A good goal to work towards!
John O’Leary – Do More for Others
If You Don’t Control Your Mind…
If you are anything like me, you will be improving your ability to do this for years if not decades to come. So start doing this and while you are improving your ability with this, continue with the remaining steps.
From a philosophical perspective, you get that on which you put your attention. Happiness or sadness are alike a state of mind that the individual chooses with which to approach life.
If I were to sit here and think enough about sad things for long enough I am sure I could make myself feel depressed. I don’t wish to live life depressed so I know not to do that.
I remember 40+ years ago when my wife’s and my first pregnancy resulted in a stillborn baby, we received a card from one of Julie’s cousins who wrote, “I try to remember it is not what happens to us in life but how we respond to it that shapes our life.”
At that time if my wife and I failed to make the deliberate decision to move on, if instead we chose to sit and grieve over that loss we might never have tried again and gotten the three wonderful beings we call our children, their spouses and our 6 grandchildren. Scary thought!
Most people do not know that what they think about is under their own control. Most people run on automatic, giving rent-free room to whatever thought pops into their head. They do not know that they can make conscious, deliberate choices about what thoughts they choose to entertain. Just like you choose what movies to watch in order to be entertained, you can choose which thoughts you entertain and which you kick to the kerb.
The thing to recognise is that what stays front and centre in your mind is what you keep thinking about. If a sad, depressing or harmful thought pops into your head there is no reason to entertain it in your mind any more than you would entertain a burglar who came in through an open window in your home. Just as there are several options to get the burglar back out of your house and onto the street, so there are several options to take your attention of the dark thoughts that invade your thinking.
First thing to do is recognize that it is a dark thought that is not welcome, then take your attention off it. Deliberately and with malice aforethought, direct your attention onto something else. It could be your ‘to do’ list for the day, an upcoming event, a project, your major goal in life, doesn’t matter what, just redirect your attention. Every time you do this it will build your mental ‘refocus’ muscle.
You didn’t know you had that muscle, did you? It is not a physical muscle but a no less valuable function of your discipline. I am guessing quite a few times you’ve been to told to focus or concentrate but nobody has shown you how to refocus or divert your attention from something. Many is the story or movie told about people who let negative thoughts occupy their attention with disastrous consequences but never have I seen anybody place the proper attention on learning how to refocus.
I deliberately choose not to think about the sad things that happen to me or destructive responses to harms done me. I do the following:
Confront the true cause of the problem,
Take responsibility for what part I had in creating the situation,
If appropriate, warn others,
If necessary and possible, do what I can to handle it then
Move on.
I take my attention off it and focus on the good in life which the main stream media news take great care to avoid.
If you read the newspapers or watch the news you are paying them with your money and your time. STOP DOING IT! Stop thinking black thoughts. Whenever your thoughts start to go there, instantly redirect them. Look at something. Strengthen your “refocus” muscle!
For a few minutes every day, practice deliberately changing what you are thinking about to something else. Do this until you become expert at changing what you think about any time you wish.
In a month that alone will make you feel a whole bunch better!
Next skill to improve is to reduce the time between when the black thoughts come in and you refocus. The faster the better. The goal is instantaneous. Thought comes in, BANG! Refocus occurs. This is a lot easier to accomplish when you have a burning desire to achieve a goal on your basic purpose line.
Simple But Important Fact
Maybe The Journey…
There’s truth in this.
You Are What You Do
Just A Mum?
Home Schooling
The longer a shild is in the current education system the less creative are they and the lower their IQ. We are turning out too many propaganda fed youngsters who cannot think and reason. We are turning out too many propaganda fed youngsters who cannot think and reason.
Undermining Morals – The Goal: To Remove Love From Sex
When a city or society is confronted with riots resulting in violence, destruction and death of it’s citizens, its not surprising when law-abiding citizens ask, “how could this happen?” or “why are people so violent?” or “what is wrong with the youth of today?” All sorts of explanations, justifications and unusual solutions are advanced, but they rarely provide the answers or uncover the root causes of the problems.
To gain a broader understanding, we must look at a quite different long-term factor that has been an insidious cause of deteriorating social and family standards and conditions.
In the 1940s, psychiatry’s leaders proclaimed their intention to infiltrate the field of education and the law and bring about the “re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong.” G. Brock Chisholm and British psychiatrist John Rawlings Rees, co-founders of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), bluntly told their peers at the time:
“If the race is to be freed from the crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility.”
Governments were eager to implement new ideas and ideologies of the “new psychology” as society recovered from the devastation of war.
The attempt to undermine morals and consequently the deterioration of society and the family unit can be traced back to the influence of psychiatry in these different fields.
In its formative years, WFMH conferences were held in London in 1940 and 1945 where the leaders eagerly laid out their goals and objectives. Rees proclaimed:
“We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine.” Dr. John Rawlings Rees, “Strategic Planning for Mental Health”, June 18, 1940
Canadian Psychiatrist G. Brock Chisholm, President of the WFMH in 1945 proclaimed:
“The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith… are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.” Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, 1945
To help get happiness back into our society, check out this little booklet:
https://www.thewaytohappiness.org/
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