The Collective Conscious And Unconscious Of Negativity
Kenrick Cleveland
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." --Seneca, Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD
Whoa! Things seem to be in a state of flux at this moment in history, don't they? Just turn on CNN and you'll see how topsy turvy things are with doomsday and apocalypse on the horizon. It's enough to turn even the most well adjusted, reasonable person into a confused, pissed off obsessive ready to jump off a bridge. I say, keep your rudder in the water and make life work.
A number of my students are in the real estate business. Lately we've been discussing the current market (at length). Huge mistakes were made on all fronts. Banks were practically throwing money at people, people who had no business accepting variable rates on loans, people who way overestimated how much they could afford in the long run. And now, instead of this being the problem of the banks and the borrowers, somehow it's everyone's problem, the taxpayers' problem.
I can't fix the mess the market is in. It has to right itself (whether that's allowed to happen naturally and quickly or whether the government prolongs the pain). What I do understand and can advise upon is that we do not have to accept the misery and fear mongering that is coming at us from all sides.
I'm not very fond of the media. First of all, there's not much to it beyond entertainment these days anyway, and it's really just tidbits of "news" mixed up with salacious celebrity gossip (or even more salacious political gossip) but aside from that, I think it poisons the well for us to try to make positive change and have positive frames around our shared reality. As a collective conscious and collective unconscious, we have been duped into believing that we have no impact on the world around us, no power to make significant change.
So as my way of counteracting this deluge of downers, I read. My most recent purchase is the book "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain" by Sharon Begley. I'm only on page ten and feel compelled to already recommend it. It's all about transformation. The premise is that when we combine cutting edge neuroscience and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of mindfulness, we've got something incredibly powerful to work with.
Neuroscience is beginning to understand the powers we have to heal and adapt, just through thought, from accidents, head injuries, trauma, negative programming. Part of this has to do with intention and what we think about and includes setting our own frames for viewing the wold instead of accepting the frames that others (like the media) set for us. When we begin the work of self change, our successes ripple outward to family and friends and then to the world around us.
Seems like spirituality and science have had a bit of a problem coexisting in some ways. One need only to look at the creationism versus evolution debate that is still being argued to see this. Neuroscience and Buddhism have found a common ground on which to create exciting mind/body transformations that can cure diseases without the pharmaceutical companies trying to medicate the diseases out of us, problems like OCD, dyslexia, depression and autism. I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to think or meditate my way to health than take a pill with a litany of side effects and high price tag.
There might not be a huge profit to be made from us fixing ourselves through intention especially for the big pharmaceutical companies, but the real profit is in us rippling out positivity and undermining the negative things that are being spoon fed to us.
Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of wealthy prospects using http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion strategies.
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