How to Control Mind?

Try changing how you look at the thing you are struggling to control. For example, if a part of your mind really wants to have wine but you are trying to stop drinking, try imagining the wine as poison. Imagine it going all through your body, infecting your cells and organs.

Perfect morality is the all in all of the complete control over mind. The man who is perfectly moral has nothing more to do; he is free.

Stop overgeneralizing. Overgeneralizing means taking a single occurrence of a negative experience and projecting it onto other experiences or to your predictions about how the future will be.

Other findings show that LSD brings out a subconscious web of ideas that aren’t conscious, they are closer to awareness, bridging the gap between the two. The drug is able to alter consciousness and makes the brain connect in ways it normally doesn’t.

How is it that desires rise even after mental concentration is acquired? A--Those are the outcomes of the previous Samskaras (deep-rooted impressions or tendencies).

When Buddha was on the point of merging in Samadhi (superconsciousness), Mara made his appearance.

Take it upon yourself to change your own future through hard work and persistence. For example, if you had a difficult childhood and think your life is going to be difficult forever, you might identify ways in which you want your life to improve, and work to improve them.

According to the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) model, every single second, humans are bombarded with over 2 million bits of data. It’s the subconscious mind’s duty to help filter through that, otherwise, the conscious mind would be extremely overwhelmed, unable to do its job.

There was really no Mara extraneous to the mind; it was only the external reflection of the mind's previous Samskaras.

Continuing the example, perhaps you want more meaningful relationships and a better job. You might research ways to obtain those things and then set goals for yourself in those domains to accomplish.

The subconscious mind goes through this constant barrage of information that is continually being downloaded and sorts through what is necessary at the time, processing 7 chunks of information. This is called “chunking” different groupings of information, rather than one long string of information.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control. The will has to be strengthened by slow, continuous and persevering drill.

To avoid personalization, try to think carefully and logically about events that you are personalizing. It can help to ask yourself some questions.

This is no child's play, no fad to be tried one day and discarded the next.

The results of what the subconscious picks up—the “chunking”—is then communicated to the conscious through images, feelings, sensations, dream and reflexes. The language in which the subconscious communicates is not verbal. There are no words, merely representations.

Everything that the subconscious picks up on is through messaging. It speaks in images, feelings and metaphors. It responds to visualizing what you want, but will also communicate back with images and metaphors in the form of dreams, hunches, and songs that “seem” to pop out of nowhere.

It is a life's work; and the end to be attained is well worth all that it can cost us to reach it; being nothing less than the realization of our absolute oneness with the Divine.

The subconscious mind takes everything literally. This explains why horror movies make us jump in our seats. Or why you’re surprised that the seemingly real picture is—gasp—just Photoshopped.

Most of our thoughts and beliefs about the world are formed on a subconscious level, from the ages of 2 to 7 when learning is subconscious. It is at this time that a child’s perceptions of the world are downloaded and formed.

Surely, with this end in view, and with the knowledge that we can certainly succeed, no price can be too great to pay.

Jim Morrison of The Doors was fascinated with the concept of using art to get in touch with the subconscious mind. He believed in “…a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown… Although I live in the subconscious, our pale reason hides the infinite from us.” Sure dude, whatever you say.

Sit for some time and let the mind run on. You simply wait and watch. Knowledge is power, says the proverb, and that is true. Until you know what the mind is doing you cannot control it.

15 minutes before falling asleep, where the mind and body begin to calm down, muscles loosen up and breathing is more relaxed, this is where the brain produces alpha waves. In this 15- minute window between wakefulness and sleep, there are 7-14 electrical waves each second. This is the subconscious mind’s tunnel open to receive messages.

Give it the rein; many hideous thoughts may come into it; you will be astonished that it was possible for you to think such thoughts.

Breath is under subconscious control—we forget about it, as it comes naturally to us. Ancient Eastern medicine recognizes the importance of breath work and how breath is the link between the conscious and subconscious mind.