A Stable Mind is a Strong Mind

It’s true that our mental resilience plays a crucial role in navigating life’s challenges. Building mental strength is like exercising a muscle. Consistent practice and self-awareness contribute to greater resilience. In this episode, let’s explore some practical strategies to build that inner stability.

Transcript

Very good afternoon to each one of you and hope you are taking time to enjoy the summer. We are having such gorgeous weather at the moment.  Today we want to talk about keeping our minds stable, especially, you know, in times of challenge, and how when we create that stable mind, how that stable mind becomes my inner strength. At the time of need in life, we are faced with all kinds of unexpected and also expected challenges. Why? 

I'm saying expected challenges. For example, when you have to write an exam, or if you're going to do a driving test, you're going to go up your driving test, or you're going to write this exam, what is it that helps us to pass those exams? And how long does the exam last?  And how long does the preparation for the exam last?  To pass the exam, we have to prepare. 

And the preparation time is usually a very long time, right?  But the exam time, comparatively very short. I mean, even if it is a 2 hours exam, is still very short compared to the length of preparation.  The driving test is the same. The driving test is not even hours long, is minutes. 

But how many practices, how much training we have to go through.  So that when I'm being told, park here, turn here, you know, be able to do it instantaneously.  So. And how much time do we have to make that decision? 

Right. It's a sentence we are told, okay, part here, you know, or turn right, or turn left.  So only seconds we have.  But the reason why we able to do it in those seconds is because we have been practicing it. We've been doing it over a period of time. 

So it happens right very quickly. Same with even exams at school.  We've been studying, we've been practicing so that when we see the question in our question paper in seconds, I can find the answer and I write it. Because we've been practicing seeing with lies in a general way.  And even after we get a driver's license, for example, lots of tests come on the road, isn't it? 

And we have seconds to respond, seconds, right? To use our feet or our hands. And it comes with practice.  So that's what life is about. Second. 

And what really helps is when the mind is stable, focused, concentrated. When the mind is in the moment, is present in this moment. And this is why I'm using this example of driving, because it applies to every, almost every area of our life.  We only get seconds to make a decision.  And the more present we are, the stable we are internally, the calmer we are, is where our strength comes, you know, when we get bad news question, it I might resist it, I might collapse. 

But it's all, it still takes seconds for me to pull myself together,  because  whether I get a heart attack, because of whatever I'm hearing, I'm in such shock, or whether I'm able to pull myself together,  the situation is still there.  I still have to deal with it. The situation did not go somewhere else because I choose to react to it.  It is still there.  And when I calm down, I would still have to deal with it. 

It didn't go anywhere.  And so common sense tells us practice to hold ourselves together, practice this ability to create a stable mind. So when the exam comes, suddenly I have that stable mind to fall back on that becomes of the strength of the inner strength.  And like I said, it takes only seconds, you know, because I have to deal with this situation. So the longer it takes me to hold myself together, the longer it will take to resolve the situation  and that somebody is not going to come and do it for me. 

So this determination to practice creating the inner stability is very important and very necessary, especially because of the kind of world we are living in today. Not that we want, you know, bad things to happen or anything like that,  but these things happen,  isn't it? And what a relief it would be. When we have security, then there is security, then there is some kind of a peace of mind.  So on the physical level, when there is security, when you have health insurance or you have car insurance or you have some kind of security, you have money in the bank, then you feel safer, you feel a little bit stronger. 

Same way when our inner capacity is secure or is full, when there is this insecurity, one of them is a stable mind that becomes our strength at the time of need. So how much time will it take you to tap into your inner self and stabilize yourself?  How much time would it take you?  Minutes, half an hour? Seconds. 

So with practice, as we know, practice makes perfect, right? So as we keep practicing, and many of you are joining every day on Paul boost. So this is a wonderful practice that you are giving yourself.  Encourage your family and friends also to join, if not life, but later on, because practice makes perfect.  And so when we practice, right, and we  put our mind  into this type of a rhythm, to practice this,  detach  from the external,  go inward, stabilize on your inner self,  then come back onto the field of action, do what needs to be done. 

So if every few hours you take a few minutes to practice this, keep practicing this, and over period of time, you will be able to do it in seconds.  Isn't that wonderful?  And then when everything's happened and the external, you'll be able to connect very easily.  You have that inner strength.  There is a clear mind and we are able to take care of what needs to be taken care of at that moment. 

You have a few minutes.  Let us practice.  Take a deep breath in and release.  Let your body relax.  Take another deep breath in and release, letting the body relax all the tension, the muscles melt away and as you're breathing, become steep and natural. 

Bring your thoughts to this present moment, keeping all other thoughts of the outside world into the distance and all sounds. 

And in 1 second, turn your attention inward and connect with your light in the center of the forehead, between the eyes. 

Allow your mind to concentrate on that light and allow yourself to feel your own night radiating. 

Hold yourself here.  Do not allow any other thoughts to come in. 

Just enjoy being in this moment, visualizing yourself that beautiful sparkling star like energy that is inside behind the eyes. 

And remind yourself, I.  I am a star of light. 

I am a star of strength. 

I am a star of peace. 

Allow yourself to feel your own energy of light, strength and peace. 

In this state of light, strength and peace, I can then come onto the field of action and perform any action that is accepting my response. 

There are times when this can be difficult and at those times I remind myself that there is the source of strength, the source of peace, the source of comfort, the eternal one. 

And I can always open my heart at any time and allow the light  of the eternal source  to fill me  with all that I need  and how I  choose to do justice.  Open my heart and allow the light of the eternal source of divine light to fill my being. 

I know I can draw strength from this one at any time and this is always a means of comfort and support available. 

And now I prepare myself to come back onto the field of action,  holding myself  in my inner strength,  being the star of light,  the star of peace  and the star of strength. 

Take a deep breath in and release. 

Thank you all very much and have a beautiful day.