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Thoughts Turn Into Things

Are you working hard yet not achieving the level of success that you desire? Do your dreams and goals sometimes seem elusive or just beyond reach? Do you wish you could BE more, DO more or HAVE more?

Our brain is amazing! In fact, neuroscientists tell us that the human brain is the most powerful processor and solution generator on the planet.  We now know that human intention can and does influence the material world in a significant way.

Yet herein is the challenge that we all face. We affect the world around us whether we are consciously intending to or not.

In fact, our lives are a mirror of our thoughts. What do you spend the majority of you time thinking about? What are the repetitive patterns of thought that float through your mind on a daily basis?

Thoughts are things. It has been said, as it is within, so it is on the outside. Our thoughts and attitude shape our reality all day long.

Here’s an experiment. Imagine that you are a scientist and that your life is your laboratory for learning. Then pick an hour during your day. Rather than choosing an hour when its quiet or restful, make it a normal hour during your busy work schedule.

And just for that one-hour, become a witness to your thoughts. Observe them and ask yourself the following:

  • Is this (a specific) thought or a repetitive thought?
  • Approximately how many thoughts went through in that hour of observation?
  • Were most of them positive or negative?
  • Then make a note of what you discovered during that one hour.
Trinidad Hunt April 12, 2012 Filed in Neuro-Science, Reflection 2 Responses so far - Join the conversation

Weeding My Garden – The Ongoing Journey!

Have you ever caught yourself thinking something that one or the other of your parents thought?

Did you ever say to yourself, “I love my mom but I swear I will never do that one thing that she does.”  With men, it’s usually the father that you model, and it’s the same question.

Have you ever caught yourself doing something (like a behavior) that your mom or dad did?

Well I’ve seen certain behaviors before. But I just had a flashback the other day and gained a powerful insight regarding thoughts (or weeds) in my mental garden.

A fear took over. I got caught in it for about half an hour. Then I sat down and started the one minute meditation. One minute turned into six or seven. And as I continued to follow my breath, I gained enough awareness to separate from the fear. Then I begin to observe it.

I discovered that it was a thought that came from my parents. It had its origin in the pressures of their life and the decisions they made out of certain events or situations.

Neuroscience calls this harmonic resonance. I call it imprinting. And this was imprinting at its best! My brain had been raised with their thoughts. And their thinking left an indelible imprint on my mind. A neural pathway that didn’t originate with me, was now mine and I had to clear it!

Then I began to wonder how much they had imprinted from their parents. It appeared that the thread of imprinting could be traced back through the generations ad infinitum.

This isn’t about blame or being a victim of circumstance. Far from it. Rather, it is accepting myself and taking full responsibility for my upbringing as well as my present experience.

So here was an unsubstantiated fear. And as I went to face it head on, it morphed into it’s origin in my parents’ decision made a long time before I even knew that I had a choice.

I cleared that one, at least for now. But I wonder if its roots are even deeper than I know. I am now on high alert to notice if it returns. And if it does, my intention is to catch it before it catches me and sends me into a tailspin.

Now I wonder how many more of these weeds have I picked up from my upbringing!

Love to hear of your discoveries. Keep the notes coming as the journey continues. This adventure is getting more interesting with every passing day…

 

Trinidad Hunt April 9, 2012 Filed in Neuro-Science, Reflection No responses yet - Click to leave yours

Weeding My Mental Garden

Trinidad Hunt March 4, 2012 Filed in Leadership, Reflection 9 Responses so far - Join the conversation

Another Tragedy With Our Children

One  more time a tragedy has hit our nations schools. The shooting of 5 students by A young boy who had been bullied makes every mother’s heart break for the loss.

This is a tragedy of major proportions…for the children who were shot, for the child who will not see the light of another day on Earth, and for the student who saw this as the only means  of expression.

My heart cries out, “Could this tragedy have been prevented?”

We need to get to the root of issue. Bullying is not an isolated incident! It doesn’t happen one time and cause this kind of a reaction.

Up until now, I said that, ‘Breaking Out of the World Game’ (our anti-bullying program) is an intervention program. Maybe our intervention program needs to be called a prevention program and taught as part of the required curriculum in every school.

Let me say this in another way. Is it time to make an anti-bullying program a prerequisite in every school? If we have come to this, let’s admit it and take a stand as parents and concerned community members. Let’s not lose one more child to our paralysis. Let us act on behalf of every family in America.

It starts with the little abrasive things that we do and say to each other and builds up on daily. If not curbed it turns into teasing and taunting and mental and emotional abuse.

We cannot turn our backs any longer. It is you and I as adults who are on trial here.

I am asking for other voices… your voice to join the call. This is dedicated to our children and our children’s children that they may grow up to live a full life.

My prayers go out to the mother’s and families involved. But are we not all involved? Are we not of this nation and this world? Let the sacrifices stop. For every sacrifice belongs to us if we do not take a stand.

 

Trinidad Hunt February 27, 2012 Filed in Education, Reflection 4 Responses so far - Join the conversation

Weeding My Mental Garden: The Journey Continues

I want to hear from you! Please either click on the blog title and scroll to the bottom of the page or click the word “responses” to take you to the comment area. I look forward to sharing this journey with you.

Trinidad Hunt February 26, 2012 Filed in Leadership, Reflection No responses yet - Click to leave yours

Hitting the Wall

Here I am with this decision to be a sentinel at the gateway of consciousness, a mighty commitment indeed! And I suddenly found myself knee deep in the sludge that lies at the base of a new creative mountain.

I was going into the video studio to do a series of demos for our anti bullying program, Breaking Out of the World Game. And I was in a panic. I felt like a total failure. I didn’t know my script (which I have taught in nearly 500 hundred schools).

Like the Magic Eight Ball where words keep surfacing out of the black ink, my feelings and thoughts exploded out of the dark onto my mental screen. My world spun out of control. ”Not good enough!” “I can’t do it!” “I feel lost.” ”Where do I start?”

Here I was touting mind management and I couldn’t even manage one thought. What happened!? I hit the wall and I found myself back in my own ground zero.

The only viable thought in the whole thing was really, “Where do I start?” But it took me a while to get there.

When I finally did get there, I took a proactive stance. I went back to the creativity template I had burned into my mental hard drive 30 years ago.

  1. Preparation – Engage in the process. Be willing to concentrate fully on the subject. Struggle with it. Visualize it. This feeds everything into the sub-conscious mind. (In my case I had to review the material and think deeply about how to do the video without an audience.)
  2. Incubation –  Let it all go. Relax. Change the subject. Play and sleep usually work for me. (In this case, I went to bed. I was going into production the next day.)
  3. Breakthrough – This usually comes as an ‘AHA’ experience, like Archimedes ‘Eureka’! This breakthrough cannot be forced and arrives in its own time.

In my case, I got up on the day of the shoot and I was in ‘the zone’. I had an extremely successful day in the video studio.

But I could have done it without all of the panic and the negative self-talk. I could have had more wisdom about it and caught it by the tail before it caught me.

I was reminded of Ashley in The Operator’s Manual for Planet Earth. I had fallen asleep and lost the plot again!

I’ve recommitted to my initial goal. Staying awake on Planet Earth is a challenge, especially when the old deep habits kick in!

I’d love to hear you experiences…. I’m going to keep tracking mine and sharing the experience!

Trinidad Hunt February 4, 2012 Filed in Leadership, Reflection No responses yet - Click to leave yours

Weeding My Mental Garden

This is the year of opportunity for all of us. For myself, I’m choosing to make a quantum leap in consciousness. I have laid the groundwork for a quantum jump for some time now.  A significant leap of transformation is available based on a firm foundation of the fundamentals.  I have been on the path of positive change for more than 35 years now. Yet I have noticed that weeds still crop up in my mental garden.

These are little petty indignations, irritations, worry, fear, criticisms and even judgments that have not been fully uprooted. True, I stop them quite quickly when they arise. But I find that their roots are hidden from plain view yet deeply entrenched in my mental soil. They are like little insidious habits of thought that recycle periodically. They seem to catch me unaware from behind and then I become the effect of the emotion it creates.

I have chosen this year to be a year of conscious intention and choice. I am choosing to weed the garden of my mind again! This time my intention is to eradicate the roots of any negative thinking.

I know it’s a mighty intention and will require a a huge leap in self-awareness. I will need to be a sentinel – standing guard at the gate of my own consciousness, observing my every thought as I am thinking it.

In my book, The Operator’s Manual for Planet Earth -An Adventure for the Soul- the biggest challenge the young protagonists face is how to stay conscious on Earth. They would vow to remain aware and conscious yet every time they entered Earth’s Atmosphere in a physical body their light would dim. They would forget to remember their vow.

Now I feel like the protagonist in my own book – choosing to remember to remember to stay awake. It’s a challenge, but I’m excited about it.

Now I’m not saying that I’ve stopped having fun. I’m still enjoying life, swimming, going to movies, getting together with friends – playing as well as working. The difference is that I’m now wanting to uproot all of the lower negative thoughts that float in and take control of my mind and my emotions periodically .

So far, I’ve forgotten to remember at least 13 times since commitment day on January 1st. I caught the slippery thoughts quickly, stopping them before they turned into an emotion. But I am resolute, inspired and committed to the game!

So here is my 30 day game plan:

  1. Ten minutes of meditation in the morning – I’ve shortened it a bit for expediency sake.
  2. Two minute visualization and positive mental activation daily.
  3. Stay alert and aware to my thoughts and emotions during the day.
  4. Two minute reflection in the evening in which I review, renew, rewrite and re-envision any event or thought that caught me unaware and in a negative frame of mind.

I’ll be reporting periodically on how I’m doing. BTW – I would love to have you join me and we’ll rock the world one person and one thought at a time!

Trinidad Hunt January 23, 2012 Filed in Reflection, Remember-to-Remember 1 Response so far - Join the conversation
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