| "Luck is what happens when preparation meets | | | | counteract the negativity, I read. The most recent book |
| opportunity." --Seneca, Roman philosopher, mid-1st | | | | I picked up is called "Train Your Brain, Change Your |
| century AD Whoa! Things seem to be in a state of | | | | Mind" by Sharon Begley. It's about the transformational |
| flux at this moment in history, don't they? Just turn on | | | | ability of the mind and combines neuroscience with |
| CNN and you'll see how topsy turvy things are with | | | | Tibetan Buddhism, and mindfulness. I'm inspired and |
| doomsday and apocalypse on the horizon. It's enough | | | | worked up over this book and I'm only on page ten. |
| to turn even the most well adjusted, reasonable | | | | Brain science is showing that we have phenomenal |
| person into a confused, pissed off obsessive ready to | | | | powers to adapt and heal after head traumas, |
| jump off a bridge. I say, keep your rudder in the water | | | | accidents, and have the power to reverse negative |
| and make life work. Many of my students are real | | | | programming like propaganda or brainwashing. Our |
| estate agents and we've had the chance to discuss | | | | intention leads the way. When we set our own frames |
| the current market at length. Obviously, huge mistakes | | | | and not allow others to set them for us (like the |
| were made on all sides. The banks were practically | | | | media), then we can make seismic changes in the |
| giving it away and people who had no business | | | | ourselves which can then ripple outward to our family |
| accepting variable rates (regardless of whether or not | | | | and friends and from them out into the world. Seems |
| they understood what that actually meant) | | | | like spirituality and science have had a bit of a problem |
| overestimated what they could afford to pay, all lead | | | | coexisting in some ways. One need only to look at the |
| to the morass that's currently underway. Yet now, | | | | creationism versus evolution debate that is still being |
| instead of this being 'their' problem (the banks and | | | | argued to see this. Neuroscience and Buddhism have |
| borrowers), it's everyone's problem. I don't have a | | | | found a common ground on which to create exciting |
| solution for the mess in the market, but I do understand | | | | mind/body transformations that can cure diseases |
| that should we tune in and commiserate with the cable | | | | without the pharmaceutical companies trying to |
| news networks and ruminate on just how miserable | | | | medicate the diseases out of us, problems like OCD, |
| and crushing a recession is/will be, we will be miserable. | | | | dyslexia, depression and autism. I don't know about |
| Not sure if you could tell, but I'm not a huge fan of the | | | | you, but I'd much prefer to think or meditate my way |
| media. There's not much to it beyond its attempt to | | | | to health than take a pill with a litany of side effects |
| entertain at this point, and even the "real news" gets all | | | | and high price tag. Who benefits from us fixing |
| messed up with sleazy gossip (whether that be | | | | ourselves? Maybe not the big pharma companies, but |
| celebrity, political, or other). Aside from not really giving | | | | the real profit is in us rippling out positivity and |
| us much to go on, it also poisons the well for those of | | | | undermining the negative things that are being spoon |
| us trying to make positive changes in ourselves and | | | | fed to us. |
| the world, and for those of us who strive to frame the | | | | Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the |
| world and our shared reality as a 'win-win'. Collectively | | | | business of affluent clients using persuasion. He runs |
| our conscious and unconscious minds are being fed a | | | | public and private seminars and offers home study |
| constant stream of gruel, duping us into believing we | | | | courses and coaching programs in persuasion |
| have no power in the world, no impact, no way to | | | | techniques. |
| move things toward the better. In my quest to | | | | |