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