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"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." Buddha
Question 'reality'
I remember one day, half way through the treatment m…
The Sirens’ call
Everyday there are thousands of beguiling voices using ever cleverer ways to attract us eg. with humor, drama, friends, protest, shock, envy. Attention determines what we will be conscious of at any given moment. What we are conscious of is our experience of reality. Our attention is therefore the basis of our experience of life.
Do we really want to allow our existence to be at the mercy of…
Protest
If we are not careful we can float into unconscious acceptance of everything that the ad is projecting.
When we look back at archived ads we can see how racist, sexist, insulting and degrading many of them are. The cultural acceptance of disrespect to certain groups was so strong that…
Who is in the car with you?
We live in the map not the world
Neurolinguistic programming distinguishes between the ‘map’ and the ‘territory’. The map is the representation of the world that we have in our minds. The map is our reality but it is not the ‘territory’, which is the vast flux of space and atoms that make up the world., the universe and beyond. We live our lives through this map, our own version of reality.
The important thing to constantly remember is that it is just a map, our own creation which we have the power to change and evolve into th…
Become aware of what you can’t perceive
There is an enormous amount of sensory information swirling around us that our human sense organs are not able to detect. There are clear limits to human sensory detection. Each species has its own set of limits. Bats, dogs, dolphins are living in a completely different sensory experience than ours. ‘Reality’ is species specific.
There is also an enormous amount of information that is detected by our sense organs but which because of personal subconscious filters does not enter our consciousne…
Choose your train carefully
A man was on a train.
He looked out of the window as the train passed through the station.
What an ugly place he thought.
The train carried on.
The surroundings were gloomy and miserable.
"I don’t like this journey at all. This isn’t where we should be going," he said to his friend.
His friend looked at him in confusion: ‘You are the driver. There is no one else. ”
Thoughts come into our consciousness. If we fuel the thought with energy and emotion, it quickly leads to another, cre…