Simple programming for your mind

My writing from yesterday got me thinking about the awesome power of the mind.

When a mind is closed no new opportunities can arrive. Solutions to problems can not be thought up and nor can they be enacted. When you are close minded thoughts that are not in agreement with yours are automatically wrong. All barriers and obstacles are completely impenetrable. No new growth is possible.

When a mind is open opportunities arrive all the time. Solutions to problems show up by the truckload. When you are open minded thoughts that are not in agreement with yours open the door to new ways of thinking, allowing for new thoughts and beliefs. With an open mind you have the power and the inclination to test what others say and if they be true to add them to your store of knowledge. And even if they are not true they may lead you to the discovery of new truths. Challenges that were previously impossible shrink or even disappear completely before the open mind.

Also, take a few moments and think on this. Close minded people are automatically more negative people with less happiness in their lives. Open minded people are automatically more positive people with more happiness in their lives.  Close-mindedness goes hand in hand with negativity, anger, depression, sorrow,worry and a life filled with difficult problems. Conversely open-mindedness brings with it positivity, joy, happiness,freedom from worry and doubt and the knowledge that no matter what life throws at you, you can handle it. Think about all the people you know whose lives are working for them. They are open minded people are they not? Now think of all the others you know. They are generally close minded people aren't they?

If you had the choice, which would you choose to be? Open minded no doubt. Well, that's the beauty of it. You do have a choice. Having an open or a closed mind is a conscious choice that you can and should make if you want the power to make your life work for you. And it does not matter how long you have been choosing close-mindedness. You can make a new choice at any time.

Open your mind to new possibilities, to opportunities, to solutions, to new better ways of doing things. Give up the old ways that are not working for you. Each and every time new data is presented to you, give it a chance. Stop automatically discarding it. Accept what other say as possible, even if it directly conflicts with what you already believe. Take the time to test out the new data using all of the tools at your disposal. Search for evidence that it is true, more strongly than you search for falsehood.
But seek both. For a person can always find ways to disprove a theory, even one that is true.

It may turn out that in the search for truth, your original belief was wrong. The new data may be wrong. Or both. But, new growth and opportunities to better yourself will automatically occur as a result, if you search for the truth with an open mind.