Mind Control

Attitude

One form of mind control attitude. Emotions and intellect are supposed to be two entirely separate entities, and yet what I've noticed is that they are very intertwined when consciously chosen to be. I am not at the mercy of my mood or my emotions if I don't want to be.

"Take Chill Pill" and "You need an attitude adjustment," while probably the worst possible way you can coax someone into tuning down their emotional reactions, actually have truth behind them - you can actually change your emotional state by adjusting your outlook (attitude). It seems almost fake at first, but you can trick your emotions by adjusting your thoughts to whatever theme you want. If you want to be happy, you can tell yourself "I'm so happy, everything is great today, I love the rain outside, I'm learning so much when my boss tells me off" - excuse the sarcasm, it's a bad habit - and you will be able to feel your emotions lift. As long as you stay conscious of your emotions and thoughts you can actually manipulate them however you want.

Just today I was in a bad mood. It's raining outside, I'm hung over, my deadline at work got pushed up a month(!), so I had plenty of "reasons" to be gloomy and down on life. What a wimp! After a while I started to think to myself - none of these are good enough reasons for me to be upset. I like rain. So what if my body feels like shit? Company politics shouldn't control the daily outcomes of my struggle for inner peace. And then I could feel it, like something reached down and lifted me two inches off the ground. I began to float through the rest of the day and started thinking a lot more clearly. Thinking clearly I was able to come up to terms with my work deadline and came up with ways to still get the things I need to get done. This brought my mood up even more and I remained highly productive for the rest of the day.

Last night I let my emotions take me prisoner. I was feeling a little left out when one of the only friends I hang out with here went out with other friends and didn't invite me. I didn't want to be home, so I went to WuDaoKou (Korea town) by myself and called various people I know to see if anyone would want to come hang out. It became apparent that no one was going to come out and eat dinner with me, so I began to ponder friendships and why I really have no close friends in Beijing. I've been struggling with this problem for a while, and so I let these thoughts continue until they got me really down. I finally got a hold of someone to come out to meet me, but by this point I was already in a manic state. I got together a lot of energy, but on the inside I was already rotted out as I let my thoughts drift the wrong and very illogical way.

It's like SCUBA diving. If you dive too deep you start to get affected by the depth (I think it was because of some gas that you start breathing too much of? Someone can correct me on that). The further down you go, the less logical you become and you want to swim even deeper. If this happens you are probably a goner - swimming endlessly down without consideration for your oxygen. If you realized that you were starting to feel risky because of the depth in the first place you could make the decision to stop and swim back up to a safer level. However, unlike SCUBA diving there is a positive "depth" (although thinking excessively positive can have its own dangers).

Intentions

Another form of mind control is intention manifestation. I'm not quite practised enough to see the limits (or non-limits) afforded by intention manifestation, but I do know this: when you hold a thought in your head (keep your attention constantly coming back to it), it will have a major impact on your life within the next few days.

When I was in middle school I thought the world revolved around me. I would justify this by noting that whenever my class was studying something, that thing seemed to pop up everywhere else in my life. When we were studying the medieval period with knights and the black plague, there seemed to be an abundance of new movies and TV shows coming out about this period. What I didn't realize at the time was that I noticed for the first time the connection between thoughts, attention, and real life manifestation.

If you agree with the premises that the world is really in your head, as you only can experience what you can sense, or in other words the world is only what you are aware of. If you aren't aware of it, it doesn't exist (to you). So if you can control your attention and thus change the parameters of your awareness - change YOUR world. Think of your awareness as a flashlight in a pitch black room. Your world only encompasses the area that the flashlight can cover, the rest you don't have a clue. You could shine it in one place that's blue - but does that mean that the whole room is blue? It could be painted like a circus. There may be no room at all, just a small circular flashlight-sized wall that was painted blue. Keep in mind that this is just a metaphor to help understand the idea of awareness and our simple world perceptions - it doesn't have much to do with intention manifestation.

When you decide (key) that you want your awareness to be on something, you will start to be aware of that more often. If you leave your awareness alone, you may never even notice certain things. By actively deciding and holding the intention to, say, buy a car - you will start noticing all of the cars around you. Simple right? It gets better; if you hold the intention to make more money, you will start noticing money making opportunities all around you. Now that's power.

Just try to imagine all of the other possible uses of these two mind control techniques. Change your attitude - control your emotions. Hold an intent - change your entire world. Now what intent should I hold... I think I'll start with the intent to think of an intent to hold that will have the largest immediate positive impact in my life.

Good luck with your mind tricks.