Other People Are Constantly Trying to Seize Control of Your Mind…
Are you aware of this? Do you let them?
Published 2 mins ago on May 1, 2024By Vigilant New
The above meme is teaching a valuable lesson about life, which is why I regularly repost it on my social media.
It is a key moment in the life of someone seeking wisdom when he or she realizes that the only thing they have total and complete control over in this life is…themselves.
Look carefully at the world around you and make this important realization:
In this life, you will always be surrounded by others who want to control and manipulate you for their own ends.
Vast amounts of time, energy, and resources are spent by many on this planet trying to get OTHER PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY WANT THEM TO.
For some people, their entire lives revolve around this.
They put real effort into learning crafty, manipulative tricks that provoke emotional responses in others to get targets they have selected to react how they want to see them react.
Bruce Lee was a damn good martial artist because he recognized very early in his study of Kung Fu and in his later development of Jeet Kune Do that the purpose of martial arts ISN’T to get control of or dominate OTHER PEOPLE.
True martial arts are about the exact opposite of that:
The purpose of training oneself both physically and mentally is to gain ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF YOURSELF. The kind of full self-control where nobody else can mentally or physically unbalance you and seize control of you.
One thing I learned from 8 years of training in Aikido is that life is FULL of people trying to assert control over you, trying to manipulate you, and get you to do what they want you to do.
You will always be a slave to someone else’s control until you learn to master yourself.
This present world is full of master manipulators who are constantly trying to stir you up, to move you into doing what they desire to see you do.
The first step in mastering yourself mentally is learning to reject each and every attempt by others to manipulate you.
You have to recognize when another person, through their words, actions, or both, is trying to put you in a state where they can ‘guide’ you into either saying or doing what they demand of you.
If you are in full and total control of yourself, you will be able to spot and reject master manipulators’ attempts to use words and even physical actions to ‘unbalance’ you, unsettle you, and make you angry, despondent, or fearful.