How To Control Your Mind (8 EASY STEPS)

How to control your mind? It's an interesting question because some individuals will be like that sounds kind of weird. While other individuals will be craving to know how to control your mind because this way if they can control their mind they will be able to talk to that little voice in their head that's telling them that they can't do something. They'll be able to talk to that little voice in their head that's influencing their emotions and thus it depends on the individual. But since you're watching this video most likely you're very interested and thus in this video I will talk about how to control your mind. This video will give you eight actionable steps that you can implement in your life to be able to control your mind and in the long term this will improve your overall lifestyle. But hey before I start if you are someone that's new to this channel and you would love to see more videos like this please consider to hit the subscribe button and leave a thumbs up for the YouTube algorithm. Anyways with that said let's jump into the video. Number one worst case scenario. So when it comes to controlling our mind unfortunately there's a lot of individuals out there that have a little voice in their head telling them the worst case scenario. So every time they want to do something new, every time they're thinking about certain things that they can do their little voice pops up in their mind and tells them about the worst case scenario. What if you fail? What if other people will make fun of you? What if something bad will happen? And to be quite honest just simply think about those scenarios and that little voice is putting doubt in your mind by controlling your mind and playing with your emotions. But hey let's just look at it from a rational perspective for one second. What if the worst case scenario will happen? Just simply think about it because the probability of that happening is very small and thus it shouldn't be that big of a deal. Additionally the worst case scenario for most instances isn't even that bad because if you look at a lot of things from a rational perspective and look at the long-term effects, how it will affect you, how it will shape you and how it contributes to your overall growth, you realize that if you want to succeed in life, if you want to get more things out of life, you have to go through failure and thus facing the worst case scenario allows you to control your mind because this way you'll be able to understand what the worst case scenario is, the effects of it, whether it's something long-term and at the same time looking at it from a rational perspective you'll also understand that the probability of that happening is very slim. Number two from fixed mindset to growth mindset. A very interesting study has been done in regards of this topic so if you are someone that thinks that your old habits are fixed you'll be less likely to be able to change them compared to someone that feels like that you can change them and the only difference between these two ways of thinking is the belief system. In the fixed mindset you don't believe that it's possible while in the growth mindset you do believe that it's possible and the reason that I'm mentioning this is that the thought of controlling your own mind can be very hard for some individuals but if you are a believer, if you genuinely believe that it comes easy to you, if you believe that it's possible it'll be a lot easier to control your mind rather than someone that feels like that you've got a fixed mindset. Number three be optimistic so it's very important to be optimistic if you are someone that wants to be able to control your mind and especially if you are a man because the way that a male brain works is that it tries to get rid of everything that's negative. Excuse me for the analogy but for a male brain everything that's negative is similar to cancer whenever you find it you instantly want to get rid of it however when it comes to a female brain it actually lives from having negative and positive feelings or when it comes to us men we don't like anything negative neutral is fine and positive is also fine and thus studies have shown that individuals that are overly optimistic are able to control their behavior better due to more self-control and thus being optimistic is very important you need to tell yourself that you will succeed you need to tell yourself that you can do it and this way you'll be able to control your mind and get the success that you want and a pro tip is to remind yourself of the successes that you've had think about the times where you actually have control your mind because let's be honest we all have had that moment in our life before where we were able to control our mind and we're able to get the achievement that we were looking for try to think about that moment because this will help you to reanalyze that it is possible this will allow you to be more optimistic and this will allow you to get the goals that you want and another thing that i do in the instances that i feel something is that i instantly smile after it i don't know why i started to do this but there's a lot of scientific evidence behind it that it really helps because the thing about failing at something is that it hurts our ego we feel less of ourself and we start to doubt our ability but when it comes to smiling for some reason every time you smile your body produces those chemicals even if it is a fake smile and this way if you are someone that's gonna smile after you feel you'll be able to have more control over your mind number four change your lens so sometimes it's hard to control our minds sometimes even though we're doing our best and we're doing all of the right things it's just super hard to control our minds because say for example you are on a diet and you see all of these amazing sweets in front of you in that instance it can be quite tempting and it can be quite hard to be able to control your mind and the way you can do this is by changing your lens so instead of looking at those candies as something that's very nice and will have an amazing sensation in your mouth look at those sweets in a way that they are chemicals and they're gonna harm your body look at those sweets as evil something that's gonna ruin your summer body something that will make you feel rubbish after taking them because deep down you know how bad it is and if you simply change your lens and look at it from this perspective it will be easier to control your mind number five stop overgeneralization so the thing about overgeneralization is that sometimes if a certain scenario has happened to us we end up creating some sort of bias and a good example for this is that say for example you enter a new area an area you've never been to before and it's probably one of the safest areas out there by the time that you enter that area you were the unfortunate one that ended up having bad luck perhaps you got robbed you lost something and now you've created some sort of bias towards that certain area even though statistically speaking it's a very good area so what happens when you get the bias is that you're basically telling your mind that every time you're gonna enter that area something bad will happen even though that's not the case and it's quite a hard point to grasp but literally what's happening is that you're giving away control instead of saying that you've got control by going to the area doing whatever you want and you'll be fine you're telling your brain that external factors will have an impact on you even though that's not true another example of overgeneralization is someone that's been through a very hard breakup and now they're claiming that they'll never find love again now they're claiming that they'll never be able to be in a healthy relationship and the rationale for that is incorrect just because you've been through one bad breakup or you've simply been hurt doesn't mean that your future relationships will be the same because what you're doing now is that you're losing control instead of being able to have an impact on future projections you're already assuming that the because the truth is that you are able to get better through hard work and persistence but that's only if you are someone that's willing to take control and if you are someone that's outsourcing your control by creating some sort of bias this will be very hard and thus stop overgeneralization number six avoid personalization so this is a similar point just like the previous one but it's on the other side of the spectrum because with the previous example we were talking about that you're outsourcing your control but when it comes to this point you're taking some variables that are out of control personally and feel like that it's your fault and sometimes our mind takes control of personal responsibilities that are out of our control this makes it very hard to control our mind because you simply can't have control over those variables since they're out of your control because say for example that you and your mate were meant to go out somewhere but you decided to cancel the plans and they still ended up going out and something unfortunate happened and now you're blaming it on yourself because because the way you're thinking is that it's my fault if i did go with them perhaps this wouldn't have happened because i would be there and i would have control over the situation but the truth is you can't change anything after the decisions you've made are made for a reason the decisions that they've made are made for a reason and the outcomes between both decisions is simply the outcome that happened and that's pretty much it and also if you want to control your mind you need to get rid of the thought that you have control over the situation in the instance that you don't because if you don't do this you'll constantly be blaming yourself because you'll constantly be thinking about the scenario and the steps that you could have taken to change it while the reality is that it's simply out of your control now number seven avoid catastrophizing and this happens in the instance when someone blows something out of proportion and loses control and a good example of this is that say you failed a test an unfortunate thing something we understand is never fun but don't act like it's the end of your world don't act like you don't have any other opportunities yes you might fail your degree in the worst case scenario by the end of the day there will still be a lot of opportunities and path coming down the road moreover that's the worst case scenario and we all know that the probability of the worst case scenario is very slim and even if you fail your test don't act like it's the end of the world because this way you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself mentally spiritually and on your body and this doesn't help you in your situation try to get rid of all of the panic all of the emotions and i know it can be very hard to get rid of all the emotions and i've already made a couple of videos that will help you with that and you can find those videos on my channel but the thing that i want to talk about now is that after you get rid of those emotions you need to look at your situation from a rational perspective you failed your test but is it really the end of the world can't you have a reset can't you redo it next year and even if you can't what are the next steps or what are the best next steps that you can take to still achieve your goals or still have a respectable outcome these are some questions that you can ask yourself in a situation like this and this will allow you to be able to have more control over your mind because now you've gotten rid of all of the emotions gotten rid of blowing things out of proportion and thus you'll be able to look at yourself from a rational perspective and have more control over your mind and number eight stop jumping to conclusions and this is something that you see all of the times because we as humans gossip a lot and thus if we hear one thing from a particular individual we assume a lot of things and we instantly make our judgment even though we don't have all of the evidence and what happens is that you're constantly changing your conclusion by jumping from one conclusion to the other conclusion constantly changing your perspective and judgment on a particular individual constantly having a huge impact on your emotion and your relationship with other individuals and this is never a good thing to do because say for example something bad has happened it's never a great idea to instantly jump onto the conclusion look at the situation from all different perspectives look at the situation as if you were an outsider and someone that isn't emotionally involved in the situation and then combine all of the assumptions and all of the evidence that you've got and rationalize your conclusion and the one thing that happens if you look at situations from this perspective is that you get more control over your mind because this way you've looked at the situation from different angles from an outside perspective got rid of all of the emotions got rid of all of the pre-biases pre-judgments and this way you'll be a lot more confident in your conclusion rather than being someone that's constantly jumping from one conclusion to the other conclusion and constantly tricking your own mind and what happens is that if you're constantly changing your mind changing your conclusion you end up tricking yourself and having less self-respect while if you're someone that's looking at the situation from different sources combining all of the data and rationalizing your conclusion you'll end up having more control over your mind and respecting yourself more and if this isn't a life-changing video i don't know what video is because the way i've made this video is by the same structure that i've literally told you i've gathered a lot of different data sources i've rationalized all of the points and try to understand it from your perspective the viewers how i can help in the best way possible and thus if you have any sort of questions please leave them in the comment section down below and i'm more than happy to reply and if you're someone that's new to this channel please consider hitting the subscribe button and leave a thumbs up for the youtube algorithm anyways thank you so much for watching i genuinely appreciate your time and i hope to see you on my next video bye bye