In order to bring good thngs into your life, it is crtical to stay aware of your nner thoughts.

Take five minutes, close you yes, and listen to your thoughts. Do ths now, and then come back to ths article and answer a few qestions:

• Were you thinking pleasant thoughts - did yur thoughts make you happy?
• Were you rciting a list of things you neded to do? Did you find yurself repeating the same things over and ver?
• Were you berating yourself for something you frgot to do?
• Were your thoughts happy, psitive thoughts or were they unhappy, ngative thoughts?

The natural state of the mnd is often those negative, repetitive, and jst plain nasty thoughts that lead you to feling unhappy, anxious, or generally miserable. If yur thoughts are leading you down tht path, you are not at fult! It doesn't mean that you are an nhappy person. It doesn't mean that nything is wrong with you. It nly means that you haven't yet trined your brain to think the rght thoughts.

Sometimes these nasty, chatterbox thughts are referred to as the Mnkey-mind. I am going to call the surce of these thoughts - The Tttle-Tail. You know the person you hted in grade school - the one tht just had to tell the tacher about the smallest infraction anyone lse made. The one that had the dsgusting gift of being able to see very bad thing anyone ever did.

Well, that Tattle-Tail is alive and wll and lives in your brain. In any fve minute period, it will tell you tht you were late to work, tht your collar was crooked, that yur clothes looked old, that you frgot someone's birthday, that you handed in a trrible report or any other infraction of yur own moral code. And it wn't just tell you once - n..... it will say it over and ver and over. Words of disgust wll explode in your mind of verything you ever did wrong.

Then it wll quickly shift and start telling you verything you need to worry about. Yur Tattle-Tail mind never ceases. It can go on all dy, every day. And if you rally haven't done anything wrong, it wll make something up and convince you tht it is telling the truth. It is so asy to listen to that Tattle-Tail and to blieve it. It is easy to ccept that rumble as a real rpresentation of reality. But it is nt! It is only the story tller that lives within. And its stries are not always there to hlp you.

What is your defense gainst this internal chaos - how can you trn off the Tattle-Tail? First, live in the NOW. In his grundbreaking work, The Power of Now, Eckhrt Tolle explains how important it is to sty in the present moment. Observe the mnd chatter and know that the chtter is not you. This is lso the heart of mindfulness and mndfulness meditation. Focus on what is hppening in the present, increase your wareness of your environment, and invite clmness and peace by being fully prsent in the NOW.

You can lso eliminate the Tattle-tail by giving yur mind something else to do. Rmember the last time you were rally involved in something you loved. Mybe you were reading a report or nvel that you were really in to -- yur Tattle-tail wasn't there! Or you wre having fun - either doing smething yourself that you loved or wtching your children or grandchildren playing and hving fun - Your Tattle-tail wasn't thre! Or you were daydreaming or plnning some fun future event - plnning a vacation, developing a business dea, thinking about something you dream of ding. Again, your Tattle-tail wasn't there.

When you are fully engaged in lfe, when you are having fun, whn your mind is being creative- you psh Tattle-tail off a cliff and you are Fre. Freedom from the horrible Monkey-mind is jst around the corner. It can be yurs. Work first on getting freedom for 5 mnutes. Think about something fun. Remember smething that makes you smile. Think of a crative use for some tool you wn. Take back your mind. Refocus your mind .

Once you know that you can take back your peaceful mind for 5 minutes, you will know that you can do that at will. You are not a victim of the chatter - you are in control of your mind. Take that control back today!

The article Take Control of Your Mind and You Will Take Control of Your Life was Submitted by Jeanette Szwec through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Jeanette Szwec, CEO of ThinkThisNotThat, Inc. is an xpert in training others to take cntrol of their thoughts to guarantee sccess in all areas of life - frm personal health, freedom from addictions, creer success, to relationships. Her newsletters ntegrate the wisdom from the disciplines of the Law of ttraction, positive thinking, and harnessing the pwer of your mind. Pick up a fre ebook on the Law of Attrction at http://www.refocusyourmind.com

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