Land Ho! There is always a pirate shouting that in the movies. It was to let the crew know they saw land on the horizon. The people on the land didn’t have such catch calls. They had other problems and sometimes the pirates became part of the problem when they landed. Thoughts are like that sometimes. They can drive us down into the proverbial mud, if we don’t have a handle on them. That is a problem for most people.
I’ve spent weeks discussing words and thoughts. Words and thoughts are important to everything we do. Societies have their own sets of words and definitions for them. That is mainly where we learn the words we know. They play a key role in mental health.
If you think about it, our mental health can be considered real estate; real estate is land or property we own. Some of us live on our real estate or operate businesses from them. They can be rented or owned. For the sake of argument, our mental real estates are owned by us since the day we were conceived.
Words affect our mental real estates in big ways. The biggest way we are affected mentally by words is our identity. The more we know who we are and are matured into who we are the less words from outside sources affect us. But they can affect us even when we know who we are.
People are people; we can be having a great day now and five minutes later break down sobbing for no reason. Words. Times we don’t even know we’re being bombarded with words that want to devalue our land.
Our usage of words can change a lot of the things we struggle with mentally though. For one thing, people who are anchored in the truth have a lot of words going through our heads every minute. We don’t break because we have gone through the rough and tough and came out brighter.
Strong people are anchored in the truth; the truth that says “If my words live in you and you live in my word, ask anything and it will be done for you”. When our identity is anchored in the truth, we don’t worry about worrying thoughts that come and go. Instead our mental real estate is built on a solid foundation that doesn’t shake in storms or earthquakes.
If you are struggling with anxiety or other worrying thoughts though, you can always take back some real estate from those thoughts by anchoring yourself in the truth. The reality of life is, thoughts do take us captive sometimes. Various factors and reasons bring us into captivity to thoughts.
People who know who they are understand that we can also take thoughts captive. They don’t have to control us. In fact, worrying thoughts can become great assets if we can take them captive, because in the future we’ll know how to deal with them. It all depends on our mental real estate and our willingness to anchor ourselves to the truth.
It is important to consider and establish your identity and your character when you’re able. This gives you a leg up on most people because our mental real estate becomes accessible to who we are and what we allow in. That is the secret to making successful mental real estate transactions; having an identity anchored in the truth. The truth can make your real estate unbreakable.
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