The mind an incredible thing

Your mind is an incredible thing. 

Your mind can do so many amazing things when you learn how to control it. 

It can help you remember things, and it can also shut down when you're not ready to deal with things.

When I was raped, my mom told me to forget it ever happened, that I should never speak of it again and so I listened. What did I know? I was fifteen and she was my mom. I thought she knew better. 

Gotta love Maya Angelo's saying, "When you know better, you do better"

This is what she knew, not to talk about your problems. So I put it in the back of my mind and I thought I would never go back to that dark place.

Of course it will manifest in other parts of your life, in my case it was drinking and drugs to keep it in there, tightly in there. 

Your mind can make you do things you never thought you could do, like jumping out of a plane or when I did a marathon at 49 and I was a lousy swimmer. I told myself and I tell all of you, that you can do whatever you set your mind to and look at what happened. Not only did I finish, I placed 3rd in my age group!

It also helped me through my abusive 24 year marriage. I would lay in the tub or lay in my bed and imagine my new life. I would imagine how happy I was. I could see it, I could feel it just as if I was there! This was a real world to me. I kept doing it until I envisioned my life as I know it today.

I know how powerful the mind is as I pretended that I was happy for all those years. I practiced so much, so that my girls wouldn't know how I was dying inside. I shut my mind off of how unhappy I truly was.

Yes, the mind can do all kinds of things, even some horrible things as well. Like making you believe your own lies. You lie so much that you really believe that they are true, even when you get caught in them time and time again. 

It allows people to do things to others and believe that it was the other person's fault, so they need not take responsibility for their own actions. 

It will make some people think they did nothing wrong when they cause hurt and destruction in another's life. They truly believe everyone is out to get them, that they are the innocent party there.

There came a point in my life that I had decided that all that had happened to me, I needed to free myself of. I didn't want to be an angry, bitter person and so I fasted and I prayed and I set my mind to forgive and let go of all these emotions. I needed to learn what I needed to learn and throw the rest away.

And so I have... this will be a non existence in my life. I no longer give it life or put my emotions into something that doesn't bring me peace or happiness.

So today my friends remember the mind is truly an incredible thing but it's up to you how you want to use it. Use it wisely…

"Be the change you want to see"

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