Blinders to Protect Your Brain

Blinders to Protect Your Brain

“There are so many negatives all around us that sometimes it may feel

like it is impossible to forge ahead and stay positive. But there are some

real fixes you can practice in your everyday living. A few things to put

into practice immediately are these:

1. Put it all in perspective.

2. Take life one day at a time.

3. U se self-suggestion statements.

4. Exercise regularly to control any extra stress.

5. Be thankful for everything that is right in your life.

6. E ach morning, noon, and night, visualize what you plan to

accomplish, what your long-term goal or dream is.

7. Apply mental blinders to protect and shield your subconscious.”

“There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two

days which should be kept from fear and apprehension.

One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares, its faults

and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our

control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot

undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said.

Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow with all its

possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and its poor performance;

tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow’s sun will rise,

either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. Until it does,

we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet to be born.

This leaves only one day, Today.

Any person can fight the battle of just one day. It is when you and I add

the burdens of those two awful eternities—Yesterday and Tomorrow—that

we break down.

It is not the experience of today that drives a person mad; it is the

remorse or bitterness of something which happened yesterday and the dread

of what tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore, live but one day at a time.”

—Author unknown

“Okay, so we understand that we cannot allow ourselves to get

overwhelmed about life, problems, money, sickness, even love. We

must keep it all in perspective, and when we do, it always seems more

manageable. One day at a time is easy to conquer!

So the magic potion, then, is the power of feeding your subconscious

mind. It has been proven that the subconscious mind will accept and

believe that which is fed into it on a consistent basis. So if we feed it

prepared statements or thoughts on a systematic basis, our subconscious

mind will accept these thought impulses as facts.

Very important: Your subconscious mind will believe and act upon

the thoughts it receives from the conscious mind. Your subconscious

mind never sleeps. It is constantly processing and releasing back to your

conscious mind thoughts that will either reinforce good feelings or

reinforce negative feelings.

The mental blinders I speak about are something you consciously

imagine applying. When you hear, see, or feel all the negativity around

you, you effectively raise the blinders to serve as a shield by repeating

positive self-suggestion affirmations. Positive self-suggestions should be

custom-made, but to get you started, some I use are the following: “I

feel healthy, I feel happy, I feel terrific!”

The magic in affirmations comes when you keep the statements

consistent. The subconscious mind must be convinced through

repetition that the statement or desire is valid.

So take a statement like, “I will finish writing this book in three

months, and it will be fabulous!” This statement will be accepted, if

repeated throughout the day numerous times. Then the positive impulses

will be sent from your inner, subconscious mind to your conscious,

outer mind. The impulses released will be like the light pulsations from

a strobe light, reminding you, even when you are occupied with other

things, that you will be finishing the new book.

You could use an affirmation such as, “I feel great, I feel accomplished,

I am getting more done every day!”

My custom affirmations have not changed in many years. I have

three different, very long statements which I choose from. I try to say

them all to myself each and every day. It is precisely these affirmations

that slowly and systematically, over time, raise the mental blinders that

shield my subconscious mind from absorbing most of the negative talk,

news, and actions that surround us all. I hear, see and read the same

negatives every day that everyone else does, but it is as if they bounce

right off the shield that has been built up to protect the inner part of my

mind, the all-powerful subconscious.

Here is only a small sample of one of my personal affirmations. This

one actually runs much longer in its entirety:

“I feel healthy, I feel happy, I feel terrific. I like myself, I like myself, I like

myself. I will be successful; it’s inevitable because my aggressiveness will lead

to opportunities for my success. I can, I will, I want to. All things are possible

through belief in myself and the Lord, and with His help I can accomplish

anything. I feel great, I feel wonderful, I’ve got the world by the tail. If I start

acting enthusiastic, I’ll become enthusiastic. If I start acting positive, I will

become positive. If I start acting happy, I will become happy. It’s amazing,

but when I act enthusiastic, others around me become enthusiastic. When

I act positive, others around me become positive. When I act happy, others

around me become happy. We have choices in life—we can act enthusiastic

or blasé. I choose to act enthusiastic. We can act positive or . . .”

The statement goes on for another five minutes. It is important to

stress that my statement must be repeated three times throughout the

day. It has never changed and is totally memorized, as are the other two

full five-minute statements.

So there you have it: my success formula for combating depression

and negativity, and for accomplishing any reasonable goal or dream you

may have. Many readers will be thoroughly entertained by this book,

but they will not apply much of what I suggest. There will be those very

few, the ones who are tired of being tired and who want to raise their

success level, who will apply some of the methods described. Those few

make writing a book like this all that more rewarding. Your life will

change forever if you allow it to, by applying what you are reading here.

And when it does, I want you to contact me and share it with me.

Remember, it is easier to follow the crowd; it is harder to clear your

own path through an unknown forest.”

C-2012 John Paul Carinci from the book: An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed