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