Your Safe House
It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove. It’s not what you can do, it’s what you’ve been through. Your mind is a safe house. Based on how it’s built it will keep you safe and protected or you will constantly panic. Worry. Be in a state of chaos. Unstable. Insecure. Uncertain. How do you have it set up? Is your brain full of crap. Full of worry, regret, shame, guilt, nervous energy and fear. Or have you actively kept your brain clean, sharp and in good shape? Your mind as Marcus Aurelius describes is “an impenetrable fortress.”
It can only be impenetrable if you train it. If you get rid of all the things your mind doesn’t need. Gut it all out and rebuild it. You must properly train yourself to get there. So nothing goes in that shouldn’t be there and only what needs to be there has a place to stay. A room to be in. This comes down to your habits. To your feelings and emotions. The reason you feel stress, anger or frustration. Train yourself in these. Train yourself in how you spend your time and with whom. What you read. What you consume and how. It all comes down to training.
Bruce Lee said the following and fits just right, “I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.”
When you do something long enough, it becomes who you are and you do it instinctively. Because you’ve trained for it and so, you execute. Seemingly with no effort.
Your mind works the same way. In how you think. In how you process decisions. In how you give advice or solve a problem. Your mind is your safe house. Build it properly. Arrange the furniture the right way.
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Thought Provoking Questions : What can you do to train your mind? Where can you start? How can you create an internal safe house for yourself?
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