Worry, frustration, confusion, sleeplessness and fear are all components of the chaotic mind, hindering success and making even just one simple goal difficult to achieve.

There is no success in a mind of chaos. You need to attain peace and calmness in the mind in order to encourage positive thoughts.

Sometimes it can be very difficult to manage and control the mind. It may feel that your mind is like a balloon, blown by the wind, taken to any direction and circumstance the breeze takes it. When things turn out well, your mind is contented, but when things go badly, instantly your mind becomes very unhappy.

Because your mind and emotions are connected, a disturbance in one will distract the coordination and harmony of both. For instance, when you get the result or the relationship that you want, such as a partner, a job promotion or a new car, you bond to it very tightly.

However, because often, these possessions and relationships are uncontrollable, the moment that you are separated from all these causes so much pain. And all the negative emotions cause chaos.

Such mood fluctuations arise for the main reason that you’re closely attached to the outside situation. However, when your mind is relaxed, you make an inner room and clearness which enables you to control and manage your mind despite the external situation.

Gradually you develop mental balance, which is a state of the mind that is happy and positive always; however, the confused mind moves back and forth between despondency and excitement.

In meditation, you can achieve a peaceful and calm mind that is free of worries and anxiety, so you can experience happiness, encouraging and attracting positive behavior; a chaotic mind, on the other hand, only attracts negative feelings and behavior, therefore it is a barrier to setting and achieving goals.

With a chaotic mind you will have a hard time experiencing happiness, even when you’re already in the best of circumstances. Constant meditation trains the mind to gradually be more and more cheerful and peaceful, eventually experience balance and happiness, being able to stay positive even in the most complicated or worst situations. This is a state of mind that is very crucial to achieving success.

The mind is like a station, sending out energy or power signals (your beliefs and thoughts). These energy and power patterns are then grasped by the subconscious mind that is responsible for creating the circumstances, situations and events to assist you in achieving what your beliefs, thoughts and goals are.

The subconscious mind never distinguishes what is bad or good for you; it only acts on what instructions it receives from the conscious mind, meaning what your thoughts and beliefs are.

So while there is that desire in you that you want to accomplish a certain goal, if you do not truly believe and truly trust that will be able to, if you, with your chaotic mind constantly think about the reason why you can not achieve something rather than why it will be easy for you to do it, then you will be sending instruction to your “subconscious mind” to establish certain circumstances in which it will be difficult for you to accomplish your goals. This is the reason why negative thoughts should be eliminated and only entertain positive thoughts, all the time.

Constant positive affirmations attract positive situations, and influence the subconscious to create a situation favorable to you. Affirmations are positive thoughts spoken with great trust, faith and absolute power that what you say, you will accomplish.

Remember, first and foremost to keep a focused mind and never entertain negative thoughts. However, should a negative thought enter your mind, block it off with positive thinking and never, ever affirm it. For like the chaotic mind, verbal affirmations can greatly affect your attitude towards accomplishing your goals.

Never be a prisoner of the chaos in your mind. Release all those hurts, frustration and anger that you feel deep inside. Look at the world with a different point of view and believe that you can accomplish anything as long as you have faith that you can.

There is no success in chaos, and chaos will not lead to success. It is balancing the mind, releasing all stress that the mind feels, letting go of all negative thoughts and making a clear image of the life that you want to live, that will bring you success.

© October 1, 2006

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