The blog has been quiet for quite a while and both G King and I agreed to get more sharing posted up to benefit more readers. Therefore, I would like to share some of my personal experiences I have learned during my business trip in last two months.
It all started since the first trip to Bangkok on 23rd January 2009 for a customized system deployment at customer site. Subsequent trips (in fact, up to 5 trips within a month, with half a month stay in Bangkok) were made to 'fix the problems' and trying to achieve a 'sign-off', as things didn't go very well and the objectives were not met.
I have to admit that it was indeed very challenging for me to manage my emotion and direct my mind to stay focus. The process was almost like I was water-rafting over a rough stream. The negative thoughts kept pouring in while I was trying to concentrate at the task on hand, with minimal sleep of only 3-hour every night. The situation get worse when it took me 1 hour to fall asleep (too many thoughts cross my mind during that moments). I went into emotion breakdown.
The situation only improved after I forced myself really hard to take over the control on my mind. Two things that I did that have helped me:
- Calm my mind by ceasing the thoughts
- Then redirect my mind to positive thoughts and emotions only
I have applied the knowledge I have learnt from the following books:
I have learnt from The Chan Handbook that 'When thoughts cease, confusion ends'. Thus, I first ceased my thoughts by using the technique of 'The Heart of the Rose' taught in the book by Robin Sharma. I just direct my mind to 'look at' the rose and clear all other distracting thoughts, at the same time also reduce the pace of my breathing. It takes really long time before I can fully get rid most of other thoughts since my mind was in 'critical stage' of mess. Once I achieve that, I found the calmness I desperately wanted and I felt asleep not long after that.
Once I regain control over my mind, I started to focus on "what I want" instead of "what I don't want" that have continuously happened one right after another. I have applied this strongly during the most recent trip. The result, as expected, are positive!
From this experience, I have learnt that we need to gain control over our mind, but not being controlled. It enlightened me that the Law of Attraction is all about mind control. I would like to quote from
As A Man Thinketh (I stronlgy encourage you
download this free ebook) :
'Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful and pure thoughts.'
Besides, I have also learnt about
A Complaint Free World by Will Bowen from a colleague of mine. I have watched all the videos posted in
YouTube. Again, I encourage you to check this out yourself too! I strongly believe it's going to benefit you.
I hope my experience will serve useful to you. Hope this helps you to further understand the importance of our delibrate control over our mind/thoughts to create the better 'world' we wish for.
Huat Heng
