HEALING THE FRACTURED MIND WITH A STRUCTURED MIND!

Down times are bound to come around in our academic and career lives. Failure too is a compulsory companion in our quest for a resounding and lasting victory in life. Rudyard Kipling in his popular poem ‘IF’ said;

if we can meet with success and failure and treat these two impostors just the same……then you will be a man my son!

You know, I have often heard people say things like, ‘I can’t make it’, ‘No way! I can’t graduate with a first class’, ‘Oh! There’s no way I can surpass that dude’s record! It’s just unbeatable’, or they say, ‘I have tried too many times and it seems I am jinxed not to make it’, ‘A’s? No way, not for a guy like me’! But then I am always quick to respond to all these ‘exclamations’ WHO THEN IS SUCCESS MEANT FOR? If it is not meant for you who then is it meant for? If you can’t break an existing record, who should? If you cant see ahead for yourself, who should? If all you engulf your heart with are thoughts of I CANT, I WILL NEVER, I AM NOT MEANT TO…then you are on your way to FRACTURING YOUR MIND!

 

There is a maximum resistance that our minds can offer to the ills and failures we feed to it. For every failure we absorb and allow down into our subconscious, there is a terrible subjective force exerted. The more of this we allow, the more our mind resistance is broken down until we have a MIND FRACTURE.

Mind fracture is a state of mind breakdown where the compressive forces from failure signals overshadow the tensile strength of the mind thus causing it to ‘snap’ or break.

 It is similar to what happens when we fracture any bone in the body. It causes a disorder that causes a lot of pain. It subsequently requires some time to heal after the appropriate corrective measures have been taken. It can also be likened to a heart break. A state of heart shatter when it seems our life is broken into pieces. Sad enough but that’s what we are liable to suffer from when we allow minor setbacks rule our hearts.

Good news is that it is curable in record time! The Plaster of Paris (P.O.P) to be applied to correct the fracture is called STRUCTURE. A fracture causes the mind to shatter, losing its form and shape, however structure, when introduced, heals the fracture and makes the mind whole again. It pulls every bit and pieces together into a unified entity that can only be shattered again only if allowed to!

A structured mind is that which recognizes the network of the various facets of our lives and creates a healthy bond amongst them.

In this, there is a transfusion of the joys and successes from one facet of our lives to another thus fostering a bond and unity that cannot be broken. For example, a happy home naturally generates a happy attitude to work! Many students fail in school because they allow the challenges at home to override their success genes. It’s not a crime to come from a problematic home. I come from a polygamous setting and it is quite unhealthy none-the-less, it never for once ‘flowed’ into other aspects of my life. Why? My mind is well structured. I have built it in such a way that only the positives flow around to other parts, watering the seed of greatness in them. The negative things stay where they belong until they are expunged from my mind completely!

In our academic and career lives, we have come against daunting situations, some have even fractured our minds but let me tell you this – the best is just around the corner, allow joy to flow through your mind, healing every wound along its way, forming the right structure that will be unshakable. The route to this is as follows:

TRAVEL FROM

Fracture: A state of total dejection, pains from past failures and emotional trauma. A point where it seems as if you will never be able to get your acts together again

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Culture: A deliberate effort to put the past behind and brace the mind for the victory ahead. It’s like the first-aid to fracture preparing it for the next phase of healing, picking up the broken heart pieces and bracing them together for proper cementing.

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Structure: This is the POP caste that solders all broken pieces together. It leverages on the culture already applied as first aid to cement a heart into a rigid form that is whole and ready for new challenges. With the proper cast of the structure, it only takes some time for the broken mind pieces to be healed.

Infrastructure: This is the end product. A wholly healed mind becomes infrastructure. Infrastructure is the engine of any economy, like-wise the mind infrastructure is the engine of our being. We generate those lofty ideas and efforts that propel us to the next level. It is the electricity and transportation of our being without which we just barely exist.

The simple journey is from FRACTURE – CULTURE – STRUCTURE – INFRASTRUCTURE. With this, we are yet a step closer to finding the fulfillment we so desire in our lives. Stay tuned to this blog, more teaching to follow in coming weeks. Thank you for reading, I love you!