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How to Open Your Mind?

Creativity and love emanates from an open mind. The energy of a human being who possesses an open mind is felt as free and loving, there is no quality of neediness or clinging evident in their vibration. When we look around we find that most people are usually prisoners to close-mindedness. The very nature of a close-minded being is rooted in fear and struggle. The good news is that open-mindedness can be acquired; in fact the truth is that our natural state of being is open-minded.

Insights on How to Open Your Mind

We were all born open-minded but as we grew up we took up a lot of negative conditioning that narrowed our thinking and perspective. All the violence and hatred prevalent in our world is rooted in close-minded thinking where we lose touch with our inherent oneness with all beings. Here are a few pointers on how to open up your mind and heart, and thus invite your true nature to flower through.

Contemplate the oneness of everything – Can you imagine that everything around you actually came from one source? You are not different or separate from anything that you perceive as your external world or your inner world. Everything has stemmed from the one source and is in essence just the “one”. Two cannot come from one, so even though we perceive duality, in essence there is no separation. So when you love another, it’s like you are loving yourself and when you criticize another it’s like you are criticizing yourself. This true perspective can open your mind completely and you will become rooted in unconditional love which is the nature of your source.

Stop struggling and just be – Contrary to what you have always been told, intelligence does not come from your brain but it comes from your entire being. In truth there is no border to your being, it’s infinite and it’s eternal. When you stop trying to figure things out, when you stop struggling to work out problems and when you let go of the conditioned habit to keep thinking, and allow yourself to simply rest in your being and you will notice creative solutions coming up. Just stay relaxed in a state of “letting be”, stop struggling, and see how easily your life unfolds and how open your thinking becomes.

Let go of worrying about the future – Most of us stay rooted in stress because we are constantly focused on our future in a negative way. We envision the problems that are going to come up in the future (most of them purely imagined with no concrete reality) and so we spend our present in a state of stress and worry. No creative solution can ever come when we exist in this state. Trust life, let go of worrying and just relax into the now. Life is a stream of well-being, and when you stop resisting it through negative thinking, it will always bring abundance. All you need to do is let go and trust life to work for you. As you let go, and live in the cradle of life, you start becoming more joyful and open-minded as you see all your problems and struggle dissolve.