Master Key – Master Mind Alliance – Week 5 – Freedom

Week 5 is midway through and I am happy, amazed and absolutely dumbfounded!  This has by far been my hardest week in the course and for that matter, the hardest mental week of my life.

Question:  What am I describing?

We all have them, we’re willing to give them out to complete strangers, we have more than we’ll ever need or use and they are endless and free. (keep reading for the answer)

To recap from some of my earlier posts, we have a field (our subconscious) that will provide any seeds we cultivate.  Happy, sad, energetic, lowly, magnetic, successful or destitute, the subconscious will deliver whatever our predominating thoughts are.

Planting the seeds is our conscious mind.  The “Guardian at the Gate” of our subconscious.  The conscious mind makes the all the decisions.  It can discriminate, form opinions, make judgements and fill the subconscious with whatever thoughts it wants.  This is both good and bad.  It’s good because we control our thoughts and if we focus on putting the right seeds in our fertile soil (subconscious), we can reap a truly incredible harvest.  It’s bad because most people get so caught up in their day-to-day existence that they spend most of their conscious effort thinking of everything they don’t want and they keep getting the results they predominately think of, instead of what they truly want.

One of the biggest challenges for myself, and I would imagine everyone else out there, was finding the quiet time to truly focus and direct my conscious mind.   Think about it, there are 24 hours in a day.  If you sleep 8, that leaves 16 hours.  8 hours of work plus 2 hours of getting ready, commuting and getting the kids off to school and you’re down to 6 hours.  Homework with the kids, dinner, a quick shower, house and yard work and boom you’re down to just a few precious hours a day.  If you give yourself some “me” time in the evening for your favorite drama and a quick nightcap of the evening news and viola!  You have officially ran out of the day.  Don’t worry, you can always start over tomorrow, or if tomorrow doesn’t work, there’s always next week, next month or, well, you get the picture.  It just seems that there’s never enough time in the day or week to really get focused on what really matters most.

There’s the old saying that “most people are so busy making a living that they forget to make a life!”.  Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth to that statement.  Think about it, whether it’s you, a friend or family member, how many people do you know that are truly living their life on purpose, with purpose and with passion?  My guess is very few of you.  Don’t worry, you’re not alone.  In this fast paced, keeping up with the Joneses lifestyle we all lead, it is easy to get completely overwhelmed and put the important things off, until you get your head above water.  Once you do, then you’ll focus on your future.  This is the great hamster wheel in life.  Just give me until tomorrow to start something and I guarantee you that I’ll get right on it.  Sadly, tomorrow never comes and life simply passes up by and we look back with regret and sorrow at what promise and dreams we once held.

Sounds pretty glum.

Not so fast!  There is a way to free up your mind and give your conscious an abundance of time each day, every day to focus, plan and build your ideal future.  So, how is that accomplished?  Well, that’s where this weeks major breakthrough comes in.  In the beginning of my post, I said that I was dumbfounded and amazed at what I’ve been working on this week.  I also said that it was the hardest mental week of my life.  What could possibly be so mentally tough and eye opening as well?  It’s simple, its called an Opinion.  That’s right, an Opinion.  They aren’t only the answer to the riddle earlier in my post, but they are the most time consuming, detrimental, waste of conscious thought ever!

This weeks exercise was to stop any type of opinion from being expressed.  It certainly sounded easy enough when it was presented.  Then about 5 seconds went by and then BINGO!  Opinion after opinion after opinion!  I couldn’t believe it!  In any given 60 second span, I must of had hundreds of opinions.  So verbal, some internal, some nice, some not so nice and a whole bunch in between.

This was a real eye opener for me.  Think about it.  If 85% or more of your waking hours are spent doing something unproductive like thinking, giving or expressing your opinion, how much conscious time does your mind really have left?  Day after day of opinion is exhausting.  What would happen if you were able to eradicate all of these opinions?  Don’t think them, don’t say them, don’t project them, simply get rid of them.  The time you’ll have for solid, beneficial, focused thought will increase by magnitudes.

If you don’t think this applies to you, that’s okay, just give this a try.  For the next 5 days, just be aware of every time you either give or think of some opinion.  Just doing this will be a real eye opener.  It won’t be easy and its almost a bit scary at realizing how much of your conscious time is spent opining about this or that.

For the second 5 days, consciously be aware of when you’re about to give or think of an opinion and focus instead of something peaceful.  It could be anything, walking your dog, flying a kite or playing with your kid.  At this point the thoughts don’t matter, they are simply a break in your mental routine of being ruled by opinions.

For the third and final 5 days, change your thoughts from being random to being focused and peace and abundance.  Truly use any chance you get to give our opinion as a cultivator for positive thought.  Give it the full 15 days and I guarantee you’ll be amazed.  In no time, you’ll have more time to build your incredible future than you ever thought possible.

Have fun with this.  You might learn more about yourself than you could ever imagine!