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    8 Rules for the Messy Mind: How to Understand the Psychological Loop and Get the Most from the Thing Inside Your Head
    8 Rules for the Messy Mind: How to Understand the Psychological Loop and Get the Most from the Thing Inside Your Head
    8 Rules for the Messy Mind: How to Understand the Psychological Loop and Get the Most from the Thing Inside Your Head
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    8 Rules for the Messy Mind: How to Understand the Psychological Loop and Get the Most from the Thing Inside Your Head

    By Rich J Chapman

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    8 Rules for the Messy Mind is self-help book with a simple aim: to make the reader aware of how the human mind operates on a psychological loop; and that by understanding and controlling this loop the mind can be made much more efficient and effective so as to serve its owner better.

    Firstly outlining how to understand and control common psychological issues such as OCD, neurotic thinking and depression, this book then list seven rules that, if followed, will allow the psychological loop to run more smoothly and so unlock a mind's true potential.

    Most self-help books tell you how to help yourself based on a presumably clear mind. This book tells you how to get that clear mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRich J Chapman
    Release dateSep 29, 2018
    ISBN9780463632734
    8 Rules for the Messy Mind: How to Understand the Psychological Loop and Get the Most from the Thing Inside Your Head

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      8 Rules for the Messy Mind - Rich J Chapman

      8 Rules for the Messy Mind

      How to understand the psychological loop

      and get the most from the thing inside your head

      By Rich J Chapman

      Copyright 2018

      Smashwords Edition

      Introduction

      The human mind is generally a messy one, and different people have different things to clear up.

      The fact that the mind is generally messy is not that surprising. After all, it is to be expected that complex structures and systems are more likely to have faulty offshoots than simple ones. But just as a room needs a good tidy once in a while, and your computer needs a disk clean up now and then, the mind likewise needs a steady removal of clutter to work well.

      This short book lists eight rules to clear the messy mind, whereby different readers will probably find some of the rules more relevant to them than others. However, in all or in part, these rules can help to make the messy mind clear and effective once more.

      It could be noted that this book is the foundation for all of the other ‘self-help’ books within the genre that you might have read or will read in the future. Without firstly controlling your mind, Feeling the Fear and Doing it Anyway, or adopting the Habits of Highly Successful People, is just not likely to happen, as your mind is unlikely to have the strong base needed to utilise the good advice given. It is only by controlling your mind first and foremost that you can get it to truly work for you and so reach its fullest potential.

      This book tells you how to do just that.

      Rule number 1

      You control your mind; you do not allow your mind to control you.

      There are three stages to this rule.

      Stage 1 – Firstly, recognise and understand completely that your mind is your servant and it does what you tell it to do. You are your mind’s master. Just like a dog, your mind obeys and serves you.

      And just like a dog, your mind wants to be controlled – it wants a master and it wants to be your servant. It knows that it is in a symbiotic relationship, and so what is good for it is thus good for you, and likewise what is good for you is good for it. It wants to be your servant, it wants you to be its master, and you are its master and it is your servant.

      Understand this: your mind, that is inside your brain and that is inside your head, belongs to you. It is your mind and it is your servant and it does whatever you want it to do. It will be with you for the rest of your life so get to know it well and be at ease with it, but always be its master. It serves you and does what you want it to do and it wants to serve and do what you want it to do.

      Stage 2 – Second, for your mind to be your servant, and for you to be its master, you need to control it. Just like a dog, you need to bring it to heel. If it is being disobedient or is misbehaving you need to control it and bring it back into line. And just like a dog, it wants to be brought to heel. Being brought to heel means it feels controlled so that it can serve you better and feel rewarded accordingly. It wants you – its master – to keep it under control.

      To control your mind you need to understand the psychological loop and how it works.

      The psychological loop is, in effect, how we navigate and interact with the world whenever we are in a conscious state.

      It is a three modality circuit consisting of a cognitive, emotional, and behavioural aspect. Each aspect is activated so as to lead to the next one so that the circuit is both continuous and complete. In essence, we think, we feel, and we do, and

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