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Athletes, meaning anyone (dancers, jockeys, or decathlon competitors) who trains their bodies to
excellence, usually know more about how to manage their minds than most PhDs. A sharp computer
programmer is more likely to understand the principles of mind function than an MD.
Why?
Three reasons come to mind.
The first reason is that we tend regard the brain and the mind as the same thing, and they are not. We
have accumulated too much scientific evidence to the contrary. That three pound lump of fat behind your
eyes does not store all your memories or generate all your thoughts and feelings.
Before you balk, take the short cut… think hunger, thirst, sex... Right You got it.
Every thought makes changes in the chemistry of your cells, and the chemical changes in your cells
influence your thoughts. The MIND, as we conceive it, is everywhere. It's a part of each of the trillion cells
in your body.
If you want living (pun intended) examples, do an Internet search on "organ transplants and cellular
memories" or "heart transplant memories". You'll read some fascinating stories about people who
discovered they acquired habits and memories from the donor along with the heart or liver.
The second reason is that we are just BEGINNING to get a real picture of how the living mind/body
works. Technology for analyzing what happens when we do, think, and feel is brand new. Until about 30
years ago, almost everything we knew about the human brain was assumed from experiments on
animals. Most of our information was acquired by messing something up in a rodent brain and observing
the results. Human brains (except for lobotomies or other disease/accident treatment experiments) were
only examined (officially, at least) after the owners were dead.
The third reason is that the people who are MOST interested in learning how YOUR mind works are
interested in manipulating YOUR behavior for THEIR profit. If you remain ignorant of how to effectively
manage your own mind, they won’t be the least bit upset. It's no accident that a lot of today's RESEARCH
BUCKS are going into "persuasion techniques". But don’t worry. You will learn abut them first hand just as
fast as they can get them out to you… through your television… by way of the commercials.
MIND SELF-MANAGEMENT should be taught in first grade, but it's not. We teach first-graders to do, think,
and feel WHAT we adults want them to do, think, and feel, not HOW to use their minds to the best
advantage.
In all fairness, we only are doing what was done to us: We teach creativity right out of our children by
rewarding them for sopping up and spitting out what WE want them to know. Fresh ideas, creativity and
intuition are choked off and weeded out. By third grade, discipline (from disciple, meaning pupil) becomes
associated with pain and learning with boredom.
Athletes escape this process by taking a parallel road without all the negative associations. It’s almost
impossible to be physically active and bored or depressed. (Chemicals secreted from the cells of a physically
active body are mood elevators superior to any anti-depressant on the market.)
What feels good, we do more of. When we do more of something, we get better at it. When we get
good, it's natural to want to improve even more, be the best, and when athletes start comparing notes
about what works and what doesn't, they discover how controlling their minds give them control of their
bodies.
The rest of us do this hit-or-miss thing. We’re hard-wired to watch others, analyze their patterns of
behavior, and mimic them, so we learn almost everything from that process. We are brainwashed
(hypnotized – the natural state of children under eight is trance-like susceptibility) by entertainment,
educators, religious leaders, and parents - who often say one thing and act differently. We tend to either
do as they do or exactly the opposite.
As a result, we feel compelled to do “X” and haven’t a clue as to why. To justify it, we invent a reason
(rationalize). Once we tell the “reason” to anyone, even ourselves, we feel obligated to repeat the
behavior (we have to be CONSISTENT). Repeated often enough, the action/reason becomes a belief,
and… WA-LA… we now own a conviction that we feel obligated to defend … to the death? Well, maybe
not, but often to the divorce.
Then we wonder why some of us undermine ourselves with stunning consistency.
We are able to finish the sentences of our boss/spouse/buddy, but we get hopelessly confused by our
own behavior. We get so caught up in our conscious-mind shoulds, woulds, ifs, and buts that we find it
almost impossible to be objective monitors of our own thinking. We choose to believe our conscious mind
determines our actions when 95% (or more) of what we do is determined by the subconscious mind,
the keeper of our habits, beliefs, memories, and a bratty little kid who resents rules and authority
If you want to know what you really think about things, look at what you do, where you work, what
you wear, who you live with, what you drive. You are living what you believe subconsciously. You
created your health. You created your life. You are as happy as you choose to be. You are as
successful as you choose to be.
You ARE who you chose to be.
If you wanted things to be different than they are, they would be. If you want to change, you have to
start from here.
If you want to blame anyone else or look for a solution outside your skin, unless you are seeking
counseling on changing YOUR actions or thinking, you are wasting your time and money. Nobody and
nothing changes you but you. You are in charge. You run the show. If you choose to abdicate to someone
or something else, that’s your privilege. However, you are STILL responsible for the outcome. That’s it in
a nutshell.
You are who YOU chose to be.
excellence, usually know more about how to manage their minds than most PhDs. A sharp computer
programmer is more likely to understand the principles of mind function than an MD.
Why?
Three reasons come to mind.
The first reason is that we tend regard the brain and the mind as the same thing, and they are not. We
have accumulated too much scientific evidence to the contrary. That three pound lump of fat behind your
eyes does not store all your memories or generate all your thoughts and feelings.
Before you balk, take the short cut… think hunger, thirst, sex... Right You got it.
Every thought makes changes in the chemistry of your cells, and the chemical changes in your cells
influence your thoughts. The MIND, as we conceive it, is everywhere. It's a part of each of the trillion cells
in your body.
If you want living (pun intended) examples, do an Internet search on "organ transplants and cellular
memories" or "heart transplant memories". You'll read some fascinating stories about people who
discovered they acquired habits and memories from the donor along with the heart or liver.
The second reason is that we are just BEGINNING to get a real picture of how the living mind/body
works. Technology for analyzing what happens when we do, think, and feel is brand new. Until about 30
years ago, almost everything we knew about the human brain was assumed from experiments on
animals. Most of our information was acquired by messing something up in a rodent brain and observing
the results. Human brains (except for lobotomies or other disease/accident treatment experiments) were
only examined (officially, at least) after the owners were dead.
The third reason is that the people who are MOST interested in learning how YOUR mind works are
interested in manipulating YOUR behavior for THEIR profit. If you remain ignorant of how to effectively
manage your own mind, they won’t be the least bit upset. It's no accident that a lot of today's RESEARCH
BUCKS are going into "persuasion techniques". But don’t worry. You will learn abut them first hand just as
fast as they can get them out to you… through your television… by way of the commercials.
MIND SELF-MANAGEMENT should be taught in first grade, but it's not. We teach first-graders to do, think,
and feel WHAT we adults want them to do, think, and feel, not HOW to use their minds to the best
advantage.
In all fairness, we only are doing what was done to us: We teach creativity right out of our children by
rewarding them for sopping up and spitting out what WE want them to know. Fresh ideas, creativity and
intuition are choked off and weeded out. By third grade, discipline (from disciple, meaning pupil) becomes
associated with pain and learning with boredom.
Athletes escape this process by taking a parallel road without all the negative associations. It’s almost
impossible to be physically active and bored or depressed. (Chemicals secreted from the cells of a physically
active body are mood elevators superior to any anti-depressant on the market.)
What feels good, we do more of. When we do more of something, we get better at it. When we get
good, it's natural to want to improve even more, be the best, and when athletes start comparing notes
about what works and what doesn't, they discover how controlling their minds give them control of their
bodies.
The rest of us do this hit-or-miss thing. We’re hard-wired to watch others, analyze their patterns of
behavior, and mimic them, so we learn almost everything from that process. We are brainwashed
(hypnotized – the natural state of children under eight is trance-like susceptibility) by entertainment,
educators, religious leaders, and parents - who often say one thing and act differently. We tend to either
do as they do or exactly the opposite.
As a result, we feel compelled to do “X” and haven’t a clue as to why. To justify it, we invent a reason
(rationalize). Once we tell the “reason” to anyone, even ourselves, we feel obligated to repeat the
behavior (we have to be CONSISTENT). Repeated often enough, the action/reason becomes a belief,
and… WA-LA… we now own a conviction that we feel obligated to defend … to the death? Well, maybe
not, but often to the divorce.
Then we wonder why some of us undermine ourselves with stunning consistency.
We are able to finish the sentences of our boss/spouse/buddy, but we get hopelessly confused by our
own behavior. We get so caught up in our conscious-mind shoulds, woulds, ifs, and buts that we find it
almost impossible to be objective monitors of our own thinking. We choose to believe our conscious mind
determines our actions when 95% (or more) of what we do is determined by the subconscious mind,
the keeper of our habits, beliefs, memories, and a bratty little kid who resents rules and authority
If you want to know what you really think about things, look at what you do, where you work, what
you wear, who you live with, what you drive. You are living what you believe subconsciously. You
created your health. You created your life. You are as happy as you choose to be. You are as
successful as you choose to be.
You ARE who you chose to be.
If you wanted things to be different than they are, they would be. If you want to change, you have to
start from here.
If you want to blame anyone else or look for a solution outside your skin, unless you are seeking
counseling on changing YOUR actions or thinking, you are wasting your time and money. Nobody and
nothing changes you but you. You are in charge. You run the show. If you choose to abdicate to someone
or something else, that’s your privilege. However, you are STILL responsible for the outcome. That’s it in
a nutshell.
You are who YOU chose to be.