When an army is fighting a war, it depends on its intelligence – its information sources – to know the strength of the enemy. But if the army’s intelligence has been penetrated and compromised by that very enemy, then this untrustworthy source will give misleading information. For example, it may misinform that the enemy forces are far bigger than what they actually are, thereby demoralizing the army and thus defeating it mentally even before the war has begun physically. A similar misinformation campaign targets us internally when we battle against life’s inevitable challenges. In this inner battle, the misleader is the mind – it often misreports the size of the obstacle. It depicts the problem to be gargantuan, making us seem like ants utterly unequal to the task. And the more we listen uncritically to the mind’s assessment of the situation, the more we feel dwarfed and demoralized. Thus, our mind-distorted perception of the problem becomes a bigge...
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