EDITORS NOTE
KEEP THEIR MINDS WEAK
There’s a scene in the true-story movie The Great Debaters in which
professor Melvin Tolson, played by Denzel Washington, educates his
students about a slave owner’s method of controlling his slaves. His
strategy was, “keep the slave physically strong but psychologically
weak and dependent on the slave owner”.
W
e have to watch out for the negative words
that attack us every day. Sometimes they
come at us from people around us. It’s
not that they’re bad people, but negativity is so
widespread that sometimes people can’t help it. For
example, a young lady was told by her mother: “Your
looks would be perfect if it weren’t for your nose…”
And that’s from her mother!
It’s not that the mother is a bad person — I know
her. It’s just that sometimes people don’t realise how
negativity works, and they allow it to use them to
harm others.
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Sometimes it comes at us from within. Negative
self-talk — that little voice you hear at a very
inconvenient time telling you why something won’t
work, or why you can’t do this or that, or why another
person is more capable than you.
The negative mind wants to enslave you. Its favourite
method is to weaken your mind. In case you didn’t
know it, words are the structure of your thoughts.
Watch out for them.
P.S. In this magazine, you will learn the secret to
having a positive mind. Keep reading to find out how.