Which mind in you is winning out? When attempting to change your life, are you expressing the qualities of an open mind or a closed mind? An individual with an open mind lives in a state of expectancy, complete with a deep sense of curiosity and inspired decision making. It’s here that a person is not afraid of taking initiative with focused, mental action. It’s a time when being present with your true self is welcomed without an expectation of pressure or performance, often referred to in the Power Your Decisions Self-Study Workbook as “competitive thinking.”
An Open Mind
The open-minded person fasts from all negatives and contemplates giving up their hurts, errors and negative assertions in exchange for a greater freedom of thought and intellectual mobility. They have realized that placing limits on their own creative expression equates to a form of mental and physical congestion. Dr. Barker calls this a “sin at the level of mind” and an “untruth” which traps a person endlessly in inferior thinking. He says the most positive use of your mind is to receive and explore ideas that are right for you.
Making this a conscious agenda becomes the most positive form of mental action you can undertake in your life. The open-minded person allows curiosity to be the most significant and primary driver of thoughts they entertain daily. This is when a person begins to be unafraid of spiritual ideas that move them off dead center. Find yourself possibly stuck in old ruts of thinking? Resigned to situations you believe impossible to escape? Getting bogged down in the quandaries of doubt, fear and negative speculation, or only half-living; becoming a day dreamer? Dr. Barker says when these qualities envelop us, it becomes a fast track to making ourselves miserable. The alternative to this “poverty-minded” thinking can be found by exploring your true inner self.
Awakening Your Mind
Contemplate living under a law of mental expansion, and allow yourself to entertain up-to-date ideas. Begin by exploring what makes you curious. Initiate those daily experiences that stir up the gift of Spirit [God] within you. Remember God is not interested in the past because God is always a present experience. This awakening of your mind will always keep your goals appearing.
