The power of your mind

There is a lot to be said about the power of your mind and how deal with different situations. Are you open the change? do you want to improve? do you see new ideas as threats to what you are doing now? Are you able to have the idea in like a bubble, that's placed in front of you? that you then can discuss?

When a person holds the idea (or believe) close to them, it's like having a marble secured in the palm of your hand,  with the hand tightly closed, it doesn't let anything else in.

Doing this doesn't allow any new ideas and has the effect of not being able to grow and expand, so nothing changes. You could say that you are protected from bad influence, like distractions which is true, however, it makes you closed off from new ideas, and has the picture of old person, who won't do anything new. That's not to say they cant (within reason) but they won't allow themselves to open there mind, the would rather stay in the safe space the know.

It's not an age thing, but it can be more common as years of time, create a pattern. Some cant expand, but many would rather stay in what they know.

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