Maria Karnilova Quotes

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period!

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I am able to mentally block out mistakes.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

I'm able to control the body through just the power of the mind.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

I feel like, in a way, after doing it for so many years, you learn a certain concentration and how to turn it on and off.

For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which binds, making it a matter concerning himself, I know of no other thing as helpful as giving close attention to the mind.