Let’s just say, for fun, that I were to break into your home with a giant trashcan of garbage and just began dumping it all over your living room floor. In this hypothetical scenario, let’s pretend that you don’t know me from Adam, I was just some random guy breaking in to your home. I’m sure we could both agree that you and I would most likely have some problems. I’m pretty sure that one of three things would probably happen. You would either try to fight me physically, or maybe you would run into the other room and call the police to have me arrested, or maybe you would grab your gun if you had one and say, “You’d better get out of my house now!” …and with a gun in my face, I’m sure I would exit your house pretty quickly! But what I find interesting about all of this, is that after I were to run out of your home, you would most likely tell all of your friends about how some random guy barged into your house and started dumping garbage all over your floor and how you threatened him to leave. For coming months even you would probably tell or expand your story of how you were going to shoot me, and how you probably should have. Or how you should have just beat me up and taught me a good lesson, or something like that.
So my question is, what do you do to the people who dump garbage into your mind? How do you respond to those people? In other words, how do you deal with people who randomly show up in your life and tell you how you can’t do something? How do you respond to people who say unkind things to you about your family, or your community, or your faith, or your country, or your friends? What do you do to those people who dump negative garbage into your mind? Maybe yo just smile and say, “That doesn’t bother me, I won’t let that get to me… I can take it if someone decides to dump their garbage on me!” Well, let me tell you something, my friend, that’s where you are just as wrong as you cold ever possibly be! Because if you dump garbage in, garbage will come out! The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do a lot more damage than the person who dumps garbage onto your floor, because each load of garbage that is dumbed into your mind will negatively impact your possibilities and it will lower your expectations of life.
You see, every thought that goes into your mind has an effect, to some degree. For example, did you know that years, and years, and years of research concerning the common cold has resulted in no reliable data whatsoever on the actual cause of the cold or the cure. However, it has been proven and established in science that you are far more likely to “catch” a cold when you are emotionally down or depressed. If you have ever heard of Zig Ziglar, he says that it’s your “Stinkin’ Thinkin’ that gets you sick!” Now, on the other side of the fence, we have something called “Positive Thinking,” whom one of my grandmas favorites, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale always spoke of which produce is positive results.
In 1969, a man by the name of Charles Ritter of Sac City, Iowa, had been diagnosed with cancer and he had to have his kidney removed. Three months later a malignancy was discovered in each of his lungs. Since Charley was older and physically unable to go through surgery, the doctors at the Mayo Clinic asked Charley if he would be willing to try an experiential drug. With nothing to lose, and a life to gain, Charlie Ritter agreed to go ahead and give it a try. The particular drug only apparently only works on 10% of these cases. It worked on Charley.
Old Charley Ritter live another six years and eventually died of a heart attack. What’s interesting to me is that the autopsy never revealed any trace of cancer in his body at the time of his death. What’s more, is that the doctors at the Mayo Clinic have discovered that all of the cancer victims on whom the drug actually worked had two things in common. They all had a tremendous desire to live, and they all believed that the drug would work on them.
You see, your mind, and what is in it, is the most important thing to creating the world that you want. Whatever we put into our mind is what’s going to come out. Do you allow garbage to be dumped there? Or do you keep it nice and clean? It’s all your choice!
Train your mind!
Ryan C. Brown
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