"just saw a chav break a guys nose in subway for no reason what so ever.. :-/ hate the lack of justice in the world.."
My friend posted on a news feed. I automatically think of what needs people meet whenever I hear these stories. Studying human needs psychology you learn there are six primal needs that drive everyone to do what they do. The first four are needs of the human personality and everybody meets one or more of these needs at all times.
1 - certainty
2 - variation
3 - significance
4 - love/connection
The last two are the needs of the human being. These needs are the ones that make you feel alive and fulfilled.
5 - growth
6 - contribution
Some people can't meet the last two so they battle between the first four. The first and second needs are in paradox because people need certainty but at the same time need uncertainty for stimulation. The third and fourth are in paradox because everybody needs to feel significant or needed but when doing so that usually corrupts the forth need for love/connection. When people act significant around the people they seek love/connection it creates conflicts. You see this everywhere.
This man who broke this guy's nose must have done it to meet some of his needs for significance and certainty that he can be in control. In this situation of braking someone's nose he is getting some variation and he feels emotionally stimulated. But this nose breaker was not alone.
"if it was just one guy i think i would have killed him.. or at least broke his legs off.. but it was about 5 guys :-/"
My friend updated the news feed to explain that there was a group of them which makes it clearer that the nose breaker was doing it for significance, connection, variation backed up with certainty. He was with his friends who all are after a 'rush' so they are seeking a target to bully. He broke the nose because it makes him feel significant because he is inflicting pain on this man. He is certain that this man will not retaliate because the nose breaker has four other nose breakers with him. He is getting connection with his friends because he is showing them how significant he is and they are all sharing the situation together. They are all experiencing great variation because it is uncertain what is going to happen - it's a rush.
"well, he was sat there with two girls, a chav was in the doorway an shouted to him moosh are u licking that? pointing at the girl.. :-/ then he said no.. then the guy was like are u getting moufy!! came in with 2 more of the guys.. one of them said il snap ur jore moosh.. then he kinda gave the impression as if to say pfft kewl whatever.. so the ... See Moreguy walked up an smacked him.. there was loadsa blood an his nose was really snapped up."
The news feed was updated to explain the situation in more detail. The man in the subway was with two girls. The nose breaker creates a situation where he can connect with this man and two girls. Now the nose breaker then breaks a nose because it gives him a feeling of being 'hard' in front of the girls and his mates. It excites him and because he is with his mates he is certain he won't experience any painful consequences.
"the girl called 999 an they said just walk to the hospital.. :-/ they also said naa if the guys had gone they wudnt send the police.. actual rediculous..."
Then the group left before they could be in any possibility of any negative consequences.
Other people fulfill the same needs by saving a life, helping the needed, achieving, or playing competitive games. It all depends on how you have learned to meet your needs.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Leadership Psychology
"Usually after great pain people begin to make new choices. People start to appreciate things they take for granted like great freedoms. This can truly serve. Its up to us whether it does or not. You must make a vision of something greater. See it as it is then see it better than it is. Then make it the way you now see it. That what a leader does they create a vision for more.
Think about all the people right now that are laughing. If you could absorb all their laughter in your body. All over the earth there are people laughing right now. All over the world right now there are people kissing. Right now. All over the world, if your going to absorb all the pain you may as well take up all of humanities love too. Because otherwise your not picking up balance.
If you look for the good its always there. Whats wrong is always available and so it whats right. Right now there are children being born into a world where they will be loved. Right now there are people being saved in hospitals all across this country. Right now there are people's lives that are being turned around by people who care. Everywhere in this moment life is brewing and growing and expanding all over this earth. Life always moves forward, it never moves backward. Children are laughing, people are achieving."
Anthony Robbins
Think about all the people right now that are laughing. If you could absorb all their laughter in your body. All over the earth there are people laughing right now. All over the world right now there are people kissing. Right now. All over the world, if your going to absorb all the pain you may as well take up all of humanities love too. Because otherwise your not picking up balance.
If you look for the good its always there. Whats wrong is always available and so it whats right. Right now there are children being born into a world where they will be loved. Right now there are people being saved in hospitals all across this country. Right now there are people's lives that are being turned around by people who care. Everywhere in this moment life is brewing and growing and expanding all over this earth. Life always moves forward, it never moves backward. Children are laughing, people are achieving."
Anthony Robbins
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Outstanding
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])
Paraphrase;
"What stops us from going the great distance is our fear. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. “Who am I to be great, powerful and proud” you ask? Who are you not to be? Playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others around you don't feel insecure. We are all meant to shine as children. Its not just in some of us, its in everyone of us. As we let our own light shine we unconsciously give others the permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, so are they."
Paraphrase;
"What stops us from going the great distance is our fear. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. “Who am I to be great, powerful and proud” you ask? Who are you not to be? Playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others around you don't feel insecure. We are all meant to shine as children. Its not just in some of us, its in everyone of us. As we let our own light shine we unconsciously give others the permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, so are they."
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Psycho Cybernetics and Law Of Attration
Is it risky using the term 'law of attraction' in a context that is based on psycho-cybernetics? I believe it fits in perfect because they are almost the same thing. Although the term 'law of attraction' has built up so many connotations based on mainstream stigma, it is the preferred term to be used in explaining manifestation. I have read a fair bit on the internet of what people have to say about 'the law of attraction' (LOA) and it almost seems like people have a whole chunk - another half to learn about manifesting. The successful practitioners of LOA have a big difference in their psychology than the failures. Some people refer to using the LOA to 'attract weight loss' for example. They are actually using psycho-cybernetics rather than LOA to loose the weight. LOA is attracting something in from the environment and psycho-cybernetics is changing the environment through the self. They both have the same principles and techniques the only difference is the intention of the desire. Do you want to manifest something through you into reality or do you want to manifest something to you in reality? This is the difference between psycho-cybernetics and LOA but they work together to be a part of the same process. The process is manifestation. I believe a lot of people are stuck in their LOA practice because they don't know about psycho-cybernetics.
Maxwell Maltz the author of psycho-cybernetics explains we have a self image that keeps our behavior consistent. Any deviations are soon snapped back home to the self image. Cybernetics means in Greek "the art of steering" or taking a course of action to attain a goal. Maltz describes the mind as being a goal oriented mechanism. When a goal is set into the mind is stays on course to attain that goal. Anything that is inconsistent with that goal is registered as negative feedback. The goal that is set into the mind through one's life is called the self image.
The self image is the self conditioned goal to steer towards through life. If you see yourself as an overweight person then you are going to act like an overweight person. This is because your mind is a goal oriented mechanism and anything that is set into it is processed. Unconsciously set into your mind that you are an overweight person then your mind will steer in that direction. If then you do loose weight then that is seen by the mind as being inconsistent with being over weight so you will go back to acting like an over weight person and again become over weight. If you loose the weight while shifting your self image to being a healthy weight then your mind will steer that way and keep you consistent there. Do you know someone who sets a goal, does well then sabotages their success? This is called the "snap back" affect. It is because this person's goal is inconsistent with their unconscious self image. They do not identify or believe they are successful so they sabotage to be comfortable in their status they have always been. In a way the mind is a homeostatic mechanism. It maintains what is perceived as true. Although you may like or dislike yourself it is what you believe to be true about yourself - that is why it is consistent.
In an illustration of how this subject can be explained is through an analogy of hypnotherapy. Our mind has two parts to it. The conscious and the unconscious. The conscious is the awake, aware, experiencing, deciding, directing part of the mind. The unconscious is the mechanical side that works automatically, intuitively, and spontaneously. The unconscious mind stores all your memories and beliefs which come together to create the self image. When a stage hypnotist puts a patient in a trance the hypnotist has a direct link to the unconscious. The hypnotist tells the subject that they are weak and have no power to lift a pencil. A pencil is placed before them and they can not pick it up. The muscles are straining and the effort is obvious but the suggestion from the hypnotist makes it impossible for the subject to pick it up. If you think of this suggestion as being a 'goal' for the unconscious mind (which is a goal oriented mechanism) then it becomes obvious that the mind process the 'goal.' On the other hand if the hypnotist tells the subject that they are very strong and tells them that they can pick up anything, even the weights that lay before them. They lift up the weights that they had never lifted before in their life.
So taking this illustration of a hypnotist telling people what they can or can't do on stage is very true in people's lives. When you or anybody else says you can or can't do something then if you believe it, that is going to be true for you. If you think you are unsuccessful then that is the hypnosis of your self image. The same if you believe you are successful, loving, good, bad, smart, weak, confident, fit, est. You are what you have been made to believe by yourself or others.
So setting out to manifest a goal would be hard if it conflicts with the self image. Goals are filtered through the self image and all inconsistencies are rejected or altered. This is why people teach you to do things bit by bit or start small then go big. When you make small improvements and achieve small goals, you can then go onto bigger goals incrementally. They are not just talking about how much you have learned but how much you believe you can do. When achieving more and more you are validating to yourself that you can do more and more. This validation forms a stronger and stronger belief which gets reinforced over and over again. This belief becomes a part of your self image because now you have validation that you can do it and have many experience references to back it up. For example, if you believe you are a failure it could be because you have 'failed' over and over again so now you are hypnotized to act like a failure. Contrastingly if you have succeeded repeatedly then you may believe you are a success - so you will act like a success. Your references may not be from experience rather from what other people may have said to you. The good news is that you can change your self image and you do not need references from experience or from other people. Change comes from your ability to create your own beliefs and turn them into an unconscious truth.
Habits are usually great examples of personal change. Habits are things you have done repeatedly which now have become automatic and second nature. They are patterned thoughts, feelings or actions that have been conditioned into the mind and nervous system. You need habits into order to do things automatically. Life would be so hard if we consciously had to things all the time. Habits build our self image which is who we are. Your self image is a habitual way of being. From your beliefs you have thought, felt, and acted in a way so many times it has turned automatic. If you think, feel, act outside of your habitual ways, you will eventually "snap back." So going for a goal that goes outside your habitual mindset will be rejected or altered. Until you change what you habitually think, feel, and act like, you will continue to be the same.
There are many methods for changing, breaking, making new habits. The most popular method is visualization. This method is also popular in the law of attraction practice. Visualize having new habits such as being loving will have to include mentally rehearsing yourself being loving. Repeating the visualization over and over conditions it into the mind and nervous system. Soon enough it becomes a new habitual way of being. The more it is rehearsed and acted upon the more it is conditioned in.
The interesting thing is that mentally rehearsing the outcome also activates the law of attraction. When your visualization is accepted by the unconscious and the belief is potent enough it works out a way. The amount of certainty that is applied into the visualization empowers the outcome. When the visualization becomes so real in the mind that it feels it has already manifested then that is when you soon see the outcome in reality. When mental rehearsal becomes so clear, vivid, powerful, and certain in the mind you feel as if it has already happened. The mind attracts the people, circumstances and things to achieve that goal. You also start acting in a way that brings the goal into reality. Your unconscious mind spontaneously and miraculously manifests it.
I believe we can not fully explain how it works consciously but the point is that it works. It does take a while of work and practice to have it be effective but the results are worth it!
I will write more about this later!
Love Seb
Maxwell Maltz the author of psycho-cybernetics explains we have a self image that keeps our behavior consistent. Any deviations are soon snapped back home to the self image. Cybernetics means in Greek "the art of steering" or taking a course of action to attain a goal. Maltz describes the mind as being a goal oriented mechanism. When a goal is set into the mind is stays on course to attain that goal. Anything that is inconsistent with that goal is registered as negative feedback. The goal that is set into the mind through one's life is called the self image.
The self image is the self conditioned goal to steer towards through life. If you see yourself as an overweight person then you are going to act like an overweight person. This is because your mind is a goal oriented mechanism and anything that is set into it is processed. Unconsciously set into your mind that you are an overweight person then your mind will steer in that direction. If then you do loose weight then that is seen by the mind as being inconsistent with being over weight so you will go back to acting like an over weight person and again become over weight. If you loose the weight while shifting your self image to being a healthy weight then your mind will steer that way and keep you consistent there. Do you know someone who sets a goal, does well then sabotages their success? This is called the "snap back" affect. It is because this person's goal is inconsistent with their unconscious self image. They do not identify or believe they are successful so they sabotage to be comfortable in their status they have always been. In a way the mind is a homeostatic mechanism. It maintains what is perceived as true. Although you may like or dislike yourself it is what you believe to be true about yourself - that is why it is consistent.
In an illustration of how this subject can be explained is through an analogy of hypnotherapy. Our mind has two parts to it. The conscious and the unconscious. The conscious is the awake, aware, experiencing, deciding, directing part of the mind. The unconscious is the mechanical side that works automatically, intuitively, and spontaneously. The unconscious mind stores all your memories and beliefs which come together to create the self image. When a stage hypnotist puts a patient in a trance the hypnotist has a direct link to the unconscious. The hypnotist tells the subject that they are weak and have no power to lift a pencil. A pencil is placed before them and they can not pick it up. The muscles are straining and the effort is obvious but the suggestion from the hypnotist makes it impossible for the subject to pick it up. If you think of this suggestion as being a 'goal' for the unconscious mind (which is a goal oriented mechanism) then it becomes obvious that the mind process the 'goal.' On the other hand if the hypnotist tells the subject that they are very strong and tells them that they can pick up anything, even the weights that lay before them. They lift up the weights that they had never lifted before in their life.
So taking this illustration of a hypnotist telling people what they can or can't do on stage is very true in people's lives. When you or anybody else says you can or can't do something then if you believe it, that is going to be true for you. If you think you are unsuccessful then that is the hypnosis of your self image. The same if you believe you are successful, loving, good, bad, smart, weak, confident, fit, est. You are what you have been made to believe by yourself or others.
So setting out to manifest a goal would be hard if it conflicts with the self image. Goals are filtered through the self image and all inconsistencies are rejected or altered. This is why people teach you to do things bit by bit or start small then go big. When you make small improvements and achieve small goals, you can then go onto bigger goals incrementally. They are not just talking about how much you have learned but how much you believe you can do. When achieving more and more you are validating to yourself that you can do more and more. This validation forms a stronger and stronger belief which gets reinforced over and over again. This belief becomes a part of your self image because now you have validation that you can do it and have many experience references to back it up. For example, if you believe you are a failure it could be because you have 'failed' over and over again so now you are hypnotized to act like a failure. Contrastingly if you have succeeded repeatedly then you may believe you are a success - so you will act like a success. Your references may not be from experience rather from what other people may have said to you. The good news is that you can change your self image and you do not need references from experience or from other people. Change comes from your ability to create your own beliefs and turn them into an unconscious truth.
Habits are usually great examples of personal change. Habits are things you have done repeatedly which now have become automatic and second nature. They are patterned thoughts, feelings or actions that have been conditioned into the mind and nervous system. You need habits into order to do things automatically. Life would be so hard if we consciously had to things all the time. Habits build our self image which is who we are. Your self image is a habitual way of being. From your beliefs you have thought, felt, and acted in a way so many times it has turned automatic. If you think, feel, act outside of your habitual ways, you will eventually "snap back." So going for a goal that goes outside your habitual mindset will be rejected or altered. Until you change what you habitually think, feel, and act like, you will continue to be the same.
There are many methods for changing, breaking, making new habits. The most popular method is visualization. This method is also popular in the law of attraction practice. Visualize having new habits such as being loving will have to include mentally rehearsing yourself being loving. Repeating the visualization over and over conditions it into the mind and nervous system. Soon enough it becomes a new habitual way of being. The more it is rehearsed and acted upon the more it is conditioned in.
The interesting thing is that mentally rehearsing the outcome also activates the law of attraction. When your visualization is accepted by the unconscious and the belief is potent enough it works out a way. The amount of certainty that is applied into the visualization empowers the outcome. When the visualization becomes so real in the mind that it feels it has already manifested then that is when you soon see the outcome in reality. When mental rehearsal becomes so clear, vivid, powerful, and certain in the mind you feel as if it has already happened. The mind attracts the people, circumstances and things to achieve that goal. You also start acting in a way that brings the goal into reality. Your unconscious mind spontaneously and miraculously manifests it.
I believe we can not fully explain how it works consciously but the point is that it works. It does take a while of work and practice to have it be effective but the results are worth it!
I will write more about this later!
Love Seb
Monday, 5 April 2010
Rules Of The Game
My study at the moment is to integrate all the teachings I have learned and apply them into a model that is easy to understand. The main area of study is belief systems and their affects on behavior and reality. Beliefs are the background to all teachings that have evolved from psycho cybernetics. Beyond psycho cybernetics there is the study of manifestation or 'law of attraction'. In the end they all revert back to belief. In many teachings there are lots of different words from different teachers meaning the same thing. This is only because they speak in different contexts and use different connotations. For example a belief system can be called your mental paradigm, map of the mind, blueprint, self image, or sometimes mental programming. Belief manipulation can also be described as hypnosis or placebo effect. They refer to the same thing but in different contexts. I am going to be talking about beliefs in the context of rules and your belief system being your rule system. I do this to deliver the easiest way to explain your mind and how it works in an approach to change you and your environment.
Life is a game without rules but everybody has their own rules on how to play the game. Change the rules, change the game.
There are billions of different people in this world. Find the most contrasting couple of people in the world and their differences lays in their psychology. Psychology consists of so many things but it mostly consists of the rule system/belief system. What a person can or can't do or will or won't do is dependent on their rules system. People see, feel, and act upon the world through their rules. So what are these rules I am talking about? These rules are the way you perceive and act in your environment. You have rules in the way you perceive the environment and the circumstances in it. You also have rules in the way to act or react in your environment. Your success and failure is due to the conscious and unconscious rules you have. As I say - life is a game without rules but we create rules in our mind to survive. We started creating rules from day one and continue to everyday from then to distinguish this mysterious and uncertain life. The question is are the rules in your game empowering or dis-empowering?
All of your rules come from your own evaluations of life experiences or other people's. The rules you have are affecting you depending on the level in which believe them. Your rules/beliefs are backed up by references. There must be a reason for any rule. If you set a goal to achieve something but you have a lot of trouble achieving it, it will be because you have a other rules that conflict with the achievement of the goal. For example if your goal was to achieve greater financial abundance but you have rules like 'obtaining more finance means hard work' and 'hard work is painful' then your progression will be stunted. These rules are backed up by references - until you have changed or attained new references your going to be stuck. Find references to back up a new rule that says 'obtaining more finance will be exciting.' Search for new references or create them. To think of new rules is one things but to believe them is another. What happens when you think of a new rule that will empower your attainment of your goal but you don't believe it? It's awareness of how your rules shape you, and the ability to choose rules and believe in them because you know they will empower you.
Hypnosis is a clear illustration of manipulating rules. When in a trance the hypnotist says to the client "you enjoy your work. You love the experience work gives you and you find ways to make it better." The mind accepts this rule and believes it. You act the way you think. Your thinking is programed by your rules.
Note: real change in behavour does not just come from believing in it but linking the belief to fulfil a need (human need psychology). Everybody does things for a reason, six actually. You do something because you believe it will meet one or more of your needs. Change your behavour by believing your change and linking it to fulfil multiple needs.
Love in everybody,
Seb
Life is a game without rules but everybody has their own rules on how to play the game. Change the rules, change the game.
There are billions of different people in this world. Find the most contrasting couple of people in the world and their differences lays in their psychology. Psychology consists of so many things but it mostly consists of the rule system/belief system. What a person can or can't do or will or won't do is dependent on their rules system. People see, feel, and act upon the world through their rules. So what are these rules I am talking about? These rules are the way you perceive and act in your environment. You have rules in the way you perceive the environment and the circumstances in it. You also have rules in the way to act or react in your environment. Your success and failure is due to the conscious and unconscious rules you have. As I say - life is a game without rules but we create rules in our mind to survive. We started creating rules from day one and continue to everyday from then to distinguish this mysterious and uncertain life. The question is are the rules in your game empowering or dis-empowering?
All of your rules come from your own evaluations of life experiences or other people's. The rules you have are affecting you depending on the level in which believe them. Your rules/beliefs are backed up by references. There must be a reason for any rule. If you set a goal to achieve something but you have a lot of trouble achieving it, it will be because you have a other rules that conflict with the achievement of the goal. For example if your goal was to achieve greater financial abundance but you have rules like 'obtaining more finance means hard work' and 'hard work is painful' then your progression will be stunted. These rules are backed up by references - until you have changed or attained new references your going to be stuck. Find references to back up a new rule that says 'obtaining more finance will be exciting.' Search for new references or create them. To think of new rules is one things but to believe them is another. What happens when you think of a new rule that will empower your attainment of your goal but you don't believe it? It's awareness of how your rules shape you, and the ability to choose rules and believe in them because you know they will empower you.
Hypnosis is a clear illustration of manipulating rules. When in a trance the hypnotist says to the client "you enjoy your work. You love the experience work gives you and you find ways to make it better." The mind accepts this rule and believes it. You act the way you think. Your thinking is programed by your rules.
Note: real change in behavour does not just come from believing in it but linking the belief to fulfil a need (human need psychology). Everybody does things for a reason, six actually. You do something because you believe it will meet one or more of your needs. Change your behavour by believing your change and linking it to fulfil multiple needs.
Love in everybody,
Seb
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Personal Paradigms
In Lynne's books she talks about beliefs being vital to all success in intentions. I have found this to be very true in my experiences. I have found the performance and effect of my intentions are directly in relationship to my beliefs. When you have set out with a strong intention with a lot of belief and power and within a week it has withered away, it is due to the initial belief withering away and returning to a dis-empowered paradigm.
Our paradigm is our perception or mental map of reality. For our mind to make sense of what our senses are telling us about the external world, the mind must make a mental map to relate to. This mental map is usually referred to as our personal paradigm. The brain makes stimulus responses and automatic patterns to the events in our day to day lives. This unconscious act is the blueprint or mental map of which our attitude or behaviors arrive from.
From your first day as a baby you started to create and develop your map of reality. The map entails what things mean and what you should do in reaction. You experienced things and made judgments on whether something was safe or not. Babies have a fresh and new map of reality and that is why they are so curious. Curiosity is the instinct to develop your map of reality. So babies go ahead and do things that are potentially dangerous. Until they realize that doing some things mean pain an other things mean pleasure they will venture to find out. For example; if every time a baby touched the radiator and experienced pain from the heat, they would associate the radiator to pain. If the baby really enjoys fruit every time they eat it, the baby will associate pleasure to fruit. So the baby has a more developed map of what means pain and what means pleasure. Human instinct is always to go towards some kind of emotion that is pleasurable. Emotions that could come from comfort, peace, intimacy, significance, or contribution. This could be someone's idea of pleasurable emotions, but they could be very difference to someone else. Someone else could value the emotions that come from adventure, passion, romance, and creativity. These values are learned from pain-pleasure experiences the person has gone through. The same is for negative emotions. People have emotions they avoid at any cost. This drive to avoid negative or painful emotions is more dominant than the valued pleasurable emotions. This is due to human instinct. This is what causes behavioral complexes.
Our paradigm of the world is subjective due to the vast experiences that have shaped it. Your sensory experience of the world is also subjective. Our world is really not what we think it is through our senses. Your experience of the world is a thought based hologram your subconscious has produced from the electronic signals from your senses. So what you are experiencing right now is the product of your senses - not the product of objective reality. Light, sound, taste, smell, and touch are the five subjective interpretations that are best for our human experience to navigate around the world. In actual reality there is no such thing as light, or sound. They only exist in the mind of the observer. George Berkeley the Irish philosopher and his famous riddle expresses this concept well. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" My first answer to that was "yes, because when a tree falls it causes a lot of kinetic energy which vibrates through the forest and that is called sound. So it does make a sound." What I didn't realize is that sound a sensory experience of an observer and if the observer is not present then when the tree falls there is no sound to be produced in the mind of the observer. There is only kinetic energy in reality. With no observer in the forest the tree will fall silently. Reality is a senseless world. Our experience makes it a sensory one.
What this means for us is that our paradigms of the world are not objective but rather very subjective. This is great because it means we can see reality as a beautiful one if we had a map that supported that. Because of cultural conditioning this is not common. People's paradigms are based on avoiding pain. Western cultural conformity supplies a level of comfort that many people settle for because it means being safe from pain. This is the paradox of our western lives because we want to experience more and to see the world as a mysterious, magical, and beautiful place (well.... those are my values) but the comfortable life keeps you from taking the risk to go outside the comfort zone.
In order to improve the quality of your life and the people's around you - you must change the blueprint of your mind - your personal paradigm. Remember your paradigm is your map of reality and your map of reality determines the way you perceive and react to reality. The way Stephen Covey explains it;
"The most common way to understand paradigms is to see them as maps. We know that the map is not the territory. A map is simply just an explanation of aspects of the territory. That is exactly what a paradigm is - it's a theory, an explanation, or a model of something else. For instance if you wanted to arrive somewhere is central Chicago, a street map of the city would be a great help to you in reaching your destination. But suppose you were given the wrong map. Through a printing error the map labeled Chicago was actually a map of Detroit. Can you imagine the frustration, the ineffectiveness of trying to arrive at your destination? You might try to work on your behavior, you would try harder, you would be more diligent, you'll double your speed but your efforts will only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster. You might even work on your attitude, you might think more positively. You still wouldn't get to the right place but perhaps you wouldn't care. Your attitude would be so positive you would be happy and contented wherever you were. The point is you'll still be lost."
So what is your mental map of reality made of? It is made of beliefs and values that come from your past experiences and judgments. Your beliefs can empower or dis-empower your intentions. If you set your intention to lower the crime rate by 30% (increase peace by 30%) in your community but you don't believe in the power of intention, then it is very unlikely you will be very effective. So your intentions have requirements on the behalf of your belief system. Your effectiveness of intention is dependent on your level of belief that intention works and you are doing it right.
Our paradigm is our perception or mental map of reality. For our mind to make sense of what our senses are telling us about the external world, the mind must make a mental map to relate to. This mental map is usually referred to as our personal paradigm. The brain makes stimulus responses and automatic patterns to the events in our day to day lives. This unconscious act is the blueprint or mental map of which our attitude or behaviors arrive from.
From your first day as a baby you started to create and develop your map of reality. The map entails what things mean and what you should do in reaction. You experienced things and made judgments on whether something was safe or not. Babies have a fresh and new map of reality and that is why they are so curious. Curiosity is the instinct to develop your map of reality. So babies go ahead and do things that are potentially dangerous. Until they realize that doing some things mean pain an other things mean pleasure they will venture to find out. For example; if every time a baby touched the radiator and experienced pain from the heat, they would associate the radiator to pain. If the baby really enjoys fruit every time they eat it, the baby will associate pleasure to fruit. So the baby has a more developed map of what means pain and what means pleasure. Human instinct is always to go towards some kind of emotion that is pleasurable. Emotions that could come from comfort, peace, intimacy, significance, or contribution. This could be someone's idea of pleasurable emotions, but they could be very difference to someone else. Someone else could value the emotions that come from adventure, passion, romance, and creativity. These values are learned from pain-pleasure experiences the person has gone through. The same is for negative emotions. People have emotions they avoid at any cost. This drive to avoid negative or painful emotions is more dominant than the valued pleasurable emotions. This is due to human instinct. This is what causes behavioral complexes.
Our paradigm of the world is subjective due to the vast experiences that have shaped it. Your sensory experience of the world is also subjective. Our world is really not what we think it is through our senses. Your experience of the world is a thought based hologram your subconscious has produced from the electronic signals from your senses. So what you are experiencing right now is the product of your senses - not the product of objective reality. Light, sound, taste, smell, and touch are the five subjective interpretations that are best for our human experience to navigate around the world. In actual reality there is no such thing as light, or sound. They only exist in the mind of the observer. George Berkeley the Irish philosopher and his famous riddle expresses this concept well. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" My first answer to that was "yes, because when a tree falls it causes a lot of kinetic energy which vibrates through the forest and that is called sound. So it does make a sound." What I didn't realize is that sound a sensory experience of an observer and if the observer is not present then when the tree falls there is no sound to be produced in the mind of the observer. There is only kinetic energy in reality. With no observer in the forest the tree will fall silently. Reality is a senseless world. Our experience makes it a sensory one.
What this means for us is that our paradigms of the world are not objective but rather very subjective. This is great because it means we can see reality as a beautiful one if we had a map that supported that. Because of cultural conditioning this is not common. People's paradigms are based on avoiding pain. Western cultural conformity supplies a level of comfort that many people settle for because it means being safe from pain. This is the paradox of our western lives because we want to experience more and to see the world as a mysterious, magical, and beautiful place (well.... those are my values) but the comfortable life keeps you from taking the risk to go outside the comfort zone.
In order to improve the quality of your life and the people's around you - you must change the blueprint of your mind - your personal paradigm. Remember your paradigm is your map of reality and your map of reality determines the way you perceive and react to reality. The way Stephen Covey explains it;
"The most common way to understand paradigms is to see them as maps. We know that the map is not the territory. A map is simply just an explanation of aspects of the territory. That is exactly what a paradigm is - it's a theory, an explanation, or a model of something else. For instance if you wanted to arrive somewhere is central Chicago, a street map of the city would be a great help to you in reaching your destination. But suppose you were given the wrong map. Through a printing error the map labeled Chicago was actually a map of Detroit. Can you imagine the frustration, the ineffectiveness of trying to arrive at your destination? You might try to work on your behavior, you would try harder, you would be more diligent, you'll double your speed but your efforts will only succeed in getting you to the wrong place faster. You might even work on your attitude, you might think more positively. You still wouldn't get to the right place but perhaps you wouldn't care. Your attitude would be so positive you would be happy and contented wherever you were. The point is you'll still be lost."
So what is your mental map of reality made of? It is made of beliefs and values that come from your past experiences and judgments. Your beliefs can empower or dis-empower your intentions. If you set your intention to lower the crime rate by 30% (increase peace by 30%) in your community but you don't believe in the power of intention, then it is very unlikely you will be very effective. So your intentions have requirements on the behalf of your belief system. Your effectiveness of intention is dependent on your level of belief that intention works and you are doing it right.
The plecebo effect
In Living With Intention Lynne talks about the placebo effect. This is a very popular term to describe the mind-body connection. When the mind believes at a deep level that the body is healed the body mimics or manifests that belief. It has been shown in so many studies that if the subconscious mind believes that the body is ill or well then that will be the result. Shamanism involves going massive elaborate rituals to eventually create a placebo effect in the patient's mind. When the patient has a great expectation that they will be healed or they already have been, then the body mimics that belief. It has been shown from research that the placebo effect works 30 to 70 per cent of the time (including surgery). This means that no less than 30 per cent of the time the magic of medicine is actually due to the effect of the patients mind. There are many examples of this in Living With Intention but you can find so many books on it. Belief is everything when it comes to healing. Bernie Siegel did some research on people with multiple personality disorders and what they found was that the potency of these people's beliefs changed every system in their body. Their eye colors changed as their personality changed. Markings on their bodies would appear and disappear. Diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure would come and go depending on their belief of which personality they were. These are some remarkable studies but it shows the colossal affect the mind can have on the body. The opposite of placebo is the nocebo effect - to injure the self with powerful belief. The ancient aborigines could use the power of belief to kill of their rejected tribe members. They would curse them with a ritual called 'pointing the bone' which involves the tribe member pointing the bone of death at the rejected tribe member. This extreme rejection and conviction of death leads the outcast to die due to the psychological certainty that they had been cursed. They die with no physical attacks.
In a way this happens when doctors diagnose a patient with their disease. The level of the patient's trust for the doctor leaves the patient to believe anything the doctor says. It is well known that when doctors give a diagnosis the patient's subconscious mind believes them and manifests the symptoms. Medical researchers even have to be careful of the placebo effect because when they research too much into a disease they to start manifesting the symptoms. The mind-body connection is so integrated it would be like trying to separate the words from a page of a book to realize that they work together to create the reading experience. Lynne expresses her experience with her mother in law when they went to visit two doctors. The first a medical doctor who diagnosed her mother in law with severe breast cancer and she did not have much longer to live. They went to the second doctor who was an alternative doctor and he positively said that he can handle it. After some work and some vitamin c doses her mind was back on track with health and her mind started to manifesting healing due to the new set of beliefs. She healed and reported back to the first doctor and he said it was a miracle.
A belief is a feeling of certainty about what something means. If you are certain that you are dying from cancer then that belief will govern the way you feel, think, and behave. After some time the body will manifest this belief. The body will also manifest the process of healing. This way of healing is not is not positive thinking because positive thinking involves trying to think in a way that your mind usually conflicts with. If you are a cancer patient and you try to think positively with the conviction that you are dying then that is not going to do any good. To program your mind to believe the body has healed is vital, then positive thinking will not be necessary.
Disease can be manifested in many ways but the healing process is always the same. Your subconscious mind does no decision making, it is solely a mechanical mechanism. The subconscious mind is also in every cell of your body. Your body is your subconscious mind so if you embed a deep intention of healing then the subconscious will process that.
In a way this happens when doctors diagnose a patient with their disease. The level of the patient's trust for the doctor leaves the patient to believe anything the doctor says. It is well known that when doctors give a diagnosis the patient's subconscious mind believes them and manifests the symptoms. Medical researchers even have to be careful of the placebo effect because when they research too much into a disease they to start manifesting the symptoms. The mind-body connection is so integrated it would be like trying to separate the words from a page of a book to realize that they work together to create the reading experience. Lynne expresses her experience with her mother in law when they went to visit two doctors. The first a medical doctor who diagnosed her mother in law with severe breast cancer and she did not have much longer to live. They went to the second doctor who was an alternative doctor and he positively said that he can handle it. After some work and some vitamin c doses her mind was back on track with health and her mind started to manifesting healing due to the new set of beliefs. She healed and reported back to the first doctor and he said it was a miracle.
A belief is a feeling of certainty about what something means. If you are certain that you are dying from cancer then that belief will govern the way you feel, think, and behave. After some time the body will manifest this belief. The body will also manifest the process of healing. This way of healing is not is not positive thinking because positive thinking involves trying to think in a way that your mind usually conflicts with. If you are a cancer patient and you try to think positively with the conviction that you are dying then that is not going to do any good. To program your mind to believe the body has healed is vital, then positive thinking will not be necessary.
Disease can be manifested in many ways but the healing process is always the same. Your subconscious mind does no decision making, it is solely a mechanical mechanism. The subconscious mind is also in every cell of your body. Your body is your subconscious mind so if you embed a deep intention of healing then the subconscious will process that.
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