Here Be Monsters 2 (Pay Them No Attention)

Whenever you are at a transition between established old and creative new parts of your life you meet with what is known in some esoteric traditions and “The Dweller At The Threshold.” In my posting “Here Be Monsters” I spoke about the Dweller’s ability to take on any form (as in a thought and feeling) and terrify you into believing that change is too difficult. Precisely because the Dweller can take on any form, it will distract with whatever will turn you off your path and preserve its own existence.

The Dweller is not really a monster, it’s a collection of strategies, self-images and beliefs tied up with memories that together make up an individual sense of identity. This “thing”, this accumulation of your past hopes. fears and commitments, doesn’t want to die, so it will do whatever it takes to survive. Don’t underestimate it, remember it knows more about you, your secret desires, shortcomings and weaknesses than you consciously know about yourself, it knows all the “buttons” to push and, as it sees things, the stakes are as high as they can get.

A Powerful Ally

However, there’s another more powerful viewpoint that’s available to all of us. By fixing and holding your attention on what to do and who you really want to be, despite all the ‘reasons why not’ that present themselves to you, you set in motion the creative process of evolution in your life. The core ‘program’ which your subconscious does all it can to fulfill is this: to do the very best it knows for you. When it knows there is some strategy or behaviour that’s better for your stated goals than what you’re playing out at the moment it will try to shift your behaviour in the new direction. When you’re willing to work with the prompting of your subconscious you’ll find that the power of this ally is beyond measure but you do have to choose to work with it.

While there are mechanisms to warn us that persisting with a new attitude or course of action will involve readjusting many more habitual programs than the one issue we’re focusing on, there is always an urge to evolve, change, grow, to do better, to expand horizons.

Pay Attention

There is a trick to taking into account the presence of the the Dweller and yet not paying it any attention. Your attention is the most powerful, creative force you have available to you. We say “pay attention” because your attention is the currency with which you pay for, that is buy, your New Life, your results. What you pay attention to flourishes, what you give no attention to decays or diminishes. So this is the way to your New Life: pay attention to what you do actually want and as little attention as possible to what you don’t want.

Attention is not just a private internalised thought or where you choose to focus your eyes, it is a seamless combination of thought, emotions and physical orientation. Anyone who has trained in martial arts will know about that sort of focus and if you’ve learned about Ki extension you will have experienced the feeling of your consciousness flowing towards the object of your attention, sometimes even like a liquid. The degree of success we can achieve is directly proportional to the quality of attention we can bring to bear on an undertaking and our ability to sustain that attention. This applies to everyone, and it’s not only about some mental of an elite few, it’s about you having an emotional agreement with those thoughts. When Thoughts, Feelings and Action come together you can achieve almost anything.

Thought, Feelings, Action

It’s worth understanding the order: thoughts > feelings or desire > actions. Intentional actions aimed at giving consciously intended results require first the thought (electrical activity) instantly recognised and reinforced with sincerely felt feelings (biochemical activity) followed by appropriate external action leading to the intended result.

If you want to jump over a low wall you first think about the jump, assessing the height, how you will land. etc. Your intelligent electro/biochemical body recognises what it feels like to jump a wall of that size until you feel ready to jump. Then you jump. In a calm state of mind you may be aware of these different stages but, if you’re being chased by a dangerous animal and you jump that wall, you certainly wont notice how you did it, even if the wall is six feet high.

So jump your wall, think only about reaching the other side and how good, how satisfying and worthwhile that will feel. Pay your attention to that desired result and ignore the dweller at the threshold, letting it fade away like Queen Mab at the end of the movie “Merlin.”

~ Benjamin Edom

Inspiration

Inspiration is around every one of us, all the time. That may be hard to believe when you feel beset by troubles, unsolvable complexities and anxiety about how to thrive or at least survive through tomorrow as well as today.

What is inspiration anyway? It’s often illustrated as a light bulb switching on unexpectedly with a look of wonder and delight on the face of the recipient and, on those rare occasion when a perfect solution to a knotty problem suddenly presents itself, it can feel just like that but how true is that instantly recognisable cartoon image?

Our brain is an organ for switching, organising sensual data and for storing impressions of past experiences both direct and reported as references for future behaviour. Most of its conscious functions are electrical and have been shown to communicate with light impulses so, in a very real sense, a lucid thought is like a cascade of light information.

Thinking

I found this elegant description of thinking which sums up the key elements of clear positive thinking: “Thinking is a dynamic process, characterised by a positive emotional state, a sense of curiosity and the excitement of discovery. It uses knowledge already gained combined with other knowledge and intuition to create even more knowledge.”

Here you have an overview like a recipe for clear, creative, inspired ideas. When you bring together these components you are creating the perfect environment for inspiration to occur but you also need to be holding a sincere openness and desire for the ideal solution, you need to let it in! Too much ‘hard thinking’ or ‘trying’ will strangle it. A sincere, persistent yet lightly held intent opens the mind to new possibilities and offers a way in for what we call inspiration.

We have been brought up and educated to view our mind as located inside the skull and our thoughts as private, isolated bursts of electrical and biochemical activity in the grey matter behind our eyes. We’ll yes, you can measure electrical activity there, but that’s far from all of what’s going on.

Recent research indicates that Carl Jung was on the right track when he suggested that we are all strongly, and largely unconsciously, influenced and guided by cultural archetypes and our collective unconscious. What Jung may have guessed at but knew his early 20th century audience was not prepared for is that consciousness itself seems to be uniform throughout the universe, not an accident of evolution centered in each individual biological specimen.

Consciousness

Consciousness is our environment or you could say that we are immersed in an endless ocean of awareness as a fish is immersed in the sea. That part of our mind that we call the sub-conscious is directly connected to this ocean of possible awareness with our belief systems acting like a semi-permeable membrane as the sole guardian and gateway for what will or will not pass through into our awareness.

This is a scaling up of Bruce Lipton’s model of a cell’s interactions with its environment (http://www.brucelipton.com/) The difference at our human scale of this experience is that we each have a choice of whether we act on habit or consciously choose a new, different behaviour. Therefore we have a governing influence over what we allow into our inner spaces which, of course, includes our mind and personal awareness.

This means that we are not limited by the knowledge, memories and resources that we already have “installed” in our brain and cellular memory, in fact Scientists coined the word subception to cover this phenomenon when they observed that their subjects could sense something without the scientists knowing how they knew it.

For many years when someone has said to me, “So-and-so is psychic,” I’ve always relied “We’re all psychic, it’s just that most of us are not aware that we are.”

Inspiration is a glimpse of a significantly bigger picture of life, existence and reality and for it to leave a lasting impression of different and bigger possibilities, we must step out of the closed, comfortable, controlled world of what is familiar.

~ Benjamin Edom 2009

What is Perfection?

Who are we, you and I, right here and now?

Most of us fall into the trap of thinking and feeling that our current way of life and its apparent limitations is who we are. It’s not, of course, it’s who we were; so if that’s true then who are we right now?

At any given moment we are all the hopes, aspirations, plans, ideals, intentions and projects that we have in process, in preparation, at this moment, although the life we currently experience is the sum total of the results of all these that we have previously had in process. If you find that today is just the same as yesterday, it can only be because you have a belief that it will be and must be so. Everyone has a longing to live a “perfect life”, whatever that means to you, and all the elements that would make up your perfect life are already there in your imagination for you to look at, at any time.

Misunderstanding

A major blockage to experiencing that perfect life is a misunderstanding about what perfection is. From ancient Greece, through the middle ages and right up to the 20th century the philosophical understanding of perfect and perfected was of something finished, complete, static, fixed, historical yet continuous.

However, since Einstein and his contemporaries showed that nothing remains the same at any scale in the Universe, that everything is changing and becoming something else, our whole understanding of perfect and perfected has had to undergo a radical and fundamental shift.

Perfect can only mean ‘perfect in and of this moment.’ A butterfly’s flight on a late June day among rich and fragrant blossoms is perfect yet, just one week later, that same butterfly may be dead and the flowers wilted. Where has the perfection gone? What was it in the scene, the butterfly and the flowers that we recognised – and where is it now?

Energy

The Primary Law of the Universe is that every“thing” is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed but it is constantly changing its expression and moving in and out of form and so, although it may not be visible here, it is somewhere.

Likewise, “perfected” sounds like a finished article, nothing left to do, no more changes. Yet, in this “new” view of reality, perfected can only mean “as perfect as it can be – so far.” It means a process that is perfectly on track and continuing to evolve into a new and better expression of its potential that, perhaps, has not even been imagined yet. Why is that perfect? Well, that’s where it is, the way it is right now, but it will not, it cannot, remain the same. It will either grow and develop or revert, decline and decay.

As this law relates to our human experience, this is where our hopes, aspirations, plans and projects come into the picture. All these and more make up your personal contribution of intent into this dynamic and volatile mix. Not all of your hopes and plans are in your mind because of conscious decision and choices based on careful consideration of the values and descriptions of reality that you hold as “true,” for whatever reason. Most of these values and sense of what is true has been handed to you and unquestioningly accepted from the moment of your conception continuously up until a few days ago. We went through the first six years of life instinctively demanding, “More input, more input” like robot No.5 in the movie “Short Circuit” and downloading it all into our life reference memory.

All these direct downloads as still very much with us and are overlaid with memories of subsequent choices and experiences that we have accepted as conclusive proof of what we were told or shown to be “true” before we we old enough or conscious enough to question the accuracy of our sources.

And now you want to change your life; now, today, completely? Do you imagine that you can ignore the layers of vested interest you have accumulated that keep you firmly on your long established life trajectory? Do you imagine that whatever you are experiencing right now is just a random occurrence originating in the outside world and nothing to do with all the information, programming, assumptions and experiences that your vastly capable sub-conscious intelligence has compiled into a fully-functional model of the world as you have described it to yourself?

Paradigm

Be aware that every view you have, every action you take and word you speak is based on your inner description of the the world and reality – not on an “objective” assessment of what is happening in your environment right now. The buzz word for this huge, compete and intricate description of you, the world and your place in it is your paradigm.

The near magical thing is that your paradigm has built in functions that, in computer terms would be called “automatic updates” so that you continue to grow and change, even though you may do nothing consciously to assist the process.

However, these updates will almost always be limited to minor “upgrades” of whatever “programs” you already have running. Consequently, if you have a behavioural program that depletes your immune system and encourages unnatural cell growth, your ‘growth and change’ could arrive through your become a cancer sufferer with a growing tumour. Conversely, if you have a behavioural program of encouraging people and of enjoying learning new skills and perceptions, your growth and change could lead your becoming an alternative practitioner showing others how to change their lifestyle and avoid or overcome terminal illness.

Current “pop” psychologies like to say that someone with an illness, “bad luck” or unhappy circumstances has “chosen that for themselves on some level.” I hope it’ll be clear from what I’ve said above that it’s really the opposite. By not making better conscious choices in the past they are, by default, experiencing whatever they are experiencing here and now.

So what’s happening in our world now is not who we are, it’s who we were and the choices we make now will have as sure and certain an effect in what we call the future as those attitudes and habits from the past have brought us the world we see about us.

Cubic centimeter of chance

How to change that? In Carlos Casteneda’s books his mentor, Don Juan, tells him to be constantly alert for the “cubic centimeter of chance” which acts like a pivotal choice point around which the events and experiences of our life can change, almost out of all recognition. As an example of a choice point like this, I was practicing as a Kinesiologist in Australia and an attractive young woman, who I knew a little and was quite fond of, came into a friend’s house badly shaken by a near-miss road accident.

I used a suitable procedure to reduce the trauma she was experiencing and, when I asked if there was anything troubling her that this accident might represent, she said that she had several men in her life and didn’t know which one she loved. Something prompted me to give her my business card and say “Is this the man?” at which she burst into tears of joy and say “Yes!”

Now I had never done anything like this before and was considerably older than her. I had appreciated her warmly from a distance and there it would have stayed but, by taking my cubic centimeter of chance when it came I now have a wonderful friend, partner, wife and mother of our ten year old son.

If each of our attitudes and personal evolutions had not reached a certain point on that day, the moment I asked my question, we would now be on different continents with different partners. If I had stayed in my my habitual behaviour of being a conservative introvert I would have, by default, remained isolated and frustrated by relationships.

So, was that interaction perfect? For us, yes and although were were “perfected” at that time, for that choice point, both of us continue to be perfected, to rise to new challenges and be always more than we were. Perfection is not a fixed and final point and it can be draining and depressing when you fall behind that moving benchmark of potential and feel the contrast between what you are expressing and where you could be. Yet it can also be ecstatically joyful and enlivening when you finally let go of old beliefs and limitations and keep up with it by living in the present and grasping wholeheartedly the opportunities that life is offering you to achieve your dreams.

He who would bind to himself a joy
Doth the winged life destroy.
He who kisses joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.

~ William Blake                                                          Benjamin Edom 2009

The Power of Paralax

Parallax “An apparent change of in the position of an object caused by change of position in the observer” (Chamber’s Dictionary)

Most of the time it’s very difficult to see what we don’t see.  Sound’s like a riddle?  Not really!  As we go through our daily lives, whether it’s the same old familiar routine or in even a quite new activity, we only perceive what we’re used to and in the same old way, in this we are virtually slaves of our habitual ways of looking at, hearing and feeling the world we live in. The very familiarity of our environment and the fact that we would like it to remain familiar leaves “blind spots” in our perceptions, technically called scotomas.  These restrict what we see, hear, sense and how we think and feel.

Shifting your point of observation can reveal that things that you thought were connected are in fact separate and that a completely alternative understanding may work better to explain what made no sense before.

To be aware of realities beyond those blind spots, those apparently fixed relationships and unquestioned assumptions about what your present situation is made up from, it’s extremely valuable to read about view or, best of all, experience totally different viewpoints such as unfamiliar cultures, philosophies, beliefs and art.  Read, listen, visit places inhabited and/or built by people with significantly divergent mindsets.

Do this with an open mind and note both what is similar and what is unknown compared to your world view. What are they seeing or describing in both the apparently related and unrecognised descriptions. How are they seeing life, the world, the universe? How can you try out that way of “seeing” for yourself to broaden your understanding, compassion and awareness?

For this approach to be effective you need to, as much as possible, select ideas, places and art to “input” that is created sincerely and with deep understanding of the life perspective and cosmology being represented. Also, within yourself, you have to know something of who you are to view a new reality without getting seduced out of shape by it.

Both these requirements require wisdom and looking through the “lens” of another’s perspective will increase that wisdom.  Even if you don’t make a conscious choice to broaden your world view and penetrate your fixed way of understanding life, the irresistible law of evolution will reach into your days and present you with contrasts from your familiar and comfortable world, whether you want it to or not.

What will you do – accept, grow and expand or reject, defend and restrict your growth with a compacted shell that you should perhaps have let go of long ago?

© 2009 Benjamin Edom

Light

Light has been shown to be both waves of energy and minute particles at the same time but you can only observe one or the other depending upon what you set up your experiment to find.  As soon as light has been observed as wave or particle, even by a camera or other inanimate instrument, it is ‘fixed’ in that expression to any subsequent observations within the same experiment.

Since the availability of extremely sensitive cameras and other instruments, biologists and other researchers have shown that all biological entities, from single cell amoeba’s through plants and complex animals communicate by light emission or “radiant energy,” and that includes you and me.  (See work by Popp, Schwartz, Klimek, van Wijk etc.) Our cells communicate using light signals, not only through our physical nerves that can be defined by the scalpel, but through the tissue itself.  Therefore messages can travel around our bodies at 186,000 miles per second, a much faster form of communication than the biochemical!

Thoughts are also electrical impulses that have been measured, they interpenetrate our body tissue and environment and in fact represent a significant part of the environmental input to our cells, giving them the information they use to adapt and express their genetic blueprints, i.e. to evolve. (Lipton, Cornell, Tsong etc.)

© 2009 Benjamin Edom

Zero to Hero: Allow the Change

Have you ever tried to change your circumstances only to find that you’re the same old you doing the same things and achieving almost the same as you have before?

I was not good at sport in school, in fact I got fairly good at avoiding supposedly compulsory activities and particularly didn’t like team games with everyone’s expectations pushing me to exert myself.  I simply didn’t feel feel whatever it was that motivated them and so stayed as I was, a fairly unfit teenager more interested in playing guitar than being an athlete.  At 17 I first paddled a kayak but didn’t achieve much because although I liked the idea of being a winner I wanted to remain the me I already knew even more.

I didn’t understand then that, to get where you want to go, you need to be the Who You Are yet already expressing who you will be.  You must Be that person now.  There is no other time or opportunity to start if not here and now.

When you decide to change, and it can be almost anything that can trigger that knowing that it’s time or ignite a big enough passion, you have to expand your awareness.  That means to feel sincerely, to look further and deeper at everything going on around you.  The opportunities you need to move ahead with your dreams, your plans, are everywhere, just allow yourself to wake up to the possibilities.  I’m not talking about a big mental effort – just allow yourself the enthusiasm you feel and allow that wonderful alertness that you’ll know from when you’re in love.

When you’re in love with a person you want to do almost anything for them.  So be in love with your idea: dream it in colour, enrich it with detail then, just as intently and joyfully, allow yourself to see, feel, know whatever it is you can do right now for your dream to make it real.  Dreaming and planning, having a vision and a passion can bring your goal almost close enough to touch but only by being definite and practical can you make it real.

When I first saw Canoe racing on a video of the Olympics I knew that’s what I wanted to do and that could do it well. I saw myself as one of those leaders, lunging in total commitment with my paddle and the boat slicing through the water at a crazy speed.  I could have walked away and kept on dreaming, instead I phoned round a dozen canoe manufacturers to find out who made the racing boats.  The one who did just happened to have a cancelled order that I could pick up the next day at a reduced price so I drove 300 miles to collect it and started paddling (and falling in) the day after that.  Three years later I became C1 1,000m national champion, the  very event I had watched on that video.  I became what I wanted to be, kept awake for opportunities and acted with compete commitment on every one I could see.

The scientific Law of Vibration states that everything in the universe is in a constant state of vibration and those on a very close frequency attract one another, this is now often called the law of attraction.  Think on this … to make something you want real … tangible in your everyday experience, you have to match your ‘vibrations’ to what you want.  Having decided what you want, dreamed it, felt it, you must actually set in motion real, sincere, practical, here-and-now actions so that your desired goal can also become real, practical and here-and-now. It’s up to you.

When your energy, your way of being, matches the degree of reality you want your goal to have – it’s already here.

Want to change? “Here be Monsters!”

Why is it so hard for us to change our behaviour when we know we want to do things differently such as achieving more or stopping a habit that we know consciously is detrimental?

As human beings we have a default setting to act on and accept the familiar over anything less familiar whether we think it’s better for us or not.  There’s a part of our brain called the Amygdala which senses the moment we’re serious (as in sincere) about trying a new direction or experience that is outside the flow of business-as-usual, what’s often called our “comfort zone.”

Autopilot
The scientific term for what keeps things as they have been is the psycho-cybernetic mechanism and it acts like a boat’s autopilot. When an autopilot has been programed with a course, say 045º (North East), if you turn the steering wheel or tiller so your boat points 180º (South) you’ll go South until you let go of the wheel for any reason, then the autopilot will immediately steer you back to North East faster than you can say “What’s happening?”  That’s the direction which is familiar and comfortable for the autopilot – because it experiences “stress” whenever there’s a difference between its steady state of North East and any other course.

In our own body/mind the Amygdala senses the difference between our new intended behaviour and the established way of being or doing that our subconscious mind and biochemistry has adapted to, and it does its very best to get us to return to what it recognises.  When it senses a real intent to step outside the “tried and true” it releases chemicals that we experience as agitation, fear, even confusion.

A terrible monster
In some esoteric traditions this fear and uncertainly we face as an initiate of the New, when we step beyond any previously known boundary, is described as meeting the Dweller at the Threshold.  This is often described as a terrible monster lurking in the shadows, ready to pounce on the initiate as soon as they tried to move into the New.

One of the characteristics of the Dweller at the Threshold is that it will always take the form of whatever the initiate fears the most.  This idea is well illustrated in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” when the Hogwart’s pupils have to face a Boggart which has no form of its own yet instantly shapes itself into whatever will terrify its opponent.

The Dweller is not as easily dispelled with laughter and the incantation “Ridiculous” as a Hogwart’s Boggart because the Dweller is intimately connected to who you think you are.  In fact it is in a way who you have thought yourself to be that is reacting to the threat of change which it assumes to be a potential attack on its very existence.

“It’s too hard”
It will first try whatever you’re susceptible to, quietly whispering, “It’s too hard”, “Why don’t I just rest a bit ‘til I feel better?”  “I don’t really have to make that phone call” or “Just a small piece wont matter.”  Often we get turned away from our purpose at this stage but, if we persist, the Dweller may set up circumstances that really test our resolve.

This is when true inner courage comes into play, not in a dramatic fight but by refusing to let the Dweller distract you.  The “magic spell” here is to be very clear in your mind and passionate or at least completely sincere about your new direction or activity.  That gives you the steadiness and perception to discern which feelings are reaction emotions generated by the Amygdala doing its job (file under ignore) and which feelings are from your intuition, telling you when and where to act so as to successfully move on past the distractions and into your New You.

“Here be monsters” at the point of change it’s true but as always the worst enemies and scariest monsters are inside each of us, they are ghosts of who you were. Just step past them and be who you want to be, remember, the tide of evolution is with you.

© 2009 Benjamin Edom

Life Challenging You? Let go of who you were.

Time to wake up.

There can be no doubt, it’s time to wake up and shake the dust off, open our eyes and apply new thinking to every event and circumstance we find ourselves in.  Every experience we’ve lived up until now is a result of some attitude we’ve held in the past. So every result we’re getting is no stranger to us really, at some time and in some way, we laid the trail from then to now.

Why would this make sense?  Since the time of Darwin we’ve been comin to terms with the retrospective view of evolution, what brought us to this point, where we are and this is often spoken of as a fixed thing, the terminal to which the train of our development arrives and comes to a full stop.  Well, we had better think further than that because every former evolutionary stage has either declined to extinction or radically changed and I don’t mean we’re about to sprout another nose or start resembling master Yoda.

The way forward is quite clearly evolution of consciousness.  As you may be aware that this is nothing new, anthropologists have long attributed our ancestors’ success to their rapidly developing neurology that enabled more sophisticated language and communication skills which, in turn, brought about improved strategies that enabled larger groups to cooperatively thrive.  Do you imagine that this process has stopped?  Somewhere at the end of the nineteenth century perhaps when Darwin had said his bit?

Of course not, evolution continues unabated today, in fact as it’s often said “Things are changing so much faster than they used to.” Indeed they are and to meet that challenge will the human spirit try to stay as it is (has been) or will it move on. This is no distant phenomena enacted out of our control.   Microbiology (Bruce Lipton et al) today confirms that our life experiences and the choices we make to overcome them are continually updating, i.e. evolving, our deepest programs.

“Are you choosing your experiences to move forward and evolve or to go round in the same old circles?”
.… Benjamin Edom

© Benjamin Edom

Thoughts are bridges, remember someone/something is on the other side.

Fifteen years ago in October when I lived in Australia I took a holiday sailing my 19 foot racing catamaran alone up Wilderness Beach on Fraser Island.  It gets quite hot in October but the last of the Humpback whales are raising their calves and preparing to return South for the long Antarctic summer feed.

One morning, not long after I got up, I heard a splashing out on the bay and turned round to see a whale mother and her calf only 150m off the beach slapping the water with their tails. I quickly rigged my boat and pushed off after them though there was barely enough wind for me to keep up with their slow progress out to sea.

Over the next two hours I was overwhelmed with delight and wonder as these whales were joined by five others who all played around my tiny boat as we all cruised 2-3 miles off shore with no other human being in sight all around the compass.

I felt the presence of these huge animals not just physically but I could feel their attention on me, almost as if they watched my mind.  At one point, for no particular reason, I started thinking about how the Humpback whales had been almost hunted to extinction off the Queensland coast a generation before and how easy it would be to shoot or even throw a harpoon into their slow moving bodies and how the blood would stain the water, how the flensers would cut off the blubber for the boilers.

As I imagined these scenes of violence I noticed that “my” seven whales had stayed down much longer after their last breath and I had no idea where they were.  After perhaps two minutes I caught site of some of them half a mile away and further out to sea so I turned towards them. At that point two of the adults started swimming towards me at more than double the speed they’d shown before and at every outbreath they made a growling roar while pushing thundering bow waves of water ahead of them. I immediately turned away from them and sailed for the beach as fast as the wind would take me and I never saw them again.

Although this is 100% true, it’s not a story I have told until quite recently because of the link I’m suggesting between the minds of the whales and my own thoughts. However I’ve discovered that, since 1966, scientists have been recording conclusive results proving that animals, plants and, of course people, “pick up” threatening thoughts and register signs of alarm.

Our thoughts are not isolated, private nothings that just go on inside our heads, they have an impact on everything and everyone around us.

How can that be you might ask, a thought is an abstract intangible that happens for me alone inside my head while there is a solid reality out there, “Life is a hard surface” as Aristotel Onassis used to say.  But in fact, for about a hundred years scientists have known very well, first in theory, then through experiment, research and fact, that every thing we experience is very far from being solid at all, let alone a hard surface.

Thoughts have been conclusively shown to produce measurable effects in experiments where the “thinker” or “thinkers” were thousands of miles away from their subject. How much more effect our thoughts produce to those around us.  Cleaning up our actions is a move in the right direction but the job has hardly started until we decide to clean up our thoughts and feelings.  That’s the first real step in reducing pollution on our planet.

“Cleaning up our actions is a move in the right direction but the job has hardly started until we decide to clean up our thoughts and feelings.
That’s the first real step in reducing pollution on our planet.” …. Benjamin Edom

© Benjamin Edom

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