CHAPTER ONE
Slavery is of the Mind Not Physical
"When you control a mans thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his proper placeand will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary."—Carter G. Woodson
Many years ago, there was a great deal of slavery. Some individuals were owned by their fellow human beings. They were bought and sold, treated like cattle.
Today such slavery is dead but worse form exists and it is called Mental slavery. It is a form of bondage in which the vast majority of people owe their Minds to someone else. It is a form of slavery which finds people doing the work they hate, living in an environment which they dont like, going to places they dont want, doing things against their will, and in many other ways surrendering to the will of the people willingly and joyfully.
Mental Slavery is far more sinister than physical slavery because the chains are invisible and are transmitted across generations. If slavery was only physical, Most people would have within one generation been able to skip the plethora of social-economic issues which plague them locally and globally, the chains would have fallen off. But it is far more complex because we are dealing with the mind which results in mental trauma.
To get much out of life we must break the bond of mental slavery so that we can enjoy life and lay hold of our inheritance in Christ.
Galatians 5:1,13
1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
13. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
We are born again to be enslaved we are called into liberty
God loves us nothing and as such we must connect ourselves to receive from Him by changing the way we think.
Romans 12:2, says"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
God wants you to get rid of Mental slavery by changing the way you think. You must not conform to the pattern of the Mediocre.
Our minds must be renewed if we are to experience transformation. Remember, the only thing constant in life is change.
People who enjoy the good life, people who climb ahead, people who get where they ought to be must kick out mental slavery.
You can conquer Mental slavery by dealing with the following forms of slavery:
1. What will people think about me slavery?
2. I Am certain to fail slavery.
3. Iam unsafe slavery, that is, insecurity.
4. Its too late slavery.
5. Past mistake slavery.
6. Environmental slavery.
WHAT WILL OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT ME SLAVERY
Other people will say,kill your creativity and your ability to have the kind of fun you like, go to places you want, do the things you want. Most people make errors by listening to the advice of unqualified people. Advice is everywhere and most of it is free. Your neighbors, relatives, associates etc..
The best advice is that you advice yourself – M. Iuka
'Other people will say' slavery is strong to resist at times'.
This probably explains why too many women fix their hair like others, salesman sell just alike and are therefore strictly ordinary in the money earned column; and as such live a boring, unhappy, unsatisfied life.
I AM CERTAIN TO FAIL- SLAVERY
Here is another exceeding common form of slavery. People who have surrendered to this kind of slavery continually think I havent got a chance, I will fail, I cant get a better job, I cant earn enough money, the whole world is against me, my boss doesnt think much about me and so on. Only a miracle can produce victory for a football team that knows it will get beaten because as a man thinketh in his heart so is he. The excessive smoker who wants to give up cigarettes telling himself I know I cant never do it.
I am certain to fail slavescan cure themselves, but it takes a change of thinking.
Here is how you can break the bonds of I Am certain to fail slavery:
1.Hold positive chat to yourself: talk is mere verbalized thinking. Sentences are just thoughts expressed in language.
2. Think I'm going to succeed, not Iam to fail: when you think youll succeed, your mind amazingly begins to find the solution for success.
3. Think I Am a winner not a loser. Adopt Cassius Clay philosophy in this regard. Cassius over a long period of time, told himself he was the greatest until he had convinced himself, and in the analysis of his life course on earth he was successful. Other people will be convinced of your success only when you have convinced yourself.
IT IS TOO LATE SLAVERY
This slavery goes something like this; I have already had my chance, but I missed it, so I am stuck and I will just have to try and make the best of a bad situation.
I AM UNSAFE SLAVERY
This slavery suggests or convinces its victims of their level of insecurity. They feel insecure in all the things they do. But security comes within, not outside.
Galatians 5:1,13
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
13. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. and of slavery is enormous. Many people even fight to achieve security. Yet the more security we have the less psychological freedom we can enjoy.
PAST MISTAKES SLAVERY
Persons enslaved with this kind of slavery are always afraid to try again because of some place along the line they lost. Any individual who wants to control his mind must learn to develop a philosophy toward making mistakes.'Blessed is he who is not discouraged by mistakes. Blessed is he who is glad he makes mistakes. Winning or losing is a state of the mind'.
It is true that all things worketh together for good to those who love God, also know that sometimes you may lose because in losing you win.
If you lose your job, it is good. You shouldnt be in a situation where you arent suited.
Flunk a course in school? Deserted by a lover? Lose money in a stock market? Have a flooded basement? Come out second in the race? Lose an election? All these misfortunes are misfortunes only when we think they are.
Losing is good if you can interpret the loss properly.
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains, any fool can do that. The most important thing is to profit from your loss.
ENVIRONMENTAL SLAVERY
Your environment includes these things that surround you. Your environment, probably more than you realize, shapes your attitude, view point and philosophy toward life.
For many people, their environment is a form Mental prison, that is, something that shades initiatives, kills desire, warps the personality.
There is only one cure for environmental slavery. That is to make a firm decision to control your environment and not let it control you.
DROP YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL SKELETONS
Every day many people commit Mental suicide. These people kill a portion of what we commonly refer to as CONSCIENCE.
They use two weapons to murder their Conscience. The first weapon is embarrassment and the second is Guilt.
Embarrassment comes from doing something your training, that is, education, background and the society admits to be wrong. The embarrassment complex is caused by doing anything you feel your friends, superior, subordinates and people around you will not approve of.
Thinking Iam second rate, I cant do it, Mr A and Mr B is better than I, I am not prepared, I made a fool of myself, are some of the ways we commit Mental suicide using embarrassment complex as murder weapon.
Guilt comes doing instinctively what you know is wrong. The guilt complex involves your soul. Lying, cheating, stealing, swindling, faking, hiding, these are ways we commit psychological murder with a guilty complex. Remember, it profits nothing to murder your soul.
The guilty complex and the embarrassment complex create the same effect. They inhabit our actions, destroy our confidence, create worry, and make us do things in a fearful manner.
Guilt and embarrassment are psychologically destructive just as cancer is to a biological tissue.
SOME COMMON MENTAL SKELETONS
1. Husband and wife is an alcoholic
2. Husband or wife is having an affair with another person.
3. Member of the family, perhaps the husband or father, has a police record or is in jail.
4. Teenage daughter is pregnant and unmarried.
5. Young child fails to be admitted to a special prestige school.
6. Individuals were fired from their previous job.
7. Family has little money and wants quite a bit.
8. Members of the family are undergoing psychiatric treatment or are institutionalized for mental illness.
9. Child is expelled from school for improper behavior.
10. Individual is ashamed of lowly background
The above list covers just a few of the more common psychological skeletons.
A Mental skeleton is anything in your past that you feel is disgraceful or painfully embarrassing. It is the type of thing you dont want your friends and associates to know about.
FOUR THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HANDLE SKELETONS
1. Hide your skeleton. This is to say that you dont have to go around wearing a sign saying my husband is in jail or my wife is an alcoholic. I got fired for embezzling at my last job.
2. Remember, your skeletons are as common as sand in the ocean.
All of us are guilty of thinking we are highly unique individuals. The skeletons you may be keeping locked in a mental closet are exceedingly common.
No one has anything to speak malicious humor at you because of some skeleton, for it could be poked to him to just as a great degree.
Shame, embarrassment, and guilt all seem to disappear when we realize that each of us, rich or poor, smart or stupid, handsome or ugly, came from the same biological seed.
3. Stop depositing bad thoughts in your memory bank. In many ways our brain can be compared with a bank.
You alone have the keys to this memory bank. Only you can decide
what you will remember. Choose to recall a memory positively.
Learn to laugh at your defeats. Learn to recall it as a lesson, but never look upon it as negative.
Dont always think that all things work together for good, think at times some things can be remembered for good.
4. You cant go wrong doing what is right.
Often it does take a lot of psychological guts to do what is right.
Much of the indecision in life can be traced to an inability to
understand the concept you cant go wrong doing what is right'.
THE BOND IS BREAKABLE
Bob Marley asserted,Emancipate yourself from mental slavery none but ourselves can free our mind.
Believe it or not, today there are so many people living as slaves. Perhaps not physically but mentally. As a result, they are slaves to their jobs, slaves to fear and doubt, slaves to their relationship, slaves to money and much more.
In other words, we can be slaves to everything that controls us. A slave is a person that is being controlled by another person or thing.
To understand more about mental slavery, lets look where it first started.
The term Mental Slaverywas developed by a prominent Pan-Africanist and black nationalist, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who was born in Jamaica.
In one of his poems he writes: We are going to emancipate yourselves from mental slavery because whilst others mind be free from the body, not but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop how to use his mind is bound to be a slave of the other man who uses his mind.
It is important to know the slavery mentality that could be blocking you to achieve success.
Below are the ten ways to recognize this mind-set, and how to break free from it.
I just want you to know that; you are destined for greatness. Your potential was not given for you to deposit in the grave, but to be exposed and developed.
Here are TEN ways to recognize Mental Slavery:
1. You have a quick to obey, follow, conform, fit inlifestyle
2.You listen too much to negative opinion
3. You have lack of knowledge, reading or researching
4. You go with the whatever is convenientoption
5. You have little to no self-love and no self-confidence whatsoever
6. You are more negative than positive
7. You dont want to the the hard work, you expect others to do the hard work for you
8. You are bound to your comfort zone
9. You prefer others to think for you than doing the thinking on your own
10. You work on other peoples wishes or purpose instead of your own. But do you know that everything in life has a purpose? To illustrate, let me give you an example.
Lets look at a car. Whats the purpose of a car? Exactly! Its to drive. Now imagine buying a brand new car only to put it into your garage and leave it there. Is the car living up to its purpose? No!
Its just the same thing with us humans! We are full of potential, but if we allow ourselves to do whatever our mind wants without being thoughtful then we are not living up to the purpose that we were established on earth for.
Harriet Tubman assertedI freed a thousand slaves, I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves 
How to break loose from the slave mentality.
The truth is, I cant change your mind-set. In fact, Bob Marley said it best None but ourselves can free our mind.In other words, its about recognizing a pattern and then changing it.
True potential will be discovered the moment we decide to step into the unknown. What is the unknown? Its the opposite of your comfort zone.
The path to mental freedom is achieved through conscious upgrading of the mind.
keys to help you break free from your limitations:l pplto fulfill, dont be afraid to pursue it. This is the year of execution, time to start implementing.
Our minds are the biggest battlefields. In other words, your mind-set can determine if you grow or remain stuck in the exact same position for a long term. Therefore, decide for a change today. Break loose, and set yourself free from a slave mentality and grow in knowledge.
Remember, knowledge is power if you choose to use it correctly!
POINTS TO PONDER
Conquerother people slavery, remember other people are followers, not leaders, you are nobody until you are criticized for what you do
a. Repeat your ability, your intelligence, your opinion. Develop a favorable self-image.
b. Stop thinking you are too old. Age is mainly a state of mind.
c. Learn to like living dangerously. Enjoy the fact that you dont know for sure what will happen tomorrow
d. Regard your losses as part of your education, remember; winning is a state of mind.
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