Mind over Matter January 3, 2009

Teach Me to Fish Series: Mind over Matter

(Something I started a few months ago and would love to continue!)

I guess one of the most important factor in working towards success in everything in life – is the mind. Due to our conditioning, we will always look at our past to guide us into our future. Saying that is we failed that exam before, how can we got A’s now? We’ve been heart-broken in love before, how can we find true love? We’ve been burnt in business before, how can we make it work?

We let our past dictates our future and our current condition to be the guide as to what we can and we cannot do.

This is a seriously misleading thought!

All of us has been given this amazing tool called the mind. All we need to do is fully utilise it. However, not may people know the full capability of their mind, let alone to use it in the way it is meant to be used.

The first book I read about mind is The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy. The book blew my mind away and changed my life forever. I was 18 at that time and I could not stop speaking to my friends about it. Most of them didn’t understand what I was talking about though..

The book talkes about this amazing side of our brain called the Subconscious Mind. I seriously believe, learning about your mind first – is the first step to fully utilise it and to achieve maximum results. So grab those books, read them up. Learn about your own mind.

All successful people, in academic, in love life, in career, in business – they started from a single image/thought that they have in their mind. That they will be and are successful. CEO’s of companies pictured himself being CEO waaay before he knew what CEO really does. Happily married couple envision themselves in happy marriage state. Good students imagined all their A’s listed down on the result sheet months before they even sat for the exam. Successful business owner taste their sweet success even before it materialised.

They all use the power of their mind to imagine their success as how they want it to be.

Walt Disney is a great and over-used (sorry!) example of the person whose mind power is larger than life. Disneyland started only in his mind and for nearly 50 years now the product of his imagination has entertained many people from all around the world! He passed away even before he’s able to witness his project, but his imagination lives on. Such is the power of your mind!

Mickey Mouse is one of the first creation of Walt Disney and who doesn’t know Mickey Mouse!

Once you started learning about your mind, once you started believing in this amazing tool your Creator has bestowed upon you, once you are able to start using your mind the way it meant to be used – your life will never be the same again.

It was never too late to start learning about your mind. Get crackin people!

The next entry then would be about My Story and my experience in using the principle of Mind over Matter. Stay tuned!

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Naziehah © Copyright 2009

Bringing back Optimism January 3, 2008

I watched Kite Runner a few days ago after raving for weeks about the excellent book written by Khaled Hosseini. But I am not going to write a full review about it here, because that’s the job of this ghoyye guy!

What I wanted to point out is this little dialouge spoken by Rahim Khan to Amir in the scene where adult Amir went to see him in Pakistan. It is also written in the book in more details. I can’t really remember, but it is something about ‘American’s Optimism’. About how Amir has been influenced by the American way of thinking – optimistically.

I have always been quite a believer in the power of thoughts and mind power. I believe what we always think about – will become our reality. So, if it’s true that American are generally more optimistic than the rest of the world – is that so coincidental that America has the most millionaire and also the highest standard of living? In this book I am reading now, it mentions that ‘You seldom come across an American who is not optimistic’. I don’t know how true is that in reality because I have never been to the US myself. But from their movies and their books and their motto of  ‘living the American Dream’, I can take an informed decision, that it is might be true.

It has always been my personal belief, that people need to be more optimistic. I guess some culture had it easier than the other to adopt this kind of thinking. Taking from example of the movie/book again – I noticed that the 2 boys spoke in a very ‘intense’ and ’serious’ manner to one another. Something that is not normally expected coming from 2 young boys. The father also spoke in a manner that is very negatively-skewed – like ‘you bring me shame’. Perhaps it’s in their culture. Perhaps it’s just the dramatisation of the whole thing. But that’s just what I noticed and trying to relate with the whole optimism issue.

I always wonder too, since when that the ‘culture’ of Islam become so ‘intense’ and ’serious’ and often ‘negative’? I believe it’s not from Islam, but rather from the original culture of the people who claims themselves to be Muslim. Because in the ‘azan’, a form of calling Muslims to prayers, it is repeated twice – ‘Haiya alal falaah’ or ‘Come towards success’. It is repeated twice for 5 times a day. That’s 10 times a day calling people towards success. Why is then most Muslims are so pre-occupied about petty issues that is most of the time dripping in the sauce of negativity?

Therefore, I will adopt much more optimism like the Americans, more of  ‘I CAN’ attitude or ‘Malaysia Mampu” ( since the word ‘Boleh’ apparently is the not the right usage), more positive thinking, and always gear myself towards success – like in the calling of ‘azan’.

   The ever optimistic, running, Forrest Gump!