THE MIND by Gift Uche Mbonu

 

The mind is a beautiful piece of art but you cannot place a definition on the mind, the mind is a complex thing where creativity comes to rest at least that’s what I think about it. Now close your eyes... ask yourself what the human existence would be without the mind, the ability to think, and most of all the ability to be different, surely we would still think the earth is flat because at some point humanity thought so except for the existence of a different mind who with the necessary information dared to think differently and now we know the earth is spherical, by the way this is no lecture about the earth neither is it a lecture on what the mind is supposed to be.

We are talking  about the mind which everyone has access to and the wonderful thing about your mind is that no one mind is greater than the other the only difference would probably be the usefulness, usage etc and that’s why i will be focusing on some which is the mind profile, set up, make up, control and mindset.

Take for example your are in a dilemma about a situation, let’s just say you went to buy a shirt but you got there and the one you had in mind what you wanted but on getting there they were out of stock but had other options but you’ve made up your mind on what you wanted there is a possibility that you might decide to stick  to what you wanted or if the sales person was able to persuade you into changing your mind to get the available, the moral here is when you got to the store you had in mind what you wanted and that is a perfect example of making up one’s mind i.e. mind make up, theoretically mind make up is to take a stand on something without wavering. Making your mind up is a situation you will faced with every single day of your life for instance you have to make your mind to get out of bed and start the day, some will choose to spend all day doing absolutely nothing and when faced with the question of what they did all day their response is ‘I did not do anything throughout today’ where as they did something very crucial which was to make a decision and even if the decision involved doing nothing, it cannot be ruled out as nothing.

How you make your mind up or what you make up your mind to do is now what defines you, it’s this decision that makes you different. However, how do you make up your mind and choose to go with that particular decision? That’s where intuition comes in. When most people think intuition is just that magical sense people make of it rather it’s a combination of past experiences and personal values that’s why babies are not expected to make their mind up now making up your mind does not entirely rest on your intuition but also with proper reasoning using facts and figures is another effective way to make your mind up but personally i think it’s using both intuition and facts because I doubt  its ever appropriate to be one sided in anything at all.

Furthermore, remember when ever an event occurs and you hear the statement ‘your mind is not sure’ then you hold the left or right part of your chest or whenever you’re asked to brainstorm and you tap your forehead profusely??Now i can’t help but wonder the location of the mind. the mind is abstract unlike every other part of the human body when if there is a need for it you go in search of it, the mind is abstract and so the location is still unknown, till when ever that is known i think we are stuck beating our chest whenever we try to prove a point that we have made up our mind. The mind set and the way the mind is set are very similar but different in a way, for the mind to be set up in a certain way means the individual must have gone through some certain experience i.e. education, life in general because different circumstances breed the mind set up of each individual else there wouldn’t be any need to categorize people based on their mentality.

You must have heard the popular saying ‘you are the average of five people you choose to spend time with – Jim Rohm’ when you meet successful individuals like entrepreneurs or executives they always have a similar mentality when it comes to the outlook of life, you hear them say things like they do more of action, let go of the things that are holding you back, they identified their purpose and worked towards it, now you may see it as nothing but if ten successful executives say how their mind is set up then i can call these the successful mindset.

The ability to know how to position your mind to a particular set up is what makes you stand out as an individual who is capable of controlling the mind, the most common way to this is through meditation, concentration because it creates more awareness and understanding because after the process it helps improve the memory and comprehension becomes faster, all these i have stated are what makes up the mind profile in a nutshell.