From The Bed of Abdoulaye
New York City
Dear friend,
The game of life is played and won in the mind. If you master your mind, you will master life. But that shit ain’t easy. Only a few people have complete mastery over their minds in the whole world. The rest are slaves to their thoughts, slaves to their desires and slaves to the world. To live the life you want, it’s imperative you master your mind. From the best of my knowledge here are a few ways to do so.
Quiet Your Mind Young Warrior
Thoughts coming in from all places. Stimulus coming at you from all directions. Your minds in constant overdrive trying to process everything. In order to master your mind, you must learn how to quiet it.
There are lots of ways this result can be achieved.
The most popular one is meditation. Sit down and concentrate on your breath for twenty minutes a day. After a handful of consecutive meditation sessions, (momentum is important) you’ll start being able to silence your mind. At first, it’ll be for short periods of time, maybe a few seconds only. Yet those few seconds will be blissful beyond belief. With more consistency and practice, you’ll be able to silence your mind for much longer periods of time.
The benefits this practice will have on the rest of your life is no joking matter. Your stress levels will decrease to the point they seem non-existent. Your peace of mind will shoot through the roof. You’ll be calmer and more prone to making good decisions.
Since your mind will be calm, it’ll have enough free space to allow lots of great ideas to ruminate within it. The benefits of a quiet mind goes on and on. Give it a go and find out for yourself. This isn’t some mumbo jumbo. This is real powerful shit. Master your mind, master life.
Becoming Fluent In The Reframe
There are so many things in life that are going to happen to fuck your mood up. It’s inevitable. It happens to the best of us. We get sick, we experience excruciating heart breaks, we lose friends and family, get in car accidents, and even get fired from our jobs. The list is endless. The only way to make sure you come out on top of situations like this is by mastering the art of the reframe.
The reframe is simply taking something that happens to you and reframing it in a way that suits you better. The best way to learn is through examples so here are a bunch to facilitate reframes penetrating your mind.
| Situation | Pre-Reframe | Reframe |
|---|---|---|
| Got into a car crash | Damn I totaled my car, how am I going to pay for this? | Thank god I’m alive and nobody is hurt. And how perfect just when I needed a new car |
| Got dumped | I’m screwed, I won’t find somebody else to be with me | It wasn’t meant to be, will find someone even better next time |
| Just payed rent can’t afford food | I’m such a loser, nobody would want to be with a failure like me | The most high is testing how I’m able to handle and overcome this situation, this is the best time of my life |
Reframing is an art form. Master the art of reframing, and you will master your mind. Anything you don’t like, just reframe it into something you do like. Simple.
Control Your Emotions
This is one of those things all adults need to know how to do. And guess what, in all the time we spent in school, not even one class was dedicated to this. To master your mind, you need to master your emotions.
If you can’t master your emotions, you’ll be a slave to them. You’ll be a slave to your anger. What ever makes you angry, you’ll have a reaction to that.
You’ll be a slave to your lust. You’ll be a horn dog running from nut to nut with nothing to show for me.
IF you can’t control your emotions you’ll be the type of person who blames other for getting you angry. You’ll take no responsibility for how you feel. You’ll just dump it on the most likely scapegoat.
Not having control of your emotions can cost you your life. Someone crosses in front of your car abruptly. You get mad. You roll your window down and start calling them names. You’re talking about their mother and saying all other types of crazy talk because you’re in the heat of the moment. That’s when they pull out their gun. Empty it on your emotionally unstable ass, and drive off.
The amount of people that get their asses beat up because they opened their mouths out of anger at the wrong person is astounding. Learn how to control your emotions to master your mind or you’ll end up in a worldstar video getting your ass knocked the fuck out.
The above is a list of a simple trifecta effect you can use to master your mind. You have no option but to master your mind. The alternative is being your minds slave, and that’s a dangerous game to play. If you want to make the world a better place like you should, your best course of action is by sorting yourself. And the best way to do that is by learning how to master your mind.
Make it happen.
Until next time
Your man
Abdoulaye
P.S I’m so tired my body is aching. Thank god I have feeling in all my body and I’m capable of using it to the best of my current capabilities.
P.S.S Reframe game stronger then a swing holding 3 fat chicks