The mind

 

Daily Reflection — Yoruba Yogi

Lately, I’m beginning to understand the mind on a whole different level. When I walk into churches or recovery rooms, I no longer go there to be taught — I go there to observe. I’ve started to see how much of our culture is built on fear. Fear tells people when to wake up, when to work, what to believe, and who to follow. Fear has become a teacher, but not a wise one.

I’m realizing that many people aren’t actually learning how to think. They’re just repeating what they’ve been told. Every message sounds the same, every Sunday sounds the same, and every testimony sounds the same. It’s like watching programming in real time, and it opens my eyes to how powerful repetition is. You say something long enough, people start believing it without question.

But my own journey is different. I didn’t get here by fear — I got here by reading, running, meditating, and rebuilding my mind from the ground up. I’ve spent years studying everything: the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, philosophy, psychology. I read until the words changed me. I ran until my mind opened. I meditated until silence became my teacher. I trained myself out of negativity, out of old beliefs, out of everything that held me down.

And now I can see the difference between stopping a habit and transforming a mind. A lot of people think that if they stop drinking or stop using, then they’re healed. But I learned the hard way that you have to rewire your mind. You have to teach your brain a new language. You have to be willing to question everything you were taught.

I’m also realizing how much of my early life was shaped by other people’s fears and expectations. I didn’t know how powerful I was because I let my environment define me. I let society decide what I was capable of. I let old beliefs limit my thinking. Now I’m getting it all back, piece by piece. And I see how much work it actually takes to reclaim your own mind.

What amazes me is the growth in my thinking — how the words that once scared me have become easy, how the thoughts that used to intimidate me now feel natural. It took years of writing, training, praying, walking, and sitting with myself to get here. But I can feel the shift inside me every day.

Right now, my focus is simple:

Keep listening. Keep observing. Keep mastering my mind.

Because the mind is the real battlefield, and I’ve worked too hard to let it slip back into old patterns.

Yoruba Yogi.