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<center><h1><em>Are you the master of your thoughts or are you actually a mental serf? Here is how to find out.</em></h1></center>
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How do most people form their opinions of the world? Parents, friends, school, and TV are a few of the most likely candidates for shaping thoughts. <strong>Most people will proudly declare that they think for themselves, when in fact they do not. </strong>

There is a huge portion of the population that cannot think logically. That doing this will lead to that which causes the other thing to happen. <strong>These people have been successfully programmed to give up their independent thought process for lazy groupthink. They have given up their mental rights, and now work the land for their masters. </strong>

<h3>Maybe you have seen or heard such people?</h3>

So few people are able to find the real facts and use their logic and reasoning to come to their own personal and independent opinion of the matter. These people have not given up their mental sovereignty and stay in control of their mind.
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<center>http://i.imgur.com/MQBRWCS.jpg</center><center><h1>News</h1></center>
<a href="https://steemit.com/life/@getonthetrain/why-you-need-to-stop-consuming-the-news">If you have been reading my articles, you know I do not watch or read the news.</a> The media has become consolidated to the point that just a few mega-corporations own over 90% of it. I saw that the news lost its journalistic integrity long ago, it and the rest TV is exactly what it says on the tin – a <strong>“TV Program.” </strong>

<strong>The news is the worst and most blatant programming,</strong> but many TV shows also subtly program people as well. All in all, TV is nothing more than a very successful way to program minds to think in one way. The mental serfs eat this gruel and thank their masters for it.

The news is only there to get eyeballs to make money on advertising and to create emotional reactions to sell their agenda. I suggest that you stop or reduce your consumption of this propaganda, use the time to a better purpose. 
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<center>http://i.imgur.com/AAMS3JH.jpg</center><center><h1>Advertising</h1></center>
Another field that wants to control your thoughts is advertising. They want to control how you spend, they want you to *need* whatever it is they are selling. You turn your life’s energy and time into money, and to hand it over for some fleeting knick-knack just transfers more of your power away from you. Advertising is another powerful force that has taken over the lives of the serfs. 

A sovereign knows what they need or want and can see past advertising.
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<center>http://i.imgur.com/0NjqHJr.jpg</center><center><h1>Society</h1></center>
You cannot just look at someone to see if they are a mental serf or not. Since a large portion of the human race are serfs, and repeat the lines fed to them, a king (or queen!)must not follow the crowd. To be a king is to be lonely. To be a king requires effort of thought. It’s hard to be a king. <strong>A king must be strong.</strong>
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<center>http://i.imgur.com/EulOvAL.jpg</center><center><h1>Mental Sovereignty</h1></center>
THINK FOR YOURSELF. If the matter is important to you then get the core facts and use your logic and reasoning to think it through.

Know that you do not have the ability to decrypt everything that happens in the world. In fact you need to only focus on what is happening in YOUR world and even more so what is happening there that YOU can control or change.  

The ancient Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius once said:
<strong>*”You have the power over your own mind – not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”*</strong>

Too often people get stressed or emotional over something they cannot control. If you cannot change it, do not get stressed over it! Use your energy in a more productive way.

<h3>If you do not like something and it is within your power to change it, then either change it or accept it as it is and stress over it no longer!</h3>

Here are five steps to help you analyze that which you have deemed worthy of your time and mental energy.
* Remove all emotion. Decisions based solely off emotion are nearly always wrong.
* Use Logic to internally analyze the issue using your current knowledge and experiences. This ensures that you have a baseline that is unaltered by any bias besides your own innate one.
* Gather the facts.
* With these new facts, again go over the issue with your logic and reasoning.
* See if your opinion stands on its own and if it passes then determine your action to it.

<h3>Also, always remember that you might be wrong. So keep an open mind and be on the lookout for new facts.</h3>
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