The Art Of Mind Control

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If I handed you a 10,000-piece puzzle and asked you to put it together in two hours or less – and oh by the way – you don’t get to see the picture before hand, would you do it?

Probably not before asking yourself two critical questions:

  1. Why?
  2. What’s in it for me?

Maybe not even in that order, right?

This is what your mind does for every hope and dream of yours in LIFE.  It’s fear based thinking is holding you as a prisoner “for your own good”.

Why?

It doesn’t LIKE puzzles without end games; your mind needs to see how hard the puzzle is going to be before it decides if it can obtain “success”.

Your mind avoids failure at all costs.

Now let’s pretend I was your boss and said you had to do the puzzle or you’d lose your job. Would you do it then?

Probably.

But then again it would depend on how important your mind felt the job was and if the reward was worth the risk. In this case keeping the job might feel like the “safer” option so it would deem it as something worth doing to try to avoid the “pain” of the job loss; it would be doing it out of “fear”?

How do you think it would it feel to do a meaningless task out of fear?

Is it really that big of a stretch for you to imagine? I doubt it.

In fact, if you’re like I was, you probably waste most of your time doing something for nothing every day. Having no clear picture of what you want or moving tasks around randomly to feel productive is no different than putting together this 10,000 piece pointless puzzle.

But what if it wasn’t “pointless”…

What if I told you there was a secret message on the puzzle that was going to change your life and make all your dreams come true?

Assuming you believed me… you’d jump at the chance to give it a shot – what would you have to lose? And I bet you’d find a way to actually complete that puzzle, too.

Why? Because you knew there was a real reason to.

Yet, you struggle to treat your LIFE like you would a puzzle, in this paradigm.

What if you KNEW, all you had to do was trust you had the right pieces, knowing everything you did was worth it.  What if you could believe all you had to do was put it together carefully to have everything you ever wanted.

How outrageous would that feel?

Even without the picture to “guide you” it might seem harder or maybe take longer, just believing the end result was going to be worth it would make all the difference in the world.

You would no longer pontificate on your purpose, you’d evaluate each moment on its own merit knowing it was all coming together.

Can you imagine how easy it would be for you to be present in each moment, knowing every piece you found was putting you one more step closer to having everything you ever wanted?

Wouldn’t it feel outrageous?

Pay attention and be aware to keep YOU from getting in YOUR way.

Know all the pieces of the puzzle are right there and you have everything you need to put it together.  Then tap into your internal power source as a more effortless way to live and enjoy your life.

It feels outrageous when you can finally see the opportunities all around you and begin accepting them with your heart, mind and soul – trust me – I was blind, but now I see and so can you – if you think you can.

Want to feel great every single week? NOW YOU CAN!

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  • http://www.Mazzastick.com Justin | Mazzastick

    Hi Lori,
    The mind can be a precarious thing at times. I wonder how much our minds really do get in the way of us. It would be a cool experiment to do what feels right without allowing the mind to analyze and process “why” to do it.

    • http://lorirtaylor.com lori

      You bring up a great point. I asked my teacher in India this. I said how do you know when it’s your mind vs your intuition or spirit.

      He said words I’ll never forget because as soon as he spoke them I KNEW they were true (for me at least).

      If it brings you joy or peace – it’s your mind. If you feel frustrated, stressed, or scared it is your mind.

      When you hear the truth without resisting there is always an element of peace – a sigh of relief of some sort.

      Here’s something you can try – say something you totally believe is a lie – for me it would be I hate my horse and want to sell him. Say it 3 times – feel the resistance in your body – is it in your stomach? Neck? Hands? Just find the physical reaction to the lie.

      Now say something you know is 120% true. I love my daughter, sister, mother etc. Something that you know without a doubt is true.

      Now feel that!

      So now ask yourself an important question – let an answer come. Then repeat the exercise out loud

      Pay attention to the feeling to tap into a power beyond your mind. :)

      • http://lifepassion.net Keith Cook

        Hello Lori. It’s great to connect with you and I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. I really like the insight and technique used above. It was simple and it really works. I hope you won’t mind if I use it. I went to your blog and have bookmarked it. You have a lot of interesting articles and I enjoy reading them. Thank you for sharing again.

  • http://www.mylifemotivation.com Matt Maresca

    I was wondering where you were going with the puzzle story. Glad I kept reading!

    We certainly do get in our own way just about everyday. We can’t always see the finished product in what we are doing in our lives, but that’s the beauty of it. We are CREATING something special with each action we take. It is up to our imagination to create something amazing by living each moment in an extraordinary way.

  • http://www.dontfeedthesheep.com Robert

    My life can definitely be summed up as a 10,000 piece puzzle. I’ve got through about 200 pieces, so I don’t have much more to go :)

    Really good article Lori. When we think of our lives as a puzzle, we don’t need to see the picture because we’re creating the end picture as we go. We can either create a dark, gloomy puzzle or we can make one as bright and vibrant as we’d like.

    I choose the fun one :)

    • http://lorirtaylor.com lori

      Robert I’ve always been an over achiever and found out at age 25 when I found my biological father I came by it naturally – ha. (That’s a-whole-nother story.)

      But when I was in 3rd grade our teacher had us color a picture. She then asked us to cut it up in a a “few” pieces. I of course cut it into a zillion. Ok maybe not a zillion, but it sure felt like a lot as I sat by myself well into recess trying to put humpty dumpy back together again.

      And sometimes when I throw the keys to my life to the mind, it’s how my life feels.

      I get so caught up in finding every single teeny tiny piece I forgot that unlike a puzzle from a box, our lives are fluid and dynamic – that we can truly make any piece work.

      There is a plan we are participating in…so yeah – turn up the lights!

      Have a good one.

  • http://www.clintcora.com/freeinspirationpersonalgrowth.html Clint Cora Personal Growth

    I can certainly see this topic related to goal setting in some way. We need to have clear goals in mind in order to go ahead and put these puzzles together. If there are no goals in mind, we just won’t bother with these puzzles as mentioned. With real goals firmly embedded into our systems, a puzzle even being 20,000 pieces will still be a willing project to undertake as long as those goals are what we really want.

  • http://www.mobivation.com Paul Harrison

    Hi Lori

    Thanks for the post.

    One thing that struct me was this line below:

    “How do you think it would it feel to do a meaningless task out of fear?”

    Now this is something I thought about reading a book by Dwayne “Dog” Chapman (AKA Dog the Bounty Hunter). Now I LOVE this show as I think there is a whole lot more to this guy than the peroxide, the mace and the muscles. He has a very unique understanding of human beings …. but thats a whole nother post :-)

    He was talking about being in jail in Texas in the 70′s. He was talking about when they would be tied up on the chain gangs and have to go out and “make big rocks, little rocks” with sledge hammers.

    I pictured this and thought : “What kind of impact would that have on convicts?” I mean, think about it. If the jail is there as a correctional facility, doing this kind of work is going to make them more frustration as they are doing it for no benefit and out of fear of what might happen if they don’t do it….

    That would certainly make me even more resentful than what I would be if I was doing some manual labour that was going to benefit someone else and that I got some degree of job satisfaction from….

    Sorry if that went off track a bit but it was the impact of that one line :-)

    Cheers

    Paul Harrison

  • Favarsalona

    Hi Lori
    I found this to be true in my life. My mom was adopted from Appalachia into a middle class family. She still mated with her uncle and had me, married a sadistic man, a child molester and never worked ( lived on welfare). We were so poor we could only wash our sheets about once every six month in a washer. The rest of the time we did our laundry in the bath tub! I can relate as I found my biological family and they look just like my mom and act like her too. They ( my mom and her bio family) have never met but look and act exactly alike. Poor, inbred and mentally ill. wow- I was surprised to read the article you wrote because it really is true. I have the same blood and I can understand how they think but I have gone to college but work with the homeless, I have adopted children from child protective services. I am unable to have children due to child molest, have had 10 surgeries and a hysterectomy by age 35. Ive been taken advantage of because I always give and never think about me. I have always been so grateful to have survived this mess. Thanks for listening.