of giving clean water to people for Charity Water www.charitywater.org. Very cool I donated last year and I plan to donate again this year at the end of the month.

Oh, I wanted to talk about New Money Masters. It's a program that Tony Robbins just started because he wanted to analyze how people that make a lot of money online think and because he wanted to learn the Internet Marketing Game. I signed up for the "free trial'' because the first person that he interviewed was (the evil genius behind most product launches) Frank Kern. So I really liked the material, but again, I am a little bit stuck. Yo necessito el capital de lanzamiento.

It's cool. I got other plans brewing since I went through this giant shift from trying to learn everything and do everything myself to just paying others to do it and actually getting it done:)