How to Find Your Real Self by Mildred Mann

Author:Mildred Mann
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620115480
Publisher: Duke Classics

Chapter V - Proper Thinking

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That is one step that is very necessary. Then, there is another step which is equally important. It takes a little more time and a little more observation of yourself.

Have you ever noticed that your mind, — and my mind, too, is either living for the most part in tomorrow, or next week, or last year? We are either regretting the things that have happened in the past, or we are dreading the things that are yet to come. We so very rarely hold that mind of ours in this particular moment. Actually, the only moment we can ever know is RIGHT NOW. The moment you began to read this sentence is already in the past; it is gone; and there is nothing you can do to get it back. And before you finish this sentence you will be in the future The only thing that we really can know is this immediate moment. At this moment your mind is in tune. The physical body is probably resting in a comfortable chair. The conscious and subconscious mind are in turn reading and digesting these words.

We constantly rupture the mind, and it is one of the most dangerous things we do to ourselves. The subconscious mind knows no time, or any measurement of time, in any sense whatsoever. It is not interested in time. Time is purely a physical measurement. Always remember that. If you doubt it, ask yourself the difference between five minutes spent in the dentist's chair, having a tooth drilled without novocaine, to five minutes of the greatest happiness you have ever known. Which is the longer? We use time as a physical measurement for moving things through space. That does not concern the subconscious mind in any way, however.

The subconscious mind knows nothing but NOW. That is the meaning behind the great metaphysical statement, "I live in an Eternal Now."

That is the way we are created to live — but we do not. The conscious mind runs back and forth, from the past to the future, darting here and there, in a constant tug-of-war with the subconscious, which wants to stay in one place with the physical body and the conscious mind. That is one of the great causes for fatigue, from which too many of us suffer, and it results in a nervous tension from which few of us are free.

Do you want to accomplish things in your life? Then learn to keep your mind intact. That is your job. That is my job. No one can do it for you but yourself. If you cannot hold your thought steady on the particular thing you are attempting to do at any particular moment, you are not going to get very far. Make a law for yourself that no matter what you are doing, be it trivial or be it important, you are giving it your complete attention. Give it all of your mind. Practice it until it becomes a habit with you.

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