Monday, May 11, 2009

KEVIN ELKO ON CLUTTER

A few tidbits from Dr. Kelvin Elko's last newsletter concern the removal of "clutter." This stands out to me because when he spoke to our team a few years ago, "removing clutter" was a major point of emphasis. Find out more about Dr. Elko and sign up for his monthly newsletter at his website: http://www.drelko.com/

Here is a key point: if you have something floating around in your head and it is not a vision that you desire for this precious season of your life, then that collection of thoughts is "mental clutter." It is making impure your vision in the same way a room cluttered with too much furniture destroys the room's beauty. The mind that is sending out and bringing in has to be in a much simpler place.

Researcher Damian Rotter found that 78 percent of the population is driven by something outside of them, clutter; in other words, only 22 percent is not driven by clutter! To become the 22 percent, you need only not to plant thoughts that have the purpose of sinking your vision deeper. But there is more. The closer to pure your thoughts of your vision are, the greater the likelihood of their manifesting themselves. The challenge is that all day long you and I often have thoughts counter to the vision popping in our heads, and when we let these thoughts sit there, it is like planting a desired plant to germinate, but then letting all those undesired weeds grow beside our vision, squeezing the nutrients from the soil and eventually choking what we desired to death. You must constantly remove the mental clutter like daily pulling undesired weeds. And as this research suggests, the thoughts are constantly coming in from the outside, and then these outside thoughts are taking over like a bunch of bad weeds overpowering a beautiful rose garden.