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