In the recently released Green Lantern movie, the Head Lantern warns planet Earth’s Green Lantern, that “fear makes your constructs feeble!”
His advice actually meant that our doubts, worries, anxieties, trepidations, fears, or as my LinkedIn colleague, Chad expresses it, our limiting, “negative and pessimistic thoughts” will make the products (those “constructs”, blueprints or imaginings) of our minds, our wills and our emotions weak, insipid, inefficient, impotent and ineffectual as we try to deal with the challenges of our world.
Because the Green Lantern was destined to fight a very powerful, extremely terrifying and truly monstrous enemy, he needed to have the ability to tap into and draw upon the full strength and potency of his mental, psychological and emotional faculties, if he ever hoped to defeat this creature.
On the other hand, Christians are advised to recognize and combat the stratagems of their adversary – his methods of warfare are predicated on the injection of those fear producing doubts, hopelessness, and unbelief that, if left unchecked, will surely bring about defeat, misery and deadliness that we are warned to avoid in our quest towards victorious living.
Look at it this way, leaders who are being held captive by, who are struggling in the bondage of, and whose life force (that awesome potential power of the mind, will and emotions) is being choked by a yoke of negative, indulgent, pessimistic, destructive, defeatist, dismal, dismaying, despondent or limiting thinking will not be inspired to reach out to love others, to love themselves or to love the conditions of their lives!
As many gurus, spiritual or philosophical leaders have counseled their disciples, we must take extra care to develop, maintain and sustain a rigorously healthy thought life – we must be vigilant in our awareness of the thoughts and feelings we experience on a moment by moment basis – by using meditation (saying the words that give us unquenchable power), by speaking positive affirmations, by reading the words of power out loud, through prayer to God (the Divine Supreme Being) and through acts of praise and worship for God.
When a negative thought or feeling begins to rise up, we must equip, prepare and focus ourselves to “cast it down”, when defeat or hopelessness appear in our souls or heads, we should capture it and throw it away, when we hear our self talk telling us that our highest, most noble ideals are insufficient and unworthy of our esteem, we must crush and grind the heads of those words into dust!
The Green Lantern was finally able to direct his mind, will and emotions to construct clear thoughts, confident feelings and determined commitment to overcome his adversaries and bring peace and safely to the Galaxy – that should prove that other leaders, like you, can achieve and enjoy those same fruits of victory as he.
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