This is a direct quote from a "lesson" that my good friend Ed Rands posted in our 30 Day Mental Cleanse forum about Chapter 15 of Napoleon Hill's Thank And Grow Rich:
When a person considers something to be valuable, they instinctively protect it.
Most people put their money into a bank because they believe it will be safer there than under their mattress. Important documents are often kept in a safe deposit box, or at least a fire resistant lockbox.
The US government supposedly keeps quite a lot of gold in Fort Knox, a place so well known for its security that it’s become a simile for impenetrable protection.
Corporations keep their research and development behind doors needing key codes, passcards, and biometric scans.
Houses have locking doors and windows. Higher levels of protection can include an alarm system. The top end includes trained dogs and armed guards.
Our mind, particularly our subconscious mind, contains what makes us who we are.
At the physical level, it runs all the autonomic functions that keep your body going. You breathe, your blood flows, your food digests and distributes to every cell without you giving it an aware thought.
It stores the information we’ve decided is useful, or at least might be interesting to share. The facts and figures and tidbits of knowledge.
It stores a lifetime of experiences. The images, the stories, the emotions, the meaning you interpreted from each event.
And it houses the most valuable communication device ever created. A device which can be trained to hear inspiration from the wisest, most powerful force in the universe.
Without my mind, I’d cease to be me. I’d cease to be anything but dead in an incredible hurry.
Sounds incredibly valuable to me. So why is it that so few take any precautions to protect it?
The untrained masses of the world treat their mind like an unguarded house. The gate is off its hinges, the door is flapping in the wind, and the windows are broken. Every bit of rubbish and riff-raff has taken up residence or at least shown up as an unwelcomed guest.
On the couch, seething and foam at the mouth sits Hatred.
Greed is staring out the window at the neighbor’s house, plotting how to take some of their things without being caught.
Superstition is in the kitchen, freaking out because a black cat just jumped onto the table, causing him to stumble backwards and tip over the salt shaker.
Out in the garage, revenge is sharpening a knife to a razor's edge.
Upstairs, anger is punching holes in the wall with bloodied knuckles.
Pacing around the living room is a hideous green monster of jealousy, ranting about how it should all be his.
What’s that rattling the closet door? Ahh, there it is. As the closet door is opened, Fear scrambles as far back into a dark corner as it can manage.
No protection, no security, no guard. These unwanted guests just sauntered, crawled or scurried in because nothing stopped them.
And that special communication system? It’s hiding under a tarp, shut down, unused and forgotten.
After reading chapter 12 of Think and Grow Rich, along with the rest of the rest of the book and the Mental Cleanse program, we are being educated on the critical value of our subconscious mind, and how important it is that it be guarded.
To put the gate back on the hinges, latch but not lock the door, fix the windows, and begin to systematically drive out the unwanted guests.
We’re being taught how to set and train the guard at the gate. A guard with a very specific list of positivity to allow to take up residence.
Desire seeks entrance. It’s wearing work clothes and comes running up to the gate. It’s radiating so much heat, it could set the place on fire. That’s okay, it’s a good kind of fire. Come on in.
In the bedroom, where it has been used and degraded, Sex is cleaning itself up and making itself truly alluring once more.
Enthusiasm climbs up onto the roof and shouts, “Woo-hoo! Let’s do this!”
Hope is in the backyard, pointing out the most beautiful sunrise ever seen, and how it’s the beginning of the most incredible day ever.
Romance has taken a seat on the patio, where it’s inspired to write a poem about how that sunrise just does not compare to the radiance of its lover’s beauty.
Faith is going about, quietly but confidently assuring everyone that the rebuilding can be done, that the dream and vision are possible.
Finally, as Fear is sent packing, Love comes up from the basement where it’s been locked away. The energy from it is incredible as it runs around hugging everyone, offering words of encouragement and getting to know everyone, building strong relationships.
Meanwhile, the special communication device is uncovered, cleaned off, plugged back in, turned on and tuned in. The volume knob doesn’t go very high, but when the house is still and peaceful, a voice can be heard offering inspiration, ideas and suggestions for an even better rebuild.
Solomon wrote “guard your heart, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Set up your guards, drive out the vermin and the riff-raff, perfect the protection system, and call in the incredible new residents longing to make a home in your mind.
Ed Rands
Kelowna, BC, Canada
Thank you Ed for allowing me to repost this.,
See more great "lessons" here : http://30daymentalcleanse.info/index.php/board,281.0.html
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