A Simple Psychological Hack to Recode Your Mind
Warning: this article can cause immediate transformations
The quality of our lives is determined by the state of our minds, but most of us feel stuck within the old patterns of thinking, and feel discouraged by this.
But what if I told you there is a way of recoding your mind, and it can be applied easily?
So today I’d like to share with you a simple psychological hack to recode your mind, and to apply it, there are two steps to follow.
These are:
1-Free yourself from the fear of being disliked
2-Learn to control your mind, rather than being controlled by it
“Control your thoughts and everything will be under your control.” ― Debasish Mridha
1-Free yourself from the fear of being disliked
I was recently reading a book called “The Courage to Be Disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi, and in the book, there was a line that goes as:
“The courage to be happy also includes the courage to be disliked. When you have gained that courage, your interpersonal relationships will all at once change into things of lightness.”
So it takes courage for us to not sacrifice ourselves to make others like us, and as it is often said in the book, it is the path to true freedom.
The author explains this further as:
“It’s that you are disliked by someone. It is proof that you are exercising your freedom and living in freedom and a sign that you are living in accordance with your own principles.”
This is an important concept because when our minds are frightened by the fear of displeasing others, then it is harder for us to live a life aligned with our inner compass.
That’s why, by understanding this, we can remind ourselves to be courageous against our own inner critic that forces us into people-pleasing and start living our lives.
2-Learn to control your mind, rather than being controlled by it
For most of us, it takes a constant effort to be able to control our minds and not be led by them to places where we don’t want to be. Until last summer, I was also a member of arguing with their own mind club and would struggle to control my mind.
But this was until I read a sentence by Brianne Wiest, and it was that:
“Learn to differentiate what’s actually happening from what you’re currently thinking about.”
Until then I never thought of not taking my mind as seriously as I was taking it, and this shift in my mindset has helped me to destroy many doubts that were causing me to struggle unnecessarily.
So by understanding this, we can learn to create a safe space in our minds, where our thoughts do not lead to direct conclusions of reality, and thus we won’t be weighed down by them.
Final thoughts
Our minds play a major role in our lives, and thus it is important to know how to improve them.
Today I’ve shared with you a simple psychological hack to recode your mind and to apply it, there were two steps to follow.
There were:
1-Free yourself from the fear of being disliked
2-Learn to control your mind, rather than being controlled by it
By applying them, we can clean our minds and make space for new ways of thinking.
Thank you for reading.
-E.K.
