By Udeme Archibong

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your mind. Your life cannot rise above the level of your thoughts. Your life experiences correspond to the quality of your thoughts.

Therefore, the key to transforming your life is transforming your mind.

To embrace new ways of thinking you need to reject the old thinking pattern. To install new programmed thinking pattern you need to delete the old programmed thinking pattern. Old habitual ways of thinking demands habitual rejection of the old thinking pattern until the new thinking pattern becomes habitual. Alertness of mind is the key to rejecting old programmed thoughts.

Whenever the old negative programmed thoughts pops up in your mind you can say it out loud “CANCEL” or “DELETE”. This breaks the cycle of acting out the negative programming without thinking. Install the new program in your mind by practicing a new way of thinking. In your alone time maximize your mental time by practicing or meditating on new positive ways of thinking. Rather than idling watching the Television or engaging in idle chats or activities that is not profitable, practice the new thinking pattern. For instance, if you are struggling financially you can think to yourself, “I am abundantly supplied; there is an abundance of ideas, opportunities and finances made available to me. I wisely manage and utilize my finances in creating value for myself and others. I prosper in all my ways because I am divinely empowered.”

Let these thoughts roll over in your mind as many times as possible until it becomes a habitual thinking pattern. It gets better; say these thoughts out loud. Whenever you speak out the new way of thinking it interrupts the cycle of the old negative programmed thoughts weakening its hold on your mind. When these new positive pattern of thinking is consistently voiced out the old negative programmed thoughts loses control over your mind and the new way of thinking replaces it and dominate your mind.

In the journey of transformation of the mind it is critical to always remember, that our behavior, attitude, beliefs and most of our decisions stems out from the programmed thoughts filed in the subconscious mind. Whenever you see yourself acting without thinking, you can be sure that you had already been programmed in the past to respond to certain situation in a particular way.

Many people struggle through life without becoming aware that their suffering is due to the programmed deposits in their subconscious mind. The perception you have of yourself; the attitude of your life; and the general approach to life is controlled by the attitudes and thoughts we grew up with subconsciously. People change their appearance; marry their spouses, change jobs, and geographical location and other outward things. But only few people change their subconscious minds by installing a new program in it. People desperately want their spouse; children; finances; relationships; health and their circumstance to change. They are busy fighting the effect rather than effectively seeking to change the cause which is rooted in the mind; they become handicapped and frustrated in the struggle.

It is vital to keep in mind that each passing moment you are always making deposits into your mind from every available source that you are exposed to and give your attention to and these deposits shape your life. The vital question is; are you making positive deposits that will enhance the fulfillment of your destiny? Or are you making negative deposits that will leave your life as debris in the arena of failure? You can’t change your life overnight but you change the direction of your life overnight by changing your mind one thought at a time leading to a transformed life.

Remember, you have absolute control over your mind; make it work for you rather than work against you.

Udeme Archibong can be reached via successrecipe2009@gmail.com; www.worldlightbearersint.com; 0803-509-5243