The last speech I wrote in my public speaking class was a persuasive speech. Here is my outline I used as I stood in front of my classmates motivating them to do something huge yet so simple.
Changing the Channel in Your Mind
By Paulina Cruz
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the power of our mind.
Central idea: To inform my audience how to create an extraordinary authentic life by understanding the power of our mind,
controlling our thoughts, and channeling our brain energy
I was screaming crying and begging for my mom to find me. I felt so alone and it was dark. It felt like hours before she came to my rescue when according to the clock it was merely seconds. Mom took me from my bed and held me, asking for an explanation. I explained I heard noises in the closet and then saw something move and I was convinced I was suffocating. I hadn’t fallen asleep yet I was laying there worried about all the bad things that could happen to me in the dark. My mom simply explained to me, “You need to learn to change the channel of your mind. It’s like a TV in there with many stations available and you have to choose the right ones.” (Amy, 1997)
My mom had unlocked a secret that could give us all a special power to carry the rest of our life.
Later I discovered she was introducing this idea that I want to share with you today; how to create the life you want through choosing the thoughts you want.
I’ve developed an appetite for any book or any teaching I can get my hands on that teaches this philosophy. I’ve been on my own journey discovering how to master my mind through my spiritual faith and personal practices.
Today am going to inform you how to create an extraordinary authentic life. First we will take a quick look at how our minds can control our emotions, how our mind is a map, then the energy that comes from our thoughts, and finally how to become the master of your own mind to start the journey of a life you love.
Thoughts can run and ruin our emotions.
- Before we experience an emotion it starts in a relay race of our mind.
- First our mind assumes a response to the situation, and then passes on the message to release a reaction in our body.
- You’ve experienced this when you have a sexual thought and immediately you are aroused. Your mind doesn’t know the difference between reality and thought. So in your minds reality, it’s necessary to begin a sexual response even though nothing in front of you is physically arousing.
- Thinking about positive things releases positive emotions and when we have positive emotions, or hormones like endorphins, our bodies function at a much higher optimal point.
- Our senses are sharpened; we think clearer, we have more energy and our creative energy increases.
Most people think being able to read minds would be incredible, let’s look at how reading our own minds could be just as powerful.
The road map to our fate starts in the map of our mind determining our steps.
- When we have habitual thoughts our mind can actually become addicted to that thought.
- Each thought has a specific pathway that has been carved into your mind like a map.
- As you start to think something or learn something over and over again it’s carved into your memory like a tire leaves a track in mud. The more the tire traces over the same spot the deeper the divot.
- The habit of a negative thought endangers the outcome of your emotions because as these thoughts become more frequent, it becomes truth in your mind.
- For example, I am ugly I am ugly I am ugly, leads to excuses to not develop beauty.
- Lets’ not become slaves to our thoughts, instead let’s be able to navigate what happens next in our mind.
Our thoughts are messengers of energy that deliver results in our life.
- If our thoughts are positive or negative this energy is going to feed our body either one or the other.
- I don’t know about you but I don’t want to be manifesting bad energy when I desire peace in my life.
- Brian Johnson from http://www.experiencelife.com says it like this, “When you expect your life to be small and sucky, you will get what you expect. Your real enemies are the self-defeating thoughts, paltry expectations, and beliefs that you must live at less than full throttle.”(Johnson, 2012)
- When our mind is crowded with noise and negative energy, then that is the way we see ourselves and the world.
- “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” (Buddha, 2010)
Now that we have seen that your mind literally can generate a chain reaction of good energy or bad energy and how our mind can determine our direction, let us unfold how to master our minds.
You can master your mind just like you can build muscle in the gym.
- Meditation is a work out of the mind, or rather a work in where you learn to control each movement of your thoughts.
- Control your mind through mediation by quieting your mind, and by not allowing any thoughts to float in and if they do, not attaching to them.
- This practice creates an awareness that when it becomes a habit will allow you to turn away from unwanted thoughts.
- You can live through your heart not your mind.
- Pay attention to the motions of your heart and not what your thoughts persuade you this will lead to your life being led by a master piece of wisdom not that map of wrong turns we talked about.
- Make it intentional every day to practice watching your thoughts.
- Be keenly aware of what goes on in your mind throughout the day.
- Catch damaging thoughts before they happen and purposefully replace them with a positive.
We have learned a lot together today about the power of our thoughts and how to create an authentic life through this power, but before I leave you today I want you to remember these things.
- If you don’t change the road map in your mind you become a slave to your thoughts and lose the ability to liberate your own unique intelligence. Our head may be attached to our neck and it may also contain our brain, but our thoughts which reside inside are the fuel for our fate. You can change this channel, only you hold the remote and the power to create a fantastic energy to direct your life. Mastering your mind through meditation or simply being aware of the power you hold to create a new thought pattern can allow you to become the person you want to be and create the life you want to life.
- Just like my mom was trying to suggest when I was a child, control your thoughts…control your destiny.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Grubin, David. “The buddah.” PBS. National Endowment of the Humanities, 2010. Web. 5 Dec. 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/>.
Johnson, Brain. “Why Your Life Sucks.” Experience Life. N.p., June 2012. Web. 5 Dec. 2013. <http://experiencelife.com/article/why-your-life-sucks/>.
Nadine, Amy. Personal interview. 1997.