How to Access the Power of Your Mind

Mindy Hitchcock's life might have looked idyllic on the outside...By the time she had reached her early 40's, in addition to a career as a criminal lawyer, she sported a black belt in karate, and was in phenomenal shape. She had also been married for 23 years to the same man, with whom she had 2 beautiful children, fraternal twins, now in their teens. On the inside, however, Mindy's life was anything but idyllic - the criminal lawyer was about to make a decision that would alter her world forever.

At age 22, Mindy had married Charles, a man from a different ethnic background who was more than twice her age. Rejected by her family for her choice, Mindy moved straight from her parent’s home into the home of yet another parental figure – her new husband.

Over the years of their marriage, Charles, a former Army drill sergeant, treated Mindy like one of his buck privates. Not only did he rule over Mindy with an iron fist, he made every major decision about her life – for better or worse. For example, it was Charles who decided that Mindy should go to law school – so she could get his buddies out of jail!

The last thing that Mindy had ever wanted to do was defend felons, but she obeyed her husband and went on to earn her law degree. She passed the bar in Michigan and later in Florida, whereupon her husband began taking her to the prisons to visit her new clients.

Criminal law scared Mindy. For one thing, she lacked the pit bull personality of a criminal lawyer, and secondly, her clients were nefarious beings that refused to take responsibility for their actions and threatened her when things didn't go as they'd expected.

When Mindy's twins enrolled in a karate class, she decided to try the martial art form as well. At least this way, if one of her clients ever lunged at her, she'd be able to protect herself. While studying karate, Mindy discovered the wisdom of Bruce Lee. In addition to being one of the world's top martial artists, Bruce Lee was also a Zen Buddhist philosopher. Mindy contemplated his words...

"Wisdom does not consist of trying to wrest the good from the evil, but rather in learning to 'ride' them, as a cork adapts itself to the crests and troughs of the waves."

She thought about how a cork bobbed and floated. It had no opinion about whether things were good or bad. When the waves went up, it went up. When the waves went down, it went down. It went with the flow. She wondered if she could ride through the good and bad times in her life as easily as a cork would bob upon the water. She would soon have the opportunity to find out...

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