We have learned that our minds shape our lives. Now, we learn how we shape our minds with the power of nine principles. These principles carry in their words nine secrets God planted in his creation in order for us to operate with confidence and experience successful results. So, let’s focus on building strong minds with these principles. Let’s develop mental muscle.
God created my brain. It’s his gift to me.
I create my mind. It’s my gift to myself.
First, we’ll take a trip to the gym. Ready?
Mental Muscle Is Not “Flabby”
Flabby muscles aren’t attractive. Nor are they much use. Let’s build strong mental muscles with nine powerful principles, beginning today with Principle One.
Principle One:
The mind is the key to performance in all areas of life — physical and spiritual.
Let Olympic Athletes Educate Us About Mental Muscle
In Olympic competition 95% of the medals are taken by 5 % of the athletes. These athletes say that the key is not physical, but mental. This mental edge is not genetic (given), but developed.
Likewise, a long distance runner will tell you that 80-90% of success is mental, not physical. The mind is the power that drives the body. Our bodies are powerful. But our minds are more powerful.
Mental Muscle Energizes Physical Muscle
If you lift weights, you know that when your body feels exhausted your mind will tell you that you can’t do one more repetition. And if you let your mind rule, you certainly can’t. But even so, if your coach yells in your ear, “Come on! Three more, three more!” somehow your mind can empower your body to find the energy to do three more. In other words, mental muscle energizes physical muscle!
The Mind Rules the World
What’s more, philosophies, not armies, have ruled the world. It’s mind over physical forces. Think of Hitler’s “Mien Kampf”, Marx’s “Das Kapital”, and Chairman Mao’s Thoughts of Chairman Mao”. Better still, think of how the thoughts recorded in the Bible have changed the face of our entire world. Mind rules!
Three centuries ago the Psalmist exhorted us to “Be not like the horse or mule without understanding.” Likewise, the insult card jokes, “Use your head; it’s the little things that count.” But little or not, it’s the head that counts.
Proof that the Mind Is the Key to Performance
Step 1:
Don’t do this (for obvious reasons); just imagine it. Place a plank, 4in. x 12in. x 10ft., on the floor and carefully walk along the plank to the end. Turn around and walk back without falling off. Think you could do that? I think most of us would have no problem. We could all summon the physical skill to do it.
Step 2:
Now then, since you know you have the physical skill to do it with ease, secure the plank to the roof of a building 60 stories high. Now, make sure it juts out ten feet over the street 60 stories below. Is your mind telling your imagination anything yet? Is it saying something like, “You’re out of your mind if you think you can walk along that plank and turn around and walk back again. Don’t you know that you’ll fall?” The mind is the key to performance! Physically you can do it, but not if your mind says, “No.”
Mind Over Suffering Is Not a Myth
“To be spiritually minded is . . . peace,” says Paul, that great biblical philosopher of two millenniums ago. And no greater example of this is found than the mind of Christ overcoming the pain and agony of the cross while displaying such majestic calm. His body was the scene of unbearable torment; his mind and spirit, a pose in peace and calm. “Truly this was the Son of God,” displaying the abilities of the spiritual mind.
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Our first and most important task in a world-changing mission is to learn how to think straight (and teach straight thinking) and combat the insurgence of crooked thinking in our culture and in our world today. If we become passive victims of this crooked way of thinking, we promote it. Furthermore, if we remain silent, we also give it credence. In Who Am I?, the reader progresses from how we have become “crooked thinkers” to how to break out of this prison of the mind to become instruments of change for a better world. We do this by recognizing from where we derive our value as humans. “Build a straight and powerful mind.” ~ Ray W. Lincoln
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