Train your Mind = Gain Mental Wellbeing and Peace

Achieving happiness is not really difficult IF you do ONE thing: Control the mind.

But the mind isn’t going to let us take over that easily. It’s going to fight you every step of the way.

Controlling the mind requires us to kill our ego. And that takes patience & perseverance.

I have to still work each and every day to not allow my ego to get the better of me. Some days I win, somedays the darn ego wins, lol. But I keep on trying.

Spirituality isn’t easily achieved and the spiritual path is paved with obstacles to challenge us, as if asking us, how bad do you want it.

These 10 steps make the journey possible. I can tell you from personal experience that each and every one of these add up to make me not just better but also at peace! Try them.

Smile upon waking up. Don’t look at the phone. Don’t turn on the radio or television. Smile and remember, it’s a new day to start over and make forward progress on the spiritual journey.
Count every blessing daily. From good health to family and friends and everything in between, every thing we have is a blessing and remembering that is a sure way to keep the spirits up.
Spend time alone each day. This is one of the most important habits I learned and what I have gained from this once-feared and now-desired habit have been greater than I ever imagined.
Give thanks all day. Gratitude shouldn’t be once a year or once a day even. Giving thanks all day is one of the best ways to keep negative thoughts at bay. Gratitude has a way of making us feel better and giving thanks at every opportunity throughout each day gives us a positive lift.
Think positive thoughts. Every time my mind goes in an unwanted direction, I rein it in with positive thoughts about good memories, happy times, and gratitude. Learning to stop a negative thought is another important habit I learned through isolation and deep breathing exercises.
Bury painful memories. The mind is our enemy. It loves to make us unhappy by bringing up painful memories of past mistakes, failures, poor decisions, and lost opportunities. Get out of the negative painful “thought prison” forever by being mindful and staying in the present.
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Write a journal or keep a diary. I believe that writing down how we are feeling can be extremely therapeutic and increase our well-being. I began writing down my thoughts – pouring out all my anger and frustration on paper, just a few years ago. And I found that once I had it out on paper, it felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted off. Experts of the mind may disagree with me, but the important thing here is to never, ever go back and read what you wrote. Instead, I ripped off my older write-ups every few days while I continuing writing new ones.
These days, I have no need to write as frequently or as much because I feel quite peaceful – even though I fall off the spiritual wagon occasionally.
Give of yourself to others. This habit is what makes the world go around. Being of service to others always feels good, no matter how small a deed we do. This is a habit that we must develop so that we can prove our superiority as humans in the universe.
Forgive others. This is very, very difficult – even more difficult than say climbing a mountain bare-feet, lol. When people wrong us, it is so difficult to forgive them. But without forgiving those who have wronged us, we have no hope of ever finding peace. Forgiving others is another daily habit along with gratitude that has brought me more mental peace that I ever had.
Be kind & forgive yourself. And the biggest learning of all, is learning to forgive yourself. Most of us are not willing to do so readily because our mind doesn’t allow us to. It wants to remind us of our past mistakes and blunders and so how can we learn to forgive ourselves if we can’t forget our past misdeeds? But as I state above (and in another blog), the mind is our biggest enemy. It tells us what to think and who to hate – and not to forgive others or ourselves.I’ve learned this habit and made my peace and have forgiven myself for all the failures I’ve faced, poor decisions I’ve made, and the hurts I’ve caused.