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How to Command and Master Your Emotions

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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 CHAPTER 1: WHERE DO EMOTIONS COME FROM? 6

CHAPTER 2: WHY COMMAND THE EMOTIONS? 17

CHAPTER 3: MIND OVER WILL 22

CHAPTER 4: BENEFITS OF AN AUTHORITATIVE MIND 43

CHAPTER 5: THE POWER OF ANCHORS 50

CHAPTER 6: TRUE STORIES OF PEOPLE COMMANDING EMOTIONS 54 BONUS DOCUMENTARY: NEO-SPIRITUALISM 63

CONCLUSION 69

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INTRODUCTION

People have always wondered if it is possible to control emotions. Yet, our topic

is not mere controlling, but commanding our emotions. This seems to complicate matters

more. Can we actually command something within in us that, for years, have been

regarded as involuntary impulses? They say emotions just happen to you and you have no

choice but to feel them. Trying to “command” emotions is almost saying you can tell

your heart to stop beating pronto, right there and then!

People are scared to death to think what will happen once their hearts just

suddenly stop. But really, the chances of it suddenly stopping are quite narrow compared

to its continuous functioning.

The real wonder is not that the heart might abruptly stop, but that it could be

subjected to obedience. By obedience, we mean how to make it produce the right

emotions to make us feel good.

Emotions are lifetime companions. We cannot get rid of them. As long as we’re

alive, feelings will be there to accompany our actions or even inactions. Traditional

knowledge tells us we are slaves of our emotions. Emotions make our day. They decide

whether we get up in a good mood in the morning or in good spirits when we get in bed

at night. Some people even give their emotions the authority to mold their destiny. There

are people who succumb to bad emotions and even get a fatal heart attack because of that.

Moreover, there are people who let emotions get the better of them all their lives.

You see them become virtual puppets of their moods. They say or act as if they have no

other choice but to obey what their moods or emotions dictate them to do. They go to

work everyday with wrinkled faces and bad behaviors. They crumple other lives they

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meet along their path too. Their reason: They had a fight with their spouse earlier, or

some jerk cut them off the road. Perhaps they would blame the weather for it, or the

plunging economy. This brings us to another question: Are emotions mere hostages to

what happens around us or to what other people do to us?

When we surrender to traditional and man-made concepts without examining

them awhile, we find misery and slavery waiting for us. Many people, among them

professionals and leaders, are prisoners of their moods and emotions. They may be

productive career-wise, but they are terribly inept in handling themselves properly in

crisis — or what they call crisis management. When you let your emotions fail you, your

being slowly disintegrates, and your career goes along with it.

But now you can take charge! You have been given a choice to take over or be

taken over by your emotions. Emotions are made for you, not you for your emotions. If

you choose to, you can always be the best you can be, emotions and all. Emotions are

designed as added extras to highlight the positive impressions you make. They are not

there to make you an object of pity, revulsion, or horror.

So let us stop being used and instead start using our emotions and will right now!

Let us declare a day of freedom from negative emotions. A new day of powerful practical

thinking is dawning. Let’s welcome it with open hands. Do you see it coming?

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CHAPTER 1 WHERE DO EMOTIONS COME FROM?

Have you ever tried to see where emotions really originate? As they say, early

detection is a big help to the cure. If you catch it at its first stage, perhaps you can get rid

of it right there and then. That saves you lots of troubles. Is that right?

Well, let’s see.

First, let’s have a common definition of what emotions are. Let’s make sure we’re

talking of the same things.

A. WHAT IS AN EMOTION?

An emotion is an inner feeling that reacts to a certain stimulus. A stimulus is

something that spurs or prompts your emotion. It is often something that is introduced

from the outside. For instance, a car drives past and splashes dirty water on you. The

stimulus is the splashing of the water. Then, let’s say you get angry because you’re all

wet with dirty water. That’s your reaction. Emotion is a matter of cause and effect. It is

how you decide to be after a thing happens.

You cannot have an emotion without any stimulus. You cannot cry over spilled

nothing. There has to be spilled milk or something. There has to be a reason for an

emotion to show. The basic principle always is, “When you feel an emotion, there is

some reason or stimulus.”

B. WHAT CAUSES AN EMOTION?

A stimulus, however, does not cause you to feel an emotion. It merely tempts you

to react. How you react is entirely up to you. A stimulus does not and cannot create

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emotion in you. It can only incite you to act or react. It cannot decide what kind of

response you will have. The effect of any stimulus is just to lure you, and its work ends

there. You make the decision of how to act or react to a given situation. The emotion you

show depends on how practical and mature you are. Practicality and maturity are all

qualities of the mind.

An emotion cannot think for itself. Your mind supplies the thinking. Brain dead

patients kept alive by machines cannot feel anymore. Physicians say they are clinically

dead. Those in a coma, on the other hand, often have their mind-control over their bodies

just slightly weakened for a while. Sometimes, it is said that talking to a patient in a coma

may help him recover because his mind still functions. When this is the case, his mind

probably still faintly receives stimuli from his ears or skin. However, the command of the

mind over the will is still too weak to get to full consciousness. When the patient’s mind

begins to pick up stronger positive stimuli (like encouraging words from love ones), it

grows stronger. Soon it is able to command the emotions to respond positively. Then the

mind and emotions boost up the will to revive. The patient then recovers.

If a coma patient still has his body functions going without the help of machines,

he has a big chance for recovery. Otherwise, it means the mind is failing. The brain is

slowly dying.

The mind controls major body functions, among them the emotions and will.

Emotions can never act independently of the mind. Whatever emotions we show

originate from the mind.

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So don’t blame your crabby neighbor or cranky customer whenever you’re having

a bad day. Your negative emotion didn’t come from them. They have no power over you.

It came from inside of you.

This is worth repeating. Remember:

Do not give any stimulus credit it does not deserve.

Stimuli do not put emotions in you. It cannot put anything in

you. They merely present themselves to you.

An angry neighbor, boss, or parent does not have power to make you angry

against your will. Let’s say the stimulus is a mad dog. How would you react? If your

mind opts for life, you’d probably run for your life instead of getting angry. If your mind

opts for dignity, then you’d get angry and perhaps look for some object to threaten the

dog with. If you see a high wall (stimulus to your eyes), your mind may deem it an

immediate protection. It may command your glands to secrete enough adrenalin. Your

legs would suddenly have the super power to run to the wall like a speeding bullet. Then

in all likelihood, you’d jump over it with a single bounce! Then you find your heart beats

like crazy.

Now, don’t tell me a mad dog has power to put all that in you.

Some people may choose to fight off mad dogs out of fear or anger. When a

father sees his dear child being attacked by a dog, he’d surely fight the dog out of rage. A

dog pound employee, on the other hand, may go after dogs without fear or anger. It is

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because he loves his job. Naughty kids may decide to have themselves chased by angry

neighborhood dogs, not due to fear, but for fun.

Trained emotions

The idea that emotions can be trained says a lot about how important mental

command is to regulate emotions.

For instance, emotions play a vital role in training dogs. Trained dogs are made to

obey mostly by voice commands. The trainer believes in his mind that he can command

the dog to obedience. So his mind tells his voice to give a sharp and authoritative

command (backed with emotions). “Fetch!” he commands. As he sees the dog repeatedly

obeying him, his mind is encouraged. “It works!” he may tell himself. The more his mind

is empowered by the result he sees, the easier the emotions are made to obey. Soon,

confidence is reinforced. The will becomes stronger. We see that positive emotions

encourage or reinforce the power of the mind.

When the mind does not see immediate success, the emotions may work

negatively. This may cause the mind to give up. The emotions often take over at this

point and tell the mind to quit. This is what happens when emotions command.

Emotions are supposed to merely support or encourage the mind, not command it.

In anything, supporters must never take over. They must only cheer. Cheering squads

perk up the spirits of athletes. They never tell players how the game must be played. They

cannot decide who wins.

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Politicians have supporters. Politicians are supposed to have the plans that

supporters fund and support. When supporters get to push the politicians around, we have

corruption and chaos.

In the same way, emotions must always take the back seat and must be contented

in supporting the plans of the mind, win or lose.

A m ind determined to succeed will try and try again. It will command the

emotions to produce courage against all odds. This courage, in turn, feeds the mind to be

more determined. This is what we call a positive mind.

Let’s go back to the dog training example. The dog obeys even without being able

to define what “fetch” is. You see the power of the human mind to command animals?

What makes the dog — or any trained animal for that matter — obey? We again go back

to the basics of how the mind commands the emotions and will.

The dog is trained to react to a specific stimulus by a system of rewards or

punishments. Rewards and punishments aim at the emotions. When the dog hears the

voice or whistle of the trainer, its mind recognizes the stimulus. The dog’s mind,

stimulated by repetitive conditioning, remembers the reward for obedience. The mind

sends signals to its emotions, and it gets excited to obey. It also fears the punishment for

disobedience. The mind and emotions then tell the will to act accordingly.

The stimulus does not produce the emotions. You choose what emotions to have

when you see a stimulus.

Let’s say a mad dog is after you and you decide to calm down instead of

panicking. Is that possible? You can still run for your life, but not out of fear. Now, let’s

say you decide to run due to anger — which though rare, really happens. You are angry

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because the dog has put you in an awkward situation. Besides, if it bites you, you think of

the visits to the doctor for tetanus and anti-rabies shots. What a waste of time and money!

Thus, you are angry.

Now, going back to the water-splashing car incident we discussed earlier. In that

example, you can get angry if you choose to succumb to anger. You can choose to go on

the rest of the day blaming your anger on the dirty water splashed on you. On the other

hand, you can choose to think of it as a funny incident and laugh at what happened to you

all you want. Better yet, you can just shrug your shoulders and smile. You got wet with

dirty water. So what?

An emotion is t h e result of a process that went on in your nervous system,

triggered by a stimulus. Your brain spearheads the nervous system. The brain sends

signals through the nerves to a specific body organ relevant to the stimulus. Hence, the

brain has the major part in how you react to a stimulus. It is the brain, and not the

stimulus, which decides what emotions you show.

In short, it’s all up to you. It depends on how you have trained yourself to respond

to stimuli. You are the master of your emotions and no one else.

C. THE REACTION PROCESS

When the stimulus presents itself, the brain examines it through what we call the

mind.

The mind is the intangible brain. The brain works in conjunction with your five

senses in relation to thoughts, ideas, and imagination. The five senses send to the brain

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what they receive. Then the brain analyzes and weighs them. When this happens, the

mind has functioned.

The brain is the jelly-like substance surgeons see inside the skull. It is the

physical form of the mind. In the process of thinking, the brain is the organ while the

mind is the function. Like in the process of being alive, the heart is the organ while life is

the function. The heart is tangible. Life is intangible.

You cannot see the mind when you open up the skull. You see the brain. The

moment you use your brain, as when you think or analyze, that’s the time the mind is

“seen.” Then it sends its signals to a specific body organ. The organ reacts in the way the

brain tells it to, and thus, the reaction manifests. All these occur in a fraction of a second!

When the skin on the arm receives an attack, the message is sent to the brain. The

brain may, for instance, analyze it to be something itchy. Brain waves will immediately

be sent to that skin part, saying “itchy.” Then your hand (again commanded by the brain)

starts to scratch that part of your arm. Internally, this is how the brain works. Externally,

you think of scratching your arm. Your mind works. This is your physical reaction.

Emotion-wise, when you hear someone shout at you, the brain receives it from

your ear. It may be analyzed as an offense or a mere emphasis, depending on how your

brain examines the tone, pitch, and context of the sound. If the analysis proves it be an

offense, the brain sends a “hurt” or “danger” message to your heart and probably also to

your endocrine glands. These glands, probably with the pancreas, would stimulate a

process in the adrenalin glands that produce the needed adrenalin to keep you alert and

ready for action.

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All the above internal processes now manifest externally on you as when you

shout back, or when your eyes widen in shock. You may also back away in fear or

readiness, or merely grimace. The mind now starts to be “seen.” This is also what people

see as your emotional reaction.

The brain depends on senses in analysis (but not in conclusion).

When one sense organ malfunctions, your brain fails to analyze a stimulus

correctly. An example of this would be a time when you have a cold and your nose barely

catches any scent. Your brain may fail to differentiate what is fragrant from what is not.

Yet you know that perfumes smell good. Your nose may tell you differently, but you may

conclude anyway, “It smells differently now that I have a cold, but I know that this

perfume smells good.”

Likewise, when you are sick, your brain may fail to recognize the intent of an

action (like you fail “to see” the motive behind) and you may get angry instead of getting

pleased. Thus, people may say you are “narrow-minded” because of such emotional

reaction. Yet, you can also conclude that, “I know this guy is good to me. He is doing

something I cannot understand now that I am sick. But knowing him to be a good person,

I’ll just take it that he is intending to do me good. I’ll probably understand everything he

is doing for me later when I feel better.”

Brain, senses, and the emotions

Let’s say a man points a gun to your head. The brain sends distress signals to your

nerves that reach your heart and other organs. The message blurted is: “This is a bad

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situation. This can cost you your life!” Your endocrine systems (which are closely related

to the nervous system) and pancreas start to work. They pump adrenalines out of your

adrenal glands. These adrenalines stimulate your heart to pump faster. Then you feel

nervous. The signals also reach your muscles, and you may feel tensed. Nevertheless,

good doses of adrenalines are always ready to propel you to action. At times, they enable

you to do a super act that is not possible in ordinary times. It depends on your brain

whether to use this ready power to suit the situation.

The above is the common reaction people have when faced with danger. But a

radical change may be introduced at this point. The body organ, made subject to the

brain, can be induced to react in a different way. The brain may intercept a negative

emotion from manifesting and command a positive emotion to be released instead. Is this

possible?

Remember that the brain is the leader in the nervous system. It can decide

everything, with a little imagination and training. Thus, instead of eliciting fear and

panic, the brain can tell the body organs to keep calm and assess the situation first. Many

expert negotiators in hostage situations show a calm attitude in dealing with culprits. The

manifestation of calmness is made even on short notice. They command their bodies to

relax and treat the situation as an ordinary one. This shows brain effectiveness focusing

on quick and accurate analysis of the hostage takers, the hostages, and the total situation.

They can even command their voices not to tremble to show their confidence.

Let’s say somebody proposes that he or she loves you. It’s not your emotion that

first gets the message. It’s your brain. Your brain examines everything in an instant —

his or her looks, his or her other qualities, what his or her standing has been in relation to

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you, and perhaps many other considerations. All these occur in the wink of an eye. The

brain is built with a natural super processor that can analyze things in a fraction of a

second; more so when it is trained to even hasten its data processing. It sends the

processed data to the heart and you feel an emotion. If you choose to, you may command

a positive emotion to show.

The mind may decide to tell the emotion to reciprocate or “return the favor.” It

may also by-pass the emotion and may decide to give the situation (the love proposal)

more time to think about. The mind may decide on a reciprocal love, or a simple

rejection. On the other hand, it may decide to just settle on a mere shrug and an “I-see-

you-as-a-friend” casual reply.

The stimulus does not go directly to the emotion. It is picked up by the senses

(eyes, ears, nose, skin, mouth), which act as a kind of antenna or radar. Then it goes to

the brain for processing. The brain decides everything, from analysis to conclusion. It can

decide to rule the emotions, or abdicate power to the same. When it abandons power and

gives in to the emotions, then you see a person easily swayed by feelings.

D. THE BRAIN’S ACCURACY

If you are slapped on your right cheek, the brain identifies the attack as a slap on

the right cheek. It then sends something like an “ouch!” signal to your nervous system

and tells it the attack is painful. So you feel pain on your right cheek. The brain performs

an analysis on the implications of being slapped on the face, and then sends a final signal

to your emotions. This is the time you manifest the emotion; for example, anger.

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The brain will never send the signal to your right foot or anywhere else. It will

also say the slap is an offensive move, not a favor. It has the capacity to pinpoint the

involved part of the body and send relevant messages accordingly.

However, when the part of the brain that controls the right side of the body stops

to function (or what they call a stroke), the patient seldom feels anything. He also loses

control over the affected part of his body. The affected part of his brain lessens or

weakens in its ability to identify stimuli and to influence parts of the body. It stops

sending effective signals to the part of the body it controls.

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CHAPTER 2 WHY COMMAND EMOTIONS?

Do we really need to control or command our emotions? Yes, we command our

emotions so we can become better and more mature persons.

They say emotions should be released. Restraining them may eventually be bad

for our health. This is where we see the difference between control and command. The

first is restraint or suppressed, while the other is released in a constructive manner. At

best, a controlled emotion is partially released, redirected, or delayed. Thus, we see that

commanding an emotion is often better than controlling it. When an emotion, especially a

negative one, is merely partially released, redirected, or delayed, it just takes on other

forms. Its essence remains. However, commanding emotions often bring out the best in

us.

A. RELEASING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

Let us examine the various ways of releasing negative emotions.

1. PARTIALLY RELEASED

When its bearer entertains an emotion, it is useless to release it partially.

To get rid of the emotion, it must be 100 percent in, 100 percent out. This is not to

say, though, that 100 percent out is good for your health. When you allow the

entry of an emotion, the break or opening will allow the same emotion, (or several

others) to enter you again. Always having negative emotions will wreck your

personality terribly. Soon, they may affect your health.

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A partially released negative emotion will create harmful emotional

eruptions inside you (making you a difficult person wherever you are). It could

also find release somewhere else (to another person or family member), extending

the damage further.

2. REDIRECTED

This is another form (and a worse one) of a partially released emotion.

This produces unfairness and injustices to other people who you see have less

power. You may find it easy to take “vengeance” on them.

For instance, your boss has scolded you. Being his subordinate prevents

you from retaliating. When you get home, you may tend to release your anger on

your house helps, children, or spouse.

3. DELAYED RELEASE

This is mostly responsible for a sudden burst of an accumulated emotion

(anger for instance). You may get very angry over a seemingly trivial or

unimportant problem.

For instance, a teacher who cannot vent her anger on her naughty pupils

for the whole day (or days) may become so touchy as to be so fiercely angered by

a mere harmless joke.

Here we see why controlling an emotion damages our health and well-being in the

long run. The appropriate option is to command a right emotion to suit or neutralize a

threatening one.

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B. BREAKING THE NORM – BEING RADICAL

Let’s go back to the slapping attack on your cheek. The usual reaction to pain is to

get hurt or give in to the stimulus. The mind has gotten used to this response. If

unchallenged, it will just give way to the effect that is accepted by the norm. The norm is

what most people expect of you. Thus, when slapped on the face, people expect you to

get angry. Now, if you laugh instead, you break the norm.

There can be a radical change on how you would react to a stimulus. Your brain

can take charge and command your emotions to manifest a positive reaction. Thus,

instead of being angry for being slapped on the face, you can decide to just take

everything in stride. Just forgive the offender, forget everything, and then go on enjoying

life. The saying that, “When slapped on your right cheek, offer the other also,” is

admissible when you take on such a radical attitude. In commanding your emotions, you

don’t restrain them. You release them. The difference is that you take charge in releasing

the RIGHT kind of emotion. This is with the end view of getting the most out of the

situation. This will make you a better person in the end.

Releasing anger (especially full blast) not only damages your health, but also your

well-being. You will have the same result if you restrain the emotion. Anger, released or

retrained, is a major distress in your body. It triggers serious illnesses later. Releasing

negative emotions has not yet been proven to do your health any good. However, altering

your reaction from a negative feedback to a positive one has been proven to release

stress. Doing it sincerely makes everything work for your overall wellness.

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C. COMMANDING PAIN TO GO AWAY

The emotional pain may be neutralized by a radical attitude change, but how

about the physical injury? In the slapping incident we discussed earlier, the physical pain

may be ignored. But what if it’s a full fist blow to your face?

Commanding your emotions is a mere vehicle to another wonderful aspect of real

self-mastery: commanding pain to go away. This, in turn, is just another vehicle to the

ultimate goal of real self-mastery: commanding illnesses to go away.

Warning: The advice of a competent medical professional should always be

sought when you’re experiencing pain or discomfort.

Commanding your emotions is just a means to an end. When you have mastered

this, you are well on your way to commanding pain to scram. You may also choose to

command your body to ignore and eliminate pain.

Are any of the above really possible? Serious athletes achieve a certain measure

of this virtue. They are known to ignore pain and difficulty. They overcome perceived

physical limits. They do it slowly, conquering higher performance levels inch-by-inch. It

is mind-over-matter at work. What the mind imagines, the body makes it happen.

Professional boxers and full-contact martial artists are known to take in severe

punishments. They are taught to endure pain, hang on, and even prevail. The same goes

with those training in the special forces of the police or army. They are taught to endure,

and even ignore, pain. These are examples that prove the mind can command not only

the emotions but also the body.

Strong mind conquers the will. The will and the mind conquer the emotions.

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It can also work vice versa. The strong mind can conquer the emotions. Together,

the mind and the emotions can conquer the will.

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CHAPTER 3 MIND OVER WILL

The soul is the will, mind, and emotions all rolled into one. The will leans closer

to the other two that have more power. If the emotions are more powerful than the mind,

the will easily submits to emotions. If the mind is more powerful, the will submits easily

to it also.

At times, a powerful mind that has subdued the emotions turns on the will as a

last step to victory. You have the practical will to do something once the mind and the

emotions jointly agree on what is right. A powerful emotion that has subdued the mind

has the same effect. Together, you will find that you have the intense emotional will to

pursue something to satisfy a feeling.

The will is the determination to achieve an end. It can be propelled or empowered

by an emotion or a concept. A soldier has the will to defeat the enemy by loving his

country or knowing the benefits of freedom. Though seldom, it can be both. A soldier of

a dictatorship, though he does not know real freedom, will fight to defend the dictatorship

because he loves his country. Some foreign soldiers defend other countries. They may not

love the country they’re fighting for, but they want to maintain democracy and political

stability in it. Sometimes, they may even be forced to rescue a dictator they hate. The will

is in the center of a tug-of-war between the emotion and the mind.

More simply put, a child often faces the choice of eating a candy because he loves

sweets, or not eat it because his doctor said it’s not good for his tonsils. A strong willed

lad, they say, will opt to go by what the mind decides is practical. What they call a weak

willed lad would go by what he loves. He will fulfill immediate wants, even if he knows

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they are bad for him. Actually, both wills are strong. We may classify them as intellectual

will and emotional will.

To be successful in commanding the emotions, the first job of the mind is to win

the full support of the will. This means you must train yourself to be intellectually willed.

When this is achieved, the rest is a piece of cake. Both the will and the emotions will

submit to the mind.

A. WHEN THERE’S A WILL

A will, whether intellectual or emotional, always provides a way. Is it possible to

have no will? The mere fact of having no will is a will in itself. You willed to have no

will. Everybody is given a choice. Choice is the exercise of your will. If you opt to forfeit

your choice, that’s your choice.

Thus, it is foolish to say that there’s no way a certain job could be done, or a

certain problem could be solved. There’s always a way; unless of course, you will to give

up the fight. However, the act of giving up is in itself another way of dealing with the

matter. Chances are, if you give up on something, it is an emotional will. You might

simply feel lazy, so you choose to lose.

It could also be a practical or intellectual one. You might see that a matter is not

that important, and that other more important things need your attention. So you will to

set the matter aside for a while, and attend to other things. Hence, when there’s a will,

there’s always a way.

There’s always a way to release an emotion. You can choose to do it either

intellectually or emotionally. The easier way is the emotional release. However, this does

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not change everything radically and may even result to undesirable outcomes. The

intellectual release is the better way.

Intellectual will

The intellectual will always asks, “How important is it, really?” This will goes

through the thorough examination and weighing of your fussy mind. If important, the will

focuses on its accomplishment. If not important, the will focuses on disregarding it.

When you are overweight and you want to lose weight (because your mind tells you it’s

healthy), the mind imposes strict discipline on the will to eat only healthy foods. By the

strong prodding of your practical mind (and by the cooperation of your will), you easily

reject delicious but unhealthy foods.

When someone hurts you, the mind weighs the situation at once and asks, “How

important is this person to me? Why would I let him ruin my day? Will I be a better

person if I retaliate?” If the person is not important, then you may command your will to

ignore whatever he did. Your mind and will may jointly tell your emotion to remain

unaffected. If the person is important, you may have the same reaction. Your mind might

say, “Anyway, no real harm was done. I’m still alive. I might as well celebrate being

alive.”

Emotional will

This does not ask any question. It only magnifies how you feel. The will

succumbs to how you feel and feeds it. Thus, you eat the unhealthy foods you love

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though you are overweight, because the emotion convinces your will that it’s okay to do

such. Your happiness and satisfaction count the most.

If someone hurts you, your strong emotion would overreact and magnify the thing

done. Then it commands your will to satisfy what your emotion craves for — anger.

Often, the mind do some function here, but only what the emotion and will jointly tell it

to do. Usually, it is left with no other option than to justify the anger. “I hit him because

he said this!” or “I hit him because he hit me first!”

B. EMPOWERING THE MIND TO COMMAND THE WILL

A key to commanding your emotions is to empower the mind so it can control the

will. Empowering the mind does not mean taking up more college courses or a master’s

degree. Even some PhD’s and masters are emotionally willed rather than intellectually.

They easily succumb to the “desires of the flesh” without thinking over their

consequences.

Empowering the mind for commanding emotions is more of training it to subject

the will to its decisions. Try to examine this sentence: “I will never be envious of Ana.”

Note that “I” comes before “will.” This means your mind (the “I”) has authoritatively

decided and concluded that stopping being envious of Ana will do the best thing for “I.”

The “I” commands the “will” never to be envious of Ana.

Now, try to reverse the sequence of the two words “I” and “will”. It will look this

way: “Will I never stop being envious of Ana?” The positive declaration earlier now

becomes a question. With this kind of thought turning into a question, the mind is not

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empowered. Instead, its power and authority over the will is either questioned or

undermined, or both.

Empowering the mind entails training it to assert its prominence and

preponderance over the will. The first phase of the war is a battle between the mind and

the will. When the will is conquered, their joint forces will overpower the emotion.

When the will, mind, and emotions go berserk

What happens when the will, mind, and emotions go separate ways? This results

in a weak-willed character. Take these cases:

1. Have you seen a person who is all talk? Only a few (if any) about what he says

is true in his life. He is a case of a mind that has no command over his will and emotions.

If what you think is not what you truly believe in, you end up being like this man. All you

have is head-knowledge. You are what they call a mere Pretender.

Belief as a mere head-knowledge is a sign of a failed mind. This does not mean a

weak brain or a dull mind. The mind, in this case, may even be intelligent. It may even

know a lot of things and be very smart. It may even earn titles and degrees in school. Yet,

it has terribly failed in conquering the will and emotions. What it knows does not bear

fruit in the will and emotions. In short, what it knows to be the best is not shown in the

life it carries. This mind may know a lot of principles, but is far from being truly

principled. It knows the disciplines, but it has no disciplined life.

2. On the other hand, if you are all emotions but no action, you are what they call

a s a Procrastinator. You depend entirely on your emotions. If it feels good to you, it

must be correct. You never mind if it is not good or correct, what’s important is that you

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feel it. Hence, most procrastinators put off for tomorrow what can be done now. They

already feel good just desiring what must be done or what is correct. They feel there’s

little need of actualizing it in their lives. There is no sense of urgency.

Feeling good about what is correct but showing no action or change due to it is a

sign of a weak mind and will. Emotions can take charge of the body for a while; but

without the cooperation of the mind and the will, nothing done would last long.

Procrastinators may also start what needs to be done immediately, but whether they will

continue doing it the next day is quite another story.

3. The worst kinds are those who feel good about something, start doing it, and

then maintain a semblance of doing it for a long time — without really believing in it. We

will call them Robots. As we know, robots don’t have a mind of their own, and they have

no will of their own. They just follow orders. But robots don’t feel anything either, you

might say.

Our robots here do not have feelings of their own, but only what is fed to them —

public opinion. They go by what is fashionable, by what is the latest fad or trend. When

they see what clicks other people, they join the bandwagon. It doesn’t matter if they are

not really interested about a trend or whether they really believe it is correct. They say,

“If everybody’s doing it (especially the people they look up to), it must be correct. So

let’s go do it!” That’s their motto in life.

A robot character is a sign that the emotions have wrestled power from the mind,

pretty much like a coup de etat. It’s like the emotions have held the mind its prisoner, and

the will its hostage. The reason why it can prolong its activity is that the mind and will

are dragged unwillingly to what it does. The mind is strictly prohibited to stop a while

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and analyze if what is being done is indeed really important. Remember the intellectually

willed? It stops awhile to ask and analyze, “Is this really correct? Is this really important?

Will I die if I don’t do this? Or is this just a non-essential thing masquerading as a truth?”

The intellectually willed unmasks all pretensions and fakes. The robot wears others’

faces.

All of the above — the Pretenders, the Procrastinators, and the Robots —have a

common denominator. The mind is weak so that the will and emotions do not cooperate

with it.

The worst thing is, at times the will even acts independently from the mind and

emotions. It just does things to while time away. Never mind if it is wrong or doesn’t feel

good. Never mind if the public is against it or not. These may be called Zombies. They

live in limbo (neither alive nor dead). Zombies do not have a mind or emotions of their

own. They just walk around looking for something to eat.

You got this book because you want extreme command of your emotions. That

means you don’t want to end up just being a pretender, a procrastinator, a robot, and

much less a zombie. Then you have to empower your mind to rule over your will and

emotions. You must start to become a very principled individual in total control of his

emotions, and later, his body and environment.

All the above depends on how powerful the mind is. How powerful the mind is, in

turn, depends on how well you train it.

Mind training and strengthening

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The outcome of any battle and war largely depends on how well the participants

have trained. Here are some exercises on how you can train your mind well to recruit the

will over to your side and conquer your emotions:

1. GET ENOUGH SLEEP.

Lack of sleep makes the mind weak, especially in discernment and

judgment. What more if you have a bad sleeping habit of staying awake late at

night? Just look at car accidents at night due to sleepy drivers. Their feeling of

being so sleepy overwhelms their minds’ decision to drive safely. Number one

consideration in safe driving is of course staying awake. It is important to have 6

to 8 hours of quality sleep daily to strengthen mind power.

2. GET ENOUGH REST.

Aside from good sleep, the mind ought to get sufficient rest daily. Rest

here means as little stress as possible. Distress is a definite no-no. Meditation is

the best rest the mind can have. Some mind experts assert that having dreams in

sleep means only the body is getting a rest, not the mind.

Thus, meditation is necessary in mind empowerment. The best way to

meditate is to enjoy a serene surrounding early in the morning while breathing

deeply and slowly. As you do this, think of nothing except how the fresh air you

inhale revitalizes your brain, blood, lungs, and eventually, all your body

functions. If possible, meditate in places that afford fresh air like the beach,

parks, or forests.

The best type of rest is to meditate on the Book of Psalms and Proverbs in

the Bible. Equally recommended is to read and meditate on the life of Christ in

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the Gospel. Regardless of your religion, and even if you are an atheist, these

materials afford a meditative literature that enhances mind focus and rest. They

relax your soul (mind, will, and emotions) and give you a better perspective.

3. EAT HEALTHY FOODS.

Eating too much carbohydrate can make you sleepy. Consuming too much

fats and spices can mess up your blood pressure. High blood pressure interferes

with your mind power. Some nutritionists say spices degenerate mental capacity.

On the other hand, if you are afflicted with high blood pressure, emotions

(especially anger) usually gets the better of you. This ailment intensifies your

negative emotions.

4. EXERCISE REGULARLY.

Exercise frequently just enough to give you a sweat. Aerobics is advisable,

but the best is Tai Chi. Tai Chi gives you the needed breathing and exercise that

empowers your mind, but does not exhaust your body. Tai Chi practitioners are

known for having a strong intellectual will power. Some are even said to be able

to control not only their emotions but their bodies as well. A well known Tai Chi

technique is learning to control the body of your opponent.

5. STICK TO YOUR INTELLECTUAL PRIORITIES.

Setting your practical priorities for the day is a good practice only if you

train yourself to abide by them. To strictly adhere to your priorities, you have to

fight off lots of temptations. Your emotions will always try to assert itself once

you start to make your practical mind prevail.

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Try this. List down the things you think you ought to accomplish for a

day. Don’t deal with your wishes (which often feed your emotions), but deal only

with what you see and think is really important. This ought to make your list a

very simple one, and therefore manageable. Scratch out the things you really

don’t need.

Below is a sample of a list to do on a Saturday:

a. Wash clothes – check

b. Throw out the garbage – check

c. Watch final episode of your favorite TV series – scratch

d. Call up a friend – scratch

e. Clean up the attic – check

f. Talk session with your wife and kids – check

g. Finish a good book you’ve been reading – check

h. Attend the class reunion where the delicious dinner is free – scratch

From the list above, you will note that the choices are pretty much a

challenge. It’s hard not to watch the final episode of your favorite TV series, for

example. Moreover, it is tough to ignore the free delicious dinner where you get

to meet old pals. Saturdays are supposed to be rest and fun days. So why sacrifice

and prefer household chores and scratch out all the fun?

The practical mind will agree that the checked items above are important

and the scratched ones are not. It’s a sacrifice to disregard the scratched items, but

they’re not really that important. The important thing is to throw out the garbage

(for hygiene), for instance, and to bond with your spouse and kids.

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However, the emotional part of you will protest. It will say, “Preferring to

read your kids a bedtime story over a swell dinner with long-time-no-see friends

is easier said than done.” They would add, “You can always have a sitter watch

your kids,” and other justifications to give way to your capricious cravings.

You have to train yourself to stick to your priority list. Fight off

temptations. You can be lenient from time to time, or on other days — attend

dinners and watch your favorite soap operas now and then — but try to

accomplish the rigid Saturday priority list more often. Make sure you implement

the list. This will train you to gradually assert your mind over your will. You can

begin with small simple steps.

Try to have two Saturdays off each month from your rigid priorities. Then

next month, have one Saturday off. On the third month, start implementing the

rigid priorities all Saturdays of the month. No more offs.

Another exercise is to cut on the food you eat each meal. For the first one

or two weeks, cut on your carbohydrate intake. On the third week, cut

carbohydrates totally from your supper each night. Then do it each lunch and

supper on the fourth week. On the fifth week, while maintaining zero-

carbohydrates each lunch, eat only fresh vegetables or fresh fruits for supper. You

will find that this exercise slowly reduces your craving for food to rule your will.

It empowers the authority of your mind to command the will, and later the

emotions, to compliance.

Device your own strategies on how to train your mind further to take full

control of your will and emotions. In each strategy, make a practical list of

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priorities or principles that appeal to your mind, not to your emotions. Remember

the intellectually willed question? “Is this really important?” Is it a real need, or

just a desire or whim? Then, implement gradually, becoming more stringent as

you go further.

You can use the same exercise when shopping. Often, when you have the

money or credit card at hand, it’s almost too impossible to be practical in

shopping. Stimuli will bombard you left and right, all reinforced to the maximum

with very tempting advertisements. Once your senses catch the readings (stimuli),

your mind analysis and emotional reaction can go crazy. The emotions often get

the upper hand, and the will and mind just give way. Here is an ideal time to start

training your mind to command your emotions. Decide on your intellectual

priorities, assert them, and stick to them come what may. Command your will to

fall on its knees, and tell your emotions to shut up.

An advisable strategy when shopping is to make a list of the things you

NEED to buy. Make sure there is nothing that merely appeals to emotion. Then,

set out to the mall or grocery with a strong determination to stick to your list.

When you are in the actual shopping place, dozens of promotions and special

discounts will try to lure you in aborting your original plan. Tell yourself — or

anybody with you who is trying to veer you off course — that “we came here for

some definite goals, and that non-priority product is not one of them!”

6. ALWAYS BE ANALYTICAL.

Train yourself to assume an analytical attitude. Daily, you are presented

with various life situations that challenge you to either act or just react. In other

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words, these situations goad you to be intellectually or emotionally willed.

Situations are analyzed by the mind which sends a report to your emotions. Then

everything usually ends with an emotional burst. You just react.

This time reverse the ending. Act rather than react. Analyze everything.

Tell yourself, “Now wait a minute. Before I let this silly thing scare me or make

me angry, I want to make sure it’s really scary or worth being angry about. If it’s

nothing, I don’t want to waste time or energy on it.”

If it turns out to be scary, ask yourself why you need to let it scare you.

Will you just allow it to make you react? Are you just going to let it dictate how

you would feel? Reacting in exactly the way a stimulus “wants” you to only gives

“satisfaction” to it. So why give it what it wants? For sure, there is a better option

available to you: Ignore the stimulus. Act in reverse.

Let’s say in the middle of the night, your burglar alarm sounds off.

Burglar alarms often indicate a burglary. This is often the case, right? It’s either

you go out of your room and check, or you panic and shout for help from your

neighbors. Worse, you grope for a weapon and go after some moving thing

lurking in the shadows and attack. These are all emotionally triggered from start

to finish.

If you choose to be analytical, the moment the alarm sounds, you become

alert, keep calm, stay in your locked room, and do nothing abrupt. You may try to

analyze the situation like this. First of all:

1. Burglar alarms setting off often scare burglars away.

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2. Going after burglars to try to be a hero often creates worse

problems.

3. Unbelievably, letting the burglars escape is the best option for

everyone: you, your family, and the burglars.

Just call the police. Stay in your locked room and command your emotions

to calm down. Burglars are also humans. For all you know, they might even be

more scared than you are.

Another example is a time when you watch a movie or a TV show.

People’s common reaction to what they watch is to go along with the intended

mood of what is being presented. If it is drama, they go along and feel sad. Some

even cry. If it is action, they feel tensed and excited. Some get mad at the bad

characters and sympathize with the good characters. Some even begin to hate the

actors who played the bad roles. The audience merely react according to how the

presenters want such reactions to emanate.

To train your mind not to simply react or go along with emotional

tendencies, intelligently analyze what you watch. Don’t let yourself be too carried

away, but reserve lots of space for intelligent criticism. Detach yourself now and

then to critique everything. Do the actors and actresses perform as their roles

demand? Are the plot and sequences believable? Is that what really happens in

real life? How were the especial effects made possible? Try to imagine how a

scene was shot by imagining that you were there on location shooting.

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These simple exercises strengthen the mind to take the lead on how your

will and emotions should go. Don’t let your emotions lead your mind on the way

it should think. Let your mind lead your emotion on the way it should act or react.

7. PRACTICE BEING LOGICAL.

Many say being logical is the exact opposite of being emotional. Like

analysis, logic is one of the deadly tools of the mind. Logic whips emotions to

obedience, somewhat like the way lion tamers crack the whip to make the beast

sit and behave. When logic tames the emotions, the will acts more firmly. Logic

enforces what the mind wants to accomplish. It gives legitimacy to the mind as a

ruler. It’s like a president of a nation winning an election by a landslide.

Finishing your schooling before marriage is a good goal. The practical

mind will go for it. But just because your mind has as good a goal as finishing

your schooling, doesn’t necessarily mean the emotions will also jump with

excitement — especially when your heart is aching to marry the woman you love.

Logic may add power to your mind. It may argue that a finished education makes

for a more stable career that can make lots of money. All these spell a good

marriage and a good future for the family. You do not negate your emotions by

this; but rather, you put them in their proper perspective. Problems only arise the

moment you deprive yourself of your right to emotions. Commanding emotions

does not mean restraining them, but putting them in their proper places.

8. ACT ON NEEDS, NOT DESIRES.

Always act based on a need, not on a desire. Train yourself to screen your

motives always. Choose only what you need and set aside what you merely

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desire. Your needs need immediate attention. Your desires, well, they can be

ignored for a while. Return to them when you are trained enough to have your

mind as the master of your will and emotions. While in training, never give in to

any desire that detracts you from the more important things in life.

9. NEVER GIVE UP ON ANYTHING JUST BECAUSE IT’S HARD.

When something is difficult to do, the “flesh” or the emotion is likely to

find other easier things to do it. Nothing is bad about looking for an easier way to

do a difficult thing. What is unacceptable is the attitude of giving up on something

just because it is hard to do.

The emotions often do well when commanded by the mind. You can be

very excited to do a very practical thing, and this is good. But when the emotions

are independent of the mind, they usually opt for what is convenient. Convenience

is not always the best for us. Many good things entail long and hard work to

accomplish. Most non-essentials are very easy (and very tempting) to do. They

often offer a better alternative. They appeal to the emotions. Rather than read a

book that boosts the intellect or the soul, the emotions often find gossiping,

watching TV, reading books on romance, slandering, or reading about famous

people easier to do.

The next time you find something hard to do, DO IT! Find a simpler way

to do it or do it the hard way, it doesn’t matter — just do it!

10. STARVE YOUR EMOTIONS A LITTLE.

Emotions are needed, but we need to tame them to submit to our minds.

To make your emotions submit, you must have them a bit weaker than your mind.

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Thus, feed your mind with practicality feasts, and sometimes starve your

emotions.

If you’re given a choice between seeing a movie or cleaning the whole

house, go for the latter. If you love roasted turkey or beefsteak, and you’re given a

choice between these or bland vegetables, then settle for the latter. Do this often.

Cut down on the number of times you give way to what you love doing, and stress

more on what you think ought to be done.

11. LEARN TO LOVE WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE

Doing what you don’t like is the worst scenario to have in life. Besides, it

is bad for your health. Even if you do what you think is practical, if you don’t

love it, you fail nonetheless. It only means that your mind has only conquered the

will, but not the emotions. The emotions remain unconquered and rebellious, just

waiting for the right time to re-assert itself back to the throne. The result will be a

life full of sacrifices - forcing yourself on something you don’t like to do. This is

typical of the convinced overweight who decided on a rigid diet of everything he

hated to eat. It went on for a while. Soon he gave up. His love for unhealthy foods

is just too much to overcome.

The proper way is to train the mind, not just to defeat the emotions; but

also to make them submit, so that it commands the emotions. Without this, the

mind’s victory will just be temporary. The mind must be able to “teach” the

emotions to love what is needful. After sessions of the exercises listed in this

book (plus several more from your self-devised strategies), you gradually subdue

your emotions, “mold” them, feed them with what is practical and correct, until

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your emotions begin to really “love” to do what your mind commands them to.

Soon, you would be surprised to see that your emotions have been so accustomed

to the assertions of your mind that they would even begin to “hate” to do things

that merely cater to vain desires.

12. PSYCHOANALYZE YOURSELF.

Your senses pick up stimuli 24 hours a day. The brain receives and

analyzes them. Then they are sent to various internal organs, body systems, or

parts. Each time a stimulus comes along, always imagine the process. Then don’t

let the process end with the emotions giving a reaction. Help your brain assert

itself. When the message is sent to a body part, follow up with another message

from the brain. This time, make it a message of command — the command to

positive action, not just reaction.

Let’s say, someone insults you in public and says you’re an idiot. In a

quick moment, the brain has sent the message across that says, “Humiliation!”

The body feels it, and gets terribly hurt. But before it can decide on a reaction,

don’t let your mind passively “watch” your emotion control your body. Tell

yourself, “Oh, come on! This is nothing! It’s nothing like a lethal gunshot wound

or something that spurts your blood all over the place. You won’t die of this. And

you can’t let your silly ego or emotional will triumph over your mind.” Moreover,

show yourself as someone who is more civilized than the jerk who said you’re an

idiot. Let him humiliate himself to everybody looking that he is the idiot, not you.

Instead of the usual bursting of emotions and the cursing from your

mouth, command yourself not to react. Is it true that you’re an idiot? Of course

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not. Then why get angry if it’s not true. Even if it’s true, tell yourself that truths

only set you free. Mentally give thanks for being set free.

Intercept your emotions with a mental command, and let it conclude

everything in a positive act. When you keep this going, you empower your mind

to control your will and tame your emotions.

“But what about the humiliation?” your hurt emotion will insist. If it’s not

true that you’re an idiot, why feel humiliated? Even if it’s true, why feel

humiliated? So what if people overheard? The whole truth is that it’s more

humiliating to humiliate somebody in public. Just keep quiet and let negative

public opinion bury the offender slowly in the grave of public disgust. Public

opinion always sides with the offended party.

The good news is, when you can always easily pull out of a scenario like

the one above — rationalizing offenses against you and responding positively —

you have mastered your emotions and are ready to go to the next higher level:

having extreme command of your whole body, not just emotions. Do you know

you can command your body not to get sick? We shall discuss a bit about this and

other possibilities later.

C. THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE MIND

A last word on mind empowerment must deal about the yet unexplored potentials

of the mind that are waiting to be discovered. The head was not put on top of the body for

nothing. The eyes, ears, nose, and tongue (EENT) were not placed on the head for

nothing. The mind serves something like a monitor, radar, processor, and controller for

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the whole body. Have you noticed how other parts of the body (like the hands, legs, and

feet) cannot move in full swing without first getting a clearance from the mind? The mind

cannot give clearance unless the EENT give it facts and data. The command module, as it

were, comes from the head.

From the above observations, we can venture to imagine that the mind was

originally designed to dominate and control all other body functions.

From what man has discovered so far, we know that the mind controls the bone

and muscle movements. What we also know so far is that there are other body parts like

glands and organs that act “voluntarily.” This means nothing in the body, not even the

brain, can force them to function as they do. They cannot be controlled. That’s what we

know so far.

But some people think that the above thinking is not the last word on brain power

and functions of the body. Some believe that what we know so far about the brain is a

mere fraction of what it actually is and could actually do. If you are amazed at what

modern super computers can do, you must be more amazed by the brains that made them.

If you think that there’s no end to what computers could do, and that someday, as PCs

keep improving by the day, they would do more totally unbelievable things (even control

the world?), think of what the brain can accomplish some day.

We’re talking not only of the mind controlling the body and commanding

sickness to cease from attacking it, but also perhaps even controlling the environment, the

atmosphere, and who knows, even other worlds out there. If you believe that computers

can do anything in the future, then won’t you also believe in the unlimited potential of the

mind that created them?

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To believe in the higher potentials of the brain is not only to nod mentally in

agreement to it. It must be implemented daily through rigid progressive training to

empower the mind. The journey has to begin in small steps. If you cannot command your

emotions to obedience, you cannot go on targeting higher extraordinary aims.

If you make emotions surrender unconditionally, you make them allies of the

mind. Nevertheless, do not underestimate the strength of the emotions. At times they can

be so tremendous they can make everything and everybody bow down. Emotions are

often so canny that they have the power to deceive without being noticed. They can even

take on the guise of being truth and urgent. Hence, the mind must be extra sharp. This

calls for nothing less than utter seriousness.

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CHAPTER 4 BENEFITS OF AN AUTHORITATIVE MIND

The authoritative mind is NOT an arrogant, self-important mind that swells in

pride and orders people around as though they were its slaves. An authoritative mind is a

practical person’s mind that holds a reign on emotions and will. Later, the authority of

such a mind may also intensify to command even things outside its traditional sphere of

influence.

A. ON COMMANDING YOUR ENTIRE BODY

When you have mastered commanding your emotions, you can go try the next

level of commanding your body, even your internal organs. Admittedly, this is a long

shot from happening to everyone who tries. The secret, however, is persistence. Don’t let

the faith in your mind power buckle down. If at first, or even after hundreds of tries you

don’t succeed, keep trying.

As it is, the mind already commands several of your body functions. Walking,

running, talking, eating, and other activities are done through the command of your mind.

You can even make your breathing stop for a few seconds because your mind can

command your nose to stop taking in air. It is a simple matter of extending the

jurisdiction of the authority of your mind to other parts of your body and organs. Do this

slowly. You can conquer small territories, one after the other.

Of course, we are trying to do this for a benefit. Don’t try to control your heart so

that it stops beating. Don’t try to tell your lungs to cease functioning. This is pure

nonsense, and this book counsels strongly against these.

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The exercise of mind power over your entire body is geared towards overall

betterment. Let us cite several examples:

1. Commanding pain and sickness to go away.

2. Commanding skin wrinkles to cease from emerging.

3. Commanding your face to look youthful for a long time.

Now, don’t create the impression that you can command your body to achieve

immortality. Life has to end someday. Without this ending, life would lose its artistry,

mystery, meaning, and drama.

Total command of the emotions and the whole body is aimed at getting a better, if

not a second chance at, life. It’s a pity to have a short life. It is also a tragedy to live a

long life full of woes and pains. We often relegate or leave the outcome of our lives to

fate. We think that we have no power over what happens to us and our bodies. We think

that the destiny just likes to play with us.

Some people, on the other hand, think that what happens to their lives depends on

some external factors. They think the sun, moon, and stars control their lives. Some think

that certain objects have the power to drive their lives. These things are mere stimuli.

They only have power over us if we let them. If we refuse, they cannot do anything to us.

If we give them power over us, it doesn’t mean they really have power. The power they

have comes from us. So it is we who really have the power.

Everything that happens to us originates and ends in us. A popular Hebraic belief

in the Bible says that everything that happens to us — good or bad — is of our own

doing. It is a cause and effect process that God himself has ordained and sustained. It is

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like the government that creates the laws. If you break a law, you suffer. Law does not

make you suffer. It is what you do against it that causes suffering.

The law of gravity will never hurt anyone. Now, if you try to jump from the tenth

floor, you hurt yourself. If a plane crashes because of a mechanical failure, gas leak, or

human negligence, you don’t sue the earth. You sue the airline company.

A father gave his son a bird. The son was afraid to receive it. The father asked

why. “It might fly away,” came the reply of the lad. “No, it will not,” assured the father.

So the boy held the bird. Days later the bird was gone. The father asked why. “It flew

away,” said the boy. “No,” the father stressed, “you let it fly away.”

The outcome of life really depends on you. To be more specific, it depends on

what is in you. If you let something have dominion over you, they will. But if you choose

to have dominion over things, you will. You’re designed to have that authority.

Let’s go back to the mental control of your body. If you can command your legs

and feet to run, can you not try a little further and tell it to run faster?

Of course, you can.

Now, let’s go a bit further. Why not tell your legs and feet to take longer strides as

they run faster.

Of course, you can. Your limbs will readily obey.

Now, make a quantum leap. Practice telling your legs to increase in length,

muscle size, or grow more hair. Couple this with correct exercise and diet. Keep

practicing. Practice makes perfect. But be sure to believe in what you are doing. If you

just try a little to see what happens, chances are, nothing will. Then you’ll soon give up

and feel stupid about it.

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The best part is when you are able to command your heart or lungs to function

better if you have a heart or lung ailment. You can even command your blood pressure to

normalize.

We have to realize that these mental commands need the full support of the

emotions and the will. If the mind alone does it but you feel funny about it, it will never

work. If you have the mind and feel good about it too, but you do not have the will to eat

right and exercise right, nothing will happen. It’s not enough to “feel good” about a

mental command. It’s just a puppy emotion, as in “puppy love.” Your mind must fully

believe it, and your emotions must fully back it up. No shadow of a doubt, whatsoever. It

needs patient training and faith. You must combine the powers of the mind, will, and

emotions in order to achieve great feats. Practice smaller tasks before you try to

command your whole body.

A good way to start is to command your aches to go away. When your head or

back aches, practice commanding them before you take any medicine. After several

serious tries and the pain still stays, then you may try your prescribed medicine. Next

time, do it again.

If you feel dizzy, command it to go away. Don’t give up easily. Take another

alternative, like prescribed medicines, after you have given the mental power several

chances.

Research indicates that some medicines are mere placebo drugs or salt pills. They

cure nothing. They are just given to patients to make them think that they are being cured

by medicine. Some patients actually feel better after taking these useless though harmless

pills.

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Note: Harnessing your mental powers is not a substitute for medical treatment.

Have regular check ups from your physicians. Do not use mental powers as a license to

an abusive lifestyle that endangers your health.

B. ON COMMANDING THINGS AROUND YOU

This concept of commanding things around you should not come as a surprise.

We have been commanding our pet dogs, cats, birds, horses, and even dolphins to

obedience. Many believe they could actually talk to plants and tell them to grow better.

There are electronic systems that can tell lighting systems to function by just talking to

them. There are computers today that function by obeying voice commands. If you

realize these things and contemplate on them, you will see that, indeed, the human mind

probably has other potentials still waiting to be discovered.

Records indicate the story of a powerful man who lived in Israel at the time of

King Herod and Pontius Pilate. This man, a mere carpenter who hardly had any formal

schooling, controlled his environment to extremes. He commanded a fig tree to die on the

spot. He commanded every sickness to go away. He even commanded the sea and the

wind to calm down. He commanded an earthquake to be still. Several times he

commanded the dead to live again. He once said that according to what a man thinks and

believes, it will happen to him.

If we are going to believe this Israelite, everything that happens in us, to us, and

around us can be commanded to obedience by our minds. Hence, it is not true that stimuli

can have any effect or control over us and our lives. On the other hand, we can affect

them if we want to — and if we aim to.

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By what we have so far achieved in Science — getting things electronically

triggered by voice commands — are we not on the path to commanding everything, even

nature, by the power of our minds?

Consider this: Our internal system has electrons that move inside our bodies so

that we produce certain amounts of electricity. Cardiologists can measure this electricity

in us through some tests. What if we learn some process or technique by which we can

harness and develop this electrical charge in us and put it to use at our will? By the

command of our minds, we could perhaps throw an electric charge by just pointing a

finger at a weather disturbance or tornado and affect it in a certain way. This sounds far

fetched now, but so would the idea of a digital calculator be at the time when they were

still figuring out the airplane of the Wright brothers.

We have seen through history how new discoveries and inventions never end as

time passes. Almost everything is being made possible. Things thought impossible

decades ago are now everyday realities. These have all been possible through imaginative

and resourceful minds that challenge commonly held views and never settle with what is

the usual way. These minds have always been open to possibilities and have much

potential. A mind that is supreme over the emotions and the will has countless known

benefits. For sure, the potentials yet forthcoming will likewise yield better benefits.

Our perceptions tend to either limit or help us. A perception that tends to limit us

is most likely affected by the emotions. A restrained perception is hindered mostly by

fear. Fear keeps us wary of what may happen.

A clear perception makes assessments of a situation. This assessment is not to see

if we would continue with our venture or not. The assessment is to know what step or

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direction is more practical and safer for us. Then we can take the plunge. Strong mental

power and will always take the plunge. They never back down. Once the mind has

conquered the will and emotions, the plunge is always done with a very strong

determination, and with all joy and excitement. Even if the first plunge fails, more

attempts will be done with the same persistence and gusto. This is the mark of a strong

mind that conquers.

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CHAPTER 5 THE POWER OF ANCHORS

Imagine having the power to do a very simple act and you'll instantly be able to

change your mood, emotion, or even energy level. Sounds exciting, isn’t it?

With this power, you can even influence other people without them being

consciously aware of it. This is probably the most powerful technique to help you change

your emotions and the feelings of other people around you.

This method is being used by persuaders to get anything they want through their

own actions or by subconsciously commanding others.

First, let me present a scenario to you.

Let’s say you went to watch a sad movie. While you’re so engrossed with one of

the most dramatic scenes, sad background music was being played.

A few weeks later, you hear a friend sing the same sad song you heard from that

movie. In a brief moment, you’re shifted back to the experience. You suddenly remember

that particular dramatic scene, the actors who tore your heart out, and even your friends

who went to that movie with you.

You feel the sensation all over again. You recollect the sentimental mood because

of that same music.

That sad music is called an anchor.

What is an anchor? An anchor is a compelling and influential connection of

something seen, heard, touched, smelled, or tasted with a specific memory or

representation.

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You associate an emotion experienced in the past with a state correlating to the

present.

A. HOW TO USE AN ANCHOR

Let’s say you want to experience happiness.

Go to a quiet room. Reflect on a time when you had a very happy experience. It

can be a joke so funny it brought tears to your eyes. It can be an experience when you ran

out of breath because of too much laughter.

Now focus in reliving that funny experience. Engage yourself thoroughly on that

fantastic feeling. See the joker’s funny face, hear the humorous antics, taste the food

you’re eating at that time, smell the odor, and feel everything else going on around you as

you’re laughing your heart out.

Then create an anchor. You can slightly slap your face, shake your hands in

exhilaration, squeeze your thumb and middle finger together, twirl your head, or just do

anything you can think of, as long as it's something that creates intensity within you.

After around a minute or two, let go of the anchor while still engrossed in that

state. Wait for a few seconds before breaking out of that state.

The more passionate or lively the experience, the better anchor you will create.

You can use any of the anchors below depending on your situation and

preference. You may even invent one or two of your own.

1. Clench your fists.

2. Stroke your hair, chin, nose, or eyebrow.

3. Press two fingers together.

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4. Whistle a tune.

5. Rub your hands.

6. Shake your legs.

7. Shout a lively word, such as “power,” “domination,” or “super!”

8. Pat yourself at the back.

In case you’re still a little tied up, here’s another case.

Let’s say you want to finish a very important project, but you’re too tired and

bored of doing it. Here’s how you can conquer your negative emotions.

Go to a quiet room. Recall a time when you feel so passionate or enthusiastic

about a certain endeavor. It can be a time when you’ve persistently studied hard to ace

the Board Exams. It can be a time when you’re assigned an exciting project that you did

with so much energy and commitment. Remember to relive the emotions you’ve felt with

intensity. Really feel it.

Then create an anchor using any one of the anchors listed above. You can create

one of your own that you think will be most effective. Be imaginative.

After around a minute or two, let go of the anchor while still engrossed in that

state. Wait for a few seconds before breaking out of that state. Remember, the more

intense or concentrated the emotions are while you’re recalling the experience and

employing the anchor, the better the outcome.

B. HOW TO USE ANCHORS ON OTHER PEOPLE

Let’s say you want to ask a big favor from a co-worker.

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Wait for a time when you can do something special or unforgettable for him. Give

him an awesome gift during a special occasion, volunteer to do some of his tasks, or do

anything you can’t think of that will make him trust you and feel grateful.

Then rub his shoulders when he’s so happy thanking you for your thoughtfulness.

When the time comes that you want to ask help from him, rub his shoulders. His

appreciative feelings will return and you will have a much easier time asking him for any

favor.

You may succeed the first time you apply an anchor, or you may not. Some

people succeed during the second, fifth, or even the twentieth time. The important thing

to do is practice. Don’t give up when the first few attempts have failed. With sheer

determination, you can do it!

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CHAPTER 6 TRUE STORIES OF PEOPLE COMMANDING EMOTIONS

Here are true-to-life examples that show the mind (if strong and trained to prevail)

can teach and command the emotions and will. They can ignore a stimulus that incites a

negative reaction. Instead, a positive action can be produced to take over an otherwise

chaotic situation.

1. One of the greatest leaders ever known, Jesus Christ introduced the

concept of loving the enemy, turning the other cheek when slapped on the

face, carrying the baggage for 2 miles when your foe tells you to carry it

for a mile, and praying for those who insult you, among other positive

actions against offensive stimuli. He and his true disciples have been

known to turn the world upside down. Jesus is known to have taught that

the spirit should make the flesh obey.

2. Mahatma Gandhi, a guru and spiritual leader of India when the British still

ruled over it, was known never to have reacted negatively to any issue. He

started the non-violent campaign of civil disobedience or non-participation

in an unjust government administration. Instead of getting angry and

getting even, he introduced “fasting” or abstinence from eating any food.

People who can fast for days like Gandhi can command bodily urges to

submit to the mind. This is the Hindu practice of self-denial.

3. Dr. Jose Rizal, an Asian hero in the First World War, was a staunch

believer of acting positively in the face of terrible and violent opposition.

Some revolutionary leaders in the Philippines tried several times to

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persuade him to join them, but he turned them down. He believed that the

atrocities of the Spanish invaders could be countered by showing the

world that his fellow citizens were civilized and educated. He negated the

furious feelings of a warrior and opted to develop the mind instead. He

also overcame his fear of death by having a mindset that dying for the

country was supreme.

4. Martin Luther King was an African-American hero who was a staunch

defender of the rights of black people in America. It was in the time when

certain racists violently persecuted the blacks in America. Instead of

getting angry and turning violent, he fought for equal rights by speaking

his mind peacefully.

5. Josef Stalin, Russian leader in the Second World War, thwarted Hitler’s

invasion of Russia. When the Nazi “Blitzkrieg” army of Hitler was fast

approaching the Russian border, there was pressure on Stalin to make a

counter offense to save Russia. However, Stalin thought otherwise. Instead

of meeting the violent German troops head-on, he had the courage of mind

and the will to resist the temptation (or the emotion) to counter-attack.

Instead, he withdrew his troops and took with them all food and fuel

supplies. It was winter. When the German army penetrated the Siberian

plain, they found nobody and nothing. They withdrew before they all died

slowly of hunger and the freezing cold. Most communists are known to

hold the intellect as supreme over the emotions. Many of them can

command the emotions to submission through years of hard training and

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indoctrination. Enemies of communism call this “brainwashing.”

Brainwashing means bringing the brain to a completely new orientation,

reinforcing it, and then letting it command the will and emotions. Whole

nations and generations were subjected to this. This is pointed out not as a

model, but to show the possibility of the mind commanding the emotions.

Some people succeed in putting the intellect above the emotions, though

cruelly. This book does not endorse such cruel and inhumane methods, but

presents a better and enjoyable alternative. This book puts forward a

positive way of empowering the mind, and positive reasons for doing it.

6. A school administrator was faced with a difficult parent. This parent, a

radio reporter, publicly threatened to sue and expose the school for alleged

unfairness in one of its graduation rites. A smearing campaign followed

against the school. The administrator, however, invited the parent to pour

out her woes and complaints. After paying sincere attention, the

administrator apologized for the things they had “overlooked.” He assured

the parent that a second look would be given to the matter. Where needed,

redress would be done to lessen the damage. The administrator also gently

pointed out the criteria for selecting awardees in the graduation. The

parent came out of the office relieved. The administrator saved face for the

school.

7. A church leader was trying to bring significant changes to his church in

crisis. The elders opposed him violently by accusing him falsely. While

the accusations were baseless and immaterial, the leader chose to keep

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mum and even apologized for whatever the elders deemed were his faults.

A year after, the elders confessed of being impressed at how he chose to

keep silent even if he was in the right side. The elders lost lots of good

sleep and rest. The church leader enjoyed great joy and peace of mind.

8. A counselee complained of too much pressure from peers who tried to

make her look bad in the office. They provoked her by setting her up in

situations that triggered her ire. The counselor explained that the more she

got angry, the more her peers felt victorious. Her anger only fed their

want. The counselor told her the solution was to act positively and ignore

them. The advice worked wonders. Her peers were the ones who reacted

when they saw that nothing they did affected the counselee any longer.

The counselee definitely looked more in control of herself, more

confident, and happier.

9. In the late 1970s, arson bombings in movie theaters were rampant in a

metropolis. Scores of people died in the fire and stampede. One afternoon,

a theater was jam packed with people watching “The Empire Strikes

Back.” Suddenly, a bomb exploded near the exit of the cinema. Roy, a

college student, was among the audience. It was too dark to see anything

in the theater. He heard the seats abruptly fold up and the people

beginning a stampede to the exit. He had the urge to join them also, but he

decided to take command, not only of his fear, but also of other people’s

fear. With a determined will, he commanded the people with a very

authoritative voice not to panic, but to fall in line and go out the exit

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calmly. To his surprise, the people became silent and moved calmly to

form lines toward the exit until everybody was out safely. He himself

joined the line. Nobody knew that a mere 18-year old took charge of the

situation and saved them all.

10. Another school was in danger of foreclosure due to non-compliance with a

government ruling. The school sent a messenger to answer serious

inquiries of some officials of the Education department. The messenger

was bombarded with a series of tirade for the legal offense of the school.

Instead of answering the accusations point-by-point — and probably

worsen the emotions — the messenger chose to listen and accept all

reprimand in silence. His emotions told him to answer back and justify the

school, but his mind told him the scolding was just apt and proper for a

delinquent like his school. He apologized for the school’s negligence and

begged the officials to give them more time to produce the needed

requirements. The officials saw the meekness and sincerity of the

messenger. They not only pardoned the school but also offered help to

expedite the compliance.

11. A 12-year old boy woke up in the middle of the night to find that someone

was trying to pull the blanket over his face and body. He dared not look

over to see who it was. He knew he was alone in his room. He

remembered a story about his grandmother who had died recently. She

was said to do a practical joke on sleeping people by pulling the blanket

over them. The boy’s first reaction was to scream to get attention. Then he

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tried to be rational about it all. He asked himself, “If it was a ghost, there’s

no sense getting scared because ghosts can’t hurt people physically. If it

was a person, there’s also no sense getting scared. Obviously, this guy is

just trying to scare me. If he means harm, he wouldn’t just be pulling my

blanket. So either ways, what real harm can happen to me?” Therefore, he

told himself there’s no reason to fear or get alarmed. He commanded

himself to go to sleep. With all will power, he fell asleep eventually.

12. A couple was strolling in a mall. The bargain prices were so tempting that

they started to consider buying several items. However, they had brought

money only to buy lunch. They thought about skipping lunch and using

the money on things that they had not planned to buy. However, the man

took hold of himself and remarked, “Look, honey, we really don’t need

these things. Probably next time, but not now. We came here to eat.” The

wife protested. “But they don’t offer discounted prices everyday, you

know. This is a good timing.” The husband countered by saying,

“Remember, we’re trying to keep a budget. Go ahead and look at all the

items all you want. We can do that. But we’re not buying anything

because we don’t really need them right now.” In short, their minds finally

won over their feelings. They mustered enough will and strength to walk

out the mall with their budget intact. When they were out of the mall, they

thanked themselves for having extreme command of their emotions and

will. The moral lesson: When you manage to get out of it all before your

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emotions win, a fresh wind blows on your mind and puts everything in its

right place. You get a right perspective again.

13. A married man discovered that his pretty officemate had been taking a

fancy on him. She gave him obvious lustful encouragements and he was

about to surrender to her actions. His sexual urges, driven by his licentious

emotions, told him to go for it. Then he remembered his wife and kids,

and the solemn vows of faithfulness they gave each other. His mind

reminded him of what was correct, but his emotions told him what he

desired. The emotions told his mind “no one would know about it if the

desire was carried out.” However, his mind insisted on what was right. It

commanded the emotions to bring out the feelings he had for his wife,

rather than the wrong urge for the other woman. When the emotions gave

in to correct reason, the will followed suit. The lustful stimulus did not

meet interest anymore from the man. Instead, the man felt shame and

reproach each time the stimulus presented itself again.

14. Carlo was an average student. His friend Arthur was an excellent student.

Their families, friends, and relatives always compared them. Carlo

suffered a lot because he secretly envied his friend. After college, Carlo

turned out an ordinary employee. Arthur became director of a legal

department. This time, Carlo was too tired of being envious that he

couldn’t take any more load of it. Besides, it didn’t do any good either.

Therefore, he faced himself in the mirror and told himself: “You cannot be

Arthur. You are made out to be Carlo. You have a different calling in life.

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You have been looking too long at how Arthur has been succeeding, that

you miss to see the hidden potentials in Carlo. You are unique, and

therefore you cannot compare yourself with another. Discover your own

potentials and uniqueness, hone them to perfection, and start loving your

being Carlo.” That moment on, when Carlo learned to surrender his

feelings to what his mind thought was right, he kept excelling in the things

he loved to do.

15. A jealous young man had been having problems with his popular and

pretty girlfriend. She made every head turn, especially heads of young and

handsome men. Hence, he and his girlfriend often had quarrels. Then one

day, he decided all his jealousy should stop. He finally had the mind to

say, “So what if she doesn’t love me anymore? It’s either I accept this or

make a fool of myself all my life!” He exercised his practical will over his

emotions repeatedly. After experiencing painstaking battles between his

mind and emotions, the mind finally took command. Since then, he found

he could even watch his girlfriend ride alone in a car with other men, and

feel nothing negative. He discovered he could love somebody and enjoy a

newfound peace.

16. Charlie was deeply wronged by his friend, Arnold. It was a matter of

principle. Charlie was badly humiliated before people because of the

incident. He decided not to see Arnold for months. Then one morning,

Arnold called him up to ask for a favor. Charlie could have opted to turn

Arnold down. But very quickly, Charlie commanded his emotions to step

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aside and give way to his mind’s firm decision to forgive. At the very

moment he was talking with Arnold, and as he was asking the favor,

Charlie decided right there and then to forgive all of his friend’s former

offenses against him. He granted the favor Arnold asked him. The

relationship was restored.

These 16 examples are only among so many true-to-life instances of how the

mind was challenged. It actually won over seemingly insurmountable situations. On such

short notice, the will and emotions gave in to the mind. These things can and will happen

to you, if you choose to.

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BONUS DOCUMENTARY THE CASE OF NEO-SPIRITUALISM

Worldwide, there is an emerging move from diverse groups to carry out

spiritualism to the extreme. Some observers call them neo-spiritualists who tend to “super

spiritualize” life. Most of them claim to have extreme command not only of their

emotions but practically anything.

We have been tackling the subject of a mind that commands from the viewpoints

of Psychology and Behavioral Science. We have also considered the rigid discipline and

practices of persons who gain certain amounts of mental control over their will and

emotions. Now, we venture to the bizarre world of neo-spiritualism: having extreme

command of anything through super spiritualism.

There are different neo-spiritualist persuasions today that hold differing views.

Let us consider the most radical view that claims the ability to command things and

situations.

A. DEIST AND THEIST SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

Neo-spiritualists of the Deist persuasion believe in a God that created the world

but has become too overwhelmed to control his creations. In a sense, he has relegated

control to certain laws that now govern life, such as the laws of nature. Actually, these

neo-spiritualists say that people who relinquish control of some aspects of life to certain

laws of nature are really neo-spiritualists in the deist persuasion. For instance, if you

believe that voluntary muscles cannot be controlled by the mind, then you are a neo-

spiritualist in the deist order. Deists are also spiritual. However, they insist that if God

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could not control all of creation, neither could they. If God put his trust in some laws to

govern parts of creation outside his reach, then they ought to simply trust also these laws

and leave it at that.

The theists are different.

Theist Neo-Spiritualism started in the mid 1970s, though scattered traces of it

were apparent as early as the 18th century. Super spiritual feats were seen in this century

mostly in Europe and America. But since the 20th century to the present, the movement

has been strong in Asia and most Third World countries. These spiritualists believe that

God has tremendous powers to control everything in the universe. In fact, they believe

that God has lots of excess powers that he wants to share with anyone who is ready to

have his very own mindset. These neo-spiritualists believe everything in life depends on a

mindset. Success or failure is all the result of a mindset.

They believe that God gave them the ability to be like him in life and power. They

also claim the power to command, and that this power resides in the God “inspired”

mental prowess of a person. The basic principle is that, “What the mind can see, can and

will happen.” In a more profound statement, they assert that, “According to your faith, it

will be done to you.”

The theists do not just study about mind rule. They try their best to live it

everyday. Basically, they say that a mind that rules and conquers is a mind that works

like God’s mind. Below is a summary of their principles in adopting God’s mindset:

1. SEE IT.

Theists insist that God creates what he first sees with his mind. Thus, they

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say that if you cannot see it with your mind, you cannot make it happen. Neo-

spiritual theists train their minds to think of spiritual things. Spiritual things are

anything that the human mind thinks is impossible. For instance, the human mind

is used to thinking of traveling by plane if he wants to be on the other side of the

world. Thinking spiritually, to theists, means to just think and believe that you

will suddenly be on the other side of the world right this moment. Without riding

anything tangible, the theists believe they could really suddenly appear on the

opposite part of the earth. They call this translation. They allege that actual

translations have been happening to them by just using the mind of God. It’s all

up to you if you want to believe this or not.

2. BELIEVE IT.

Theists stress that even God has faith in who he is and what he can do.

They also try to adopt this principle and believe in their God and in themselves.

Believing, to the theist, is not just head knowledge that stays as mere knowledge

or imagination. It is a belief that materializes before your very eyes. The theists

say “believing” means really believing with your mind and heart, without any

doubt, that what you want to happen will happen. They train so hard to have their

mind adapt to this kind of mindset. In a nutshell, they maintain that it is the ability

of the mind to command the heart (will and emotions) to see nothing except what

the mind (of God) sees.

3. DO IT.

Theists are actual doers of what they believe with their minds and hearts.

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If at first they don’t succeed, they do it again and again. They never mind if they

keep on failing. The principle is just to do it until it’s done. They reveal that

though they live in a physical world, spiritual principles override physical laws

even in this material world.

Theists actually testify to having been able to order sicknesses out of

people’s bodies. They say they can command disabilities like paralysis,

amputation, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, and even the worst of cancers to leave human

bodies. They claim to have commanded the dead to live again — on the spot.

Actually, several books have been written to chronicle these claims which are all

supported by eyewitness (and sometimes even medical) accounts.

B. POWER OVER PEOPLE

Theists claim to be able to “see” the past, present, and future of people through

the discernment and piercing mental perception that God gives them. They are said to

have also decided beforehand the fate of certain people through the power of “God’s

voice” in their mouths. By merely declaring or announcing, they can appoint the lives of

people to certain destinies. They can declare a person, for instance, to be free from all

debts come a certain point in time. They may also announce that a person would

encounter sure tragedy on a particular date. Most of such predictions are said to have

come true in exactly the way they were foretold.

C. COMMANDING NATURE

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Neo-spiritual theists assert that they can command trees to either bear fruit or die

instantly, affect sea waves and gusty winds by a mere command, order a whole mountain

to be thrown into the sea, or tell the sun to stop rotating for a moment. They point to a

sacred book they keep — a kind of Neo-Spiritualism Bible. They claim this book holds

ancient records of their predecessors’ success stories on how the sun was really made to

stop moving, among other supernatural miracles.

D. WHERE ARE NEO-SPIRITUALISTS TODAY?

Theist and deist neo-spiritualists are active in the world today, sometimes working

together, and sometimes competing with each other for world dominance. Some of the

known religions of the world form part of deist neo-spiritualism. They have the form of

spirituality but lack any real power. The spirituality they possess is mostly ritualistic.

Theistic neo-spiritualists are mostly unpopular and thinly spread across the globe.

Some theists are fast becoming reactionary and gradually joining the deists. The real and

radical theistic neo-spiritualists are mostly disdained by all the others because of their

controversial stand on extreme spiritualism. Even so-called cultic religions tend to stay

away from the extreme theists.

E. CAN THE INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL MERGE?

The traditional view to whether the intellectual and spiritual could combine is a

resounding “NO!” if not “Impossible!” Yet, there are sectors today that assume a new

type of openness and initiate talks on the possibility of a mind and spirit unity to affect

and empower the will to action. If this could be done, the possibilities would be immense.

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This book discussed earlier that actions and reactions emanate from an interaction

of the mind, will, and emotions. However, a very recent trend of the brain storming eerie

possibilities is the introduction of the spirit as an ally of the mind, not just to command

body parts, but also to create from virtually nothing. This exchange of ideas may actually

result in the unheard of initiative to seat Science and Spiritualism in the same room and

actually talk about a joint project. Science and Religion have tried to work certain things

out in the past but have failed more than once miserably. However, a recent definition of

terms has unveiled that religion is really a weakened and adulterated spiritualism born out

of a failed attempt to combine reason and belief in the genuinely spiritual. In short, they

found religion has no real power.

A revived interest in empowering man’s intellectual and spiritual potentials in

extreme degrees has ruled out religion in favor of going directly to pure and genuine

spiritualism to be partnered with Science. This is an interesting development, and worth

watching out for. Real mind power that goes beyond natural laws has a better chance of

really happening if we explore what Science and Spiritualism can offer us in unison.

However, the discussions on this subject matter are yet to be explored further by the

academe.

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CONCLUSION

Success is everybody’s business. Nobody wants to fail. The role of a powerful

mind cannot be overemphasized when we talk of success. No doubt, an empowered mind

is a big step towards triumph.

Emotions are good. We need them to express and confirm our will which the

mind has decided on. Being too emotional, however, works to our disadvantage. It

destroys the ability of the mind to judge stimuli rationally (or see things clearly), and

subordinates it to the will and emotions. The mind, when always subjected to such wrong

judgment, would later adapt to the frequent error and can misinterpret everything.

Feelings are seldom accurate. They are poor perceivers. They can get to a certain

amount of truth, but clouds of emotions often blur the truth. Feelings are designed as a

latter action or reaction after the mind has arrived at a conclusion. Feelings are not

supposed to act as a lead or a perceiver. Much less, they are not to be given power to

decide a final conclusion. Emotions are there to support what the mind has commanded

the will. It is like a wife assuring her husband that what he has decided is right. When we

have a reverse picture of a husband and wife — the wife deciding everything and the

husband coming in only as a “yes” man — then we also get a reverse result.

Perception is designed to ascertain correctness. The mind is the apt organ for

perceiving. Perception can be honed to such sharpness and accuracy that truth becomes

plainer to see. When you see the whole picture of a situation with your mind, and give the

mind total command, you are better equipped to respond.

There are times when you have an accurate perception of a stimulus, but then the

emotions independently decide on a different course. The will, at a loss as to where to go

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(there are times when you are “undecided” about something), would cling to the stronger

force, which is either the mind or the emotions. If this is always the case, you see an

indecisive person always unsure about things. He is easily torn between a whim and a

thought.

The mind clearly ought to rule over emotion and will. There should be no

compromise in this. Success depends largely on how empowered the mind is.

The mind is trained to rule through daily simple exercises that intensify as

progress goes. It is programmed to command and be obeyed by the emotions by telling

the will to take its side against a negative emotion, or vice versa. The mind can also tell

the emotions to take its side against a stubborn will.

In simple exercises, the mind is trained to assume a commanding mode. The

subservience of the emotions and will reinforces this. As triumph is programmed for the

mind, the exercises increase in level and intensity. This is repeatedly done over a long

period until the process of the mind commanding the emotions and will becomes

automatic and instant.

When the mind has mastered the commanding mode, it is subjected to a higher

level and trained to command not only the emotions but the whole body. Even the

voluntary systems and processes in the body are attempted to be commanded for positive

results.

As the mind progresses and given more power, it is then transported into a higher

dimension of power — the power to command things outside the body.

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However, it should be emphasized here that all this talk about so much power for

the mind starts with small steps. The mind must be able to discipline itself, the emotions,

and the will before it can take quantum leaps to higher and broader commands.

Why all this fuss about empowering the mind? Do we just want to prove

something vain here — like proving that you are somebody powerful?

Mind empowerment has lots of positive benefits. On a personal level, you can

command a positive emotion and attitude to surface from your inner self at just the wink

of an eye. It can improve your image with colleagues and other people. You can become

a very patient, understanding, and broad-minded person, seldom manifesting negative

behavior, and often approaching things with an open mind. Mind power can make you

see things clearly and more objectively. You can assess situations better, with a clear

mind and heart, and become a person of integrity and resoluteness. In a word, it makes

you a well-rounded person.

On a higher level, it can gradually eliminate a lot of physical hindrances that keep

you from having good health and an all-around feeling of wellness. It can help you

command your body to get better and healthier. You can tell your heart, lungs, kidneys,

and other internal organs to start functioning normally or start getting healed. You can

order your limbs to perform better if you are a sportsman. However, you also need to put

in patience and time if you want to see some real results.

On a much higher level, a truly empowered mind can make you affect other

people and your environment as well. In an extreme sense, you may be able to see

yourself actually commanding nature to work according to the urgency of your situation.

If an emergency requires that you go to a place but a storm happens to be raging, you

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may be able to command the storm to cease for a while so that you can get to your

destination safely. Commanding in this sense must not be used for mere entertainment or

proving that you have power to do things. It must be used for extreme emergencies—for

positive purposes alone.

These things may all sound crazy for the uninitiated. But there are people living

today who actually claim and record that these supernatural occurrences are true to them.

The ability has helped them and other people a lot in times of crisis.

Think of how the world would be if even half of its inhabitants are able to

exercise this positive super mind strength? For starters, it will be easy to see a world

without pain, hurts, ailments, and strange virus outbreaks like SARS. In the words of

theistic neo-spiritualists, it will be like “a world where God really walks around among

us.” Or perhaps, this is how scientists might put it: “It will be a world where the full

potentials of the rational mind reigns supreme, even extra supreme — and all other things

take a back seat.”

If it’s easy to see such a world, and that sight is believed by an authoritative mind,

the rest will follow. We will be writing history in a new light.