How to master your thoughts, habits, emotions & take control

This is where your journey begins.

As a newborn:

• Do you have existing beliefs?
• Do you have existing opinions?
• Do you understand the concept of caring, compassion or even anger?
• Do you have any concept of right and wrong?

This is a brief sidestep, however to have any lasting change in life it's important to understand how things work. You wouldn't try fixing your car if you didn't understand the engine. So in order to help ourselves we first need to understand how we think, how our mind works and then we can have a new understanding that can be built upon.

The selfish years.  First I'd tell you you are a blank canvas, now I'm telling you you are born selfish. Really? Again,  remember to open your mind and give it real thought as to how a baby interacts with the world.

The separate self. This is huge, this is the beginning of becoming who you are.

Forming a self-identity is done without even realising it. We have no idea that the influences around us are shaping our lives and who we will ultimately become. We are just a sponge absorbing information. With no preconceived beliefs, labels or opinions we just accept everything that comes our way. This is what shapes who we are and how we think.

Congratulations. You are now complete. You are somebody, you have ideas, beliefs and opinions. You have a sense of what is right and wrong, you fight for your position in life and find comfort in where you want to be. You are human.

Have you ever looked back over a few years and thought, where did those years go? I think that's pretty normal, my daughter is now 19 and I can remember enrolling her in primary school for the first time like it was yesterday.

There's two worlds, there is our inner world which consist of our thoughts, feelings and perceptions of the world. Then there is the outer world, the other people. We tend to ignore the inner world that we can change, influence and help to grow. Instead, we try to change the outer world from moving homes, changing partners to arguing with family members when they don't agree with us.

Searching for something. We are always wanting something. This can be a lottery win, new stereo or move homes. We are in that constant everything will be all right when we just get around this next corner.

We all know those times when things suddenly go wrong. They catch us completely unaware, they knock us for six and derail nearly everything in our lives.

Emotional drowning, this is something that happens to all of us. Emotions may come and go, but they never completely vanish. They are there to teach us something and unless we learn from them they will suddenly creep up and drown us.

Moving to the human mind has a massive impact on our lives, we have more compassion, caring and understanding for others.

We spend so much time waiting for someone to give us a leg up, meanwhile all the strength is doing it ourselves.

Can we really love the hard times?

Our 7 senses, really? I thought we only had 5.

We very often identify strongly with our thoughts, they become us. However, does it really have to be like that?

Interesting question, has anybody ever made you feel anything?

I know I'm right. I remember it.

With this new level of understanding, new way of looking at things it is time to see the world through opened eyes.