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What Consumes Your Mind Controls You


We live in a competitive Information world today. Competitive Information because every bit of information, whether bad or good,  from a single one to about a billion of them is fighting to get our undivided attention.
There are only two places these Information we see (on TV) read ( in Newspapers) and listen ( to on Radio) are hoping to get to; and that's our minds and our hearts.
From movie producers and directors in Hollywood, Music and Record producers to advertisers and marketers promoting famous products and brands. They capture our attention by predicting (guessing) our moods and thoughts before they finally put up words, images and video content that can convince us immediately to buy their products. They simply capture our minds by making us answer simple random and general questions about human behaviour and from our Yes and No answers, they are able to study our ways of thinking and then go on to craft or design messages that will convince us to buy that iPhone 11 Pro Max at a $1,099 in a blink of an eye without we thinking about it.  Or better still that Louis Vuitton or Fendi handbag for $3,000 in a snap.
Why??? Because these companies have been able to capture our minds and hearts with their products so much that we often see other products as inferior quality and only theirs as an accepted product of high quality even though both products are of same value and function.
In connection to our personal lives, we often have negative attitudes like anger, bitterness, sadness, stress and anxiety etc, we struggle to shake them off our minds because we feel them, and we have every right to feel that way because other people have done bad things to us and our brains with the help of our minds helps us to think and react to our feelings that way.  Feeling that way in our minds and hearts is a right reaction because of the bad things done to us. But it becomes destructive and poisonous when we continue to hold on to those negative thoughts or feelings for so long without letting them go or freeing ourselves (our minds) completely of it.
Because we convince our minds and hearts with the words we tell ourselves that we still have every right to feel that way after a long time when in reality we should have been able to forget about it or put our mind off it because that bad thing has happened and passed on and that person who probably did those bad things to us needs to be forgiven.
To connect these two examples, by now, we should come to understand that the things that control our minds whether in a negative or positive way is able to control or consume our minds for that long because we allow it to. And we allow it because we convince ourselves or allow other people to convince us that it is the right thing to do. Especially the negative emotions or feelings.

So let me end by asking you again,

What consumes or control your mind?

Do those thoughts or feelings control you in a negative or in a positive way?

*Kwame Sarpong*

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