The Odyssey of the Mind is summed up in one word.....BELIEF.
This odyssey I am referring to is that untapped part of our minds that allows us to go anywhere at anytime.
There are no restraints, no constraints, no limitations, no rules nor any kinds of regulations.
We are only limited by our own thinking.
This is what I call... the Odyssey of the mind.
Have you ever focused so hard on an idea that you were convinced that you brought it into being?
...Yeah, I have too.
Bringing that thought into existence by a strong belief is an odyssey. An Odyssey of the mind to be more specific.
An odyssey is an adventure, a saga, a continuing story....
...a journey through your own mind.
Your mind can take you anywhere at anytime so long as you know how to guide it.
It can build you OR it can destroy you -- it's all up to you.
This odyssey is a movement that happens all within your thinking, through your creating, and through your understanding.
It all happens through your belief.
Have you ever been at a place in your life where you feel that you needed to escape ?
...That you belonged somewhere else ?
...That you knew, without a doubt,
that a better life awaited you ?
The law of belief is the force of your own thought. It is what pushes your thought.
During the early part of her life, Harriet Tubman, an enslaved woman born in the early 1800s in America would go on to lead others out of bondage and into freedom.
This is a story of belief. She was a woman, who had been born into slavery escaped that bondage. Through the course of her life she made several dangerous excursions back to the place where she had once escaped in order to free others and give them the gift of freedom.
She was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1822. At that time period the state of Maryland had been considered a 'slave state' in which all persons born of African descent had been owned as property.
She was beaten and whipped as a child and would suffer a traumatic head injury.
It is believed that she had began having visions about her freedom and that she had heard the voice of God.
Having followed the words of these visions she set out to escape bondage as she headed for the state of Pennsylvania.
She would follow a path which was called "The Underground Railroad."
The 'underground railroad' had no headquarters, no maps, no compass, and no global positioning system but was comprised of a network of trails and safehouses that connected to other regions and states.
Harriet was always under the threat of being captured by bounty hunters or even civilians. She was also under the constant threat of death.
After having escaped captivity, Harriet, or 'Moses' as she would be referred to later in life, would return to make 13 more expeditions to rescue 70 others.
During the American Civil War she became a scout for the Union Army.
Later, she would become a political activist for women's suffrage.
This is a story of belief.
She saw it in her mind... and so it became.
Helen Keller was a pioneer of success while she possessed physical limitations.
Early in life she had contracted an illness thereby rendering her both deaf and blind, however, she would overcome these limitations with the help of another person.
Anne Sullivan, would be that person. Anne would teach Helen sign language and would be her instructor and companion for many years to come.
Helen would later attend the Perkins Intitute for the blind in 1888, and in 1894, she attended the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf.
After entering Radcliffe College she became the first person who was both deaf and blind to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
She would eventually learn to speak after having learned to read the lips and hands of others.
Helen learned to "hear" music through her fingertips and could go on to champion the causes of the physically impaired as well as the rights of women as well as help found the ACLU.
All this came from the belief that she could do it through the odyssey of belief which was the odyssey of her mind.
Could you imagine being a child and not being able to communicate with others?
Could you imagine being held in bondage without justification?
These women used the odyssey of their own minds. They used the power of belief.
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