THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Coaching Videos & Tips - May 5 2022 No. 755

 

 

 

Are you regularly traveling in your mind to some imaginary foreign land? You'll understand the question when yo uget right to the end of this week's short video!!

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

In everyday adult live, we encounter less-than-ideal situations - that is the stuff of everyday life. But, note that I did not say that we experience these situations. Normally, we don't.

Normally (and that's a very bad word indeed!) we experience nothing - we only think we do. In today's video, I talk about people or situations that give rise to "states of mind" that I all-too-often talk about with clients and Online Program Owners: frustration, annoyance, resentment, anger.

However, the actual cognitive fact of the matter is that, when we encounter such a situation, we tend to react - often under some perceived pressure - to what's happening and, when we do that, we don't experience the reality of what's happening, we re-experience some event in our own personal ancient history that made us feel that way for the first time.

As I mention in this week's podcast, unless we take the only step on the road to awareness (the one that I mention in this week's Quick Tip), we learn absolutely nothing after the age of 12 or 13. We just keep reliving what was imprinted on our minds before that watershed in our personal development.

What's the upshot of all this? Well, for starters, most of which we think that we're experiencing isn't real! Worse than that, these "imaginary experiences" teach us that life is a string of repetitive self-fulfilling propechies which, by the way, it's bound to be if we keep allowing our minds keep paying attention to repetitive self-fulfilling thoughts.

Worst of all, these "imaginary experiences" blind us to the reality of the world in which we live. A world replete with opportunities that will enable us - you and me both! - to move effortlessly forward into the life that we would dearly love to live... now.