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Senses Think
The mind is a universe in a sense. As a recent book title seems to suggest, we have both those elements of our mind that are readily available to our awareness, and those things they thought are definitely a part of our awareness. They just never seem to surface so we can look at them…
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Habits of Sensation
Part of the reason I emphasize that the senses think, is that even before you begin trying to figure out what you are experiencing, your senses begin learning it. The rhythm of your legs moving as you walk, the tension in your eyes as your scan them across a room searching for some small detail.…
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Elemental Personalities
I think watching my mom feed my younger brother and helping her do that gave me my drive to cook for people. I used to always play with my dolls that way, feeding them even, putting their mouths to my chest as a mom would a baby. Indeed. Very young children don’t have habits of…
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First Rule We Function With
You aren’t conscious of your perceptual habits, and are only semi-conscious of your habits of attention. You are fully conscious of your habits of judgement, your mental faculties, your grasp of language, your deliberately learned skills, your memory of social exchanges, things like that. Is instinct a combination of perception and attention? That’s exactly what…
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Autobiographical Memory
You have learned a great many things in your life. What portion of those actually serve a constructive purpose? Being hit just feels terrible. It’s like being bullied but you can’t stop it because you’ve been taught that authority is always right. That would be a non-constructive consciously learned thing. How about baking a cake?…
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Your Body Thinks
What happens when the flow of water in a whirlpool is somehow obstructed? It breaks up. In the end, yes, and can make some really weird noises before it finally dissipates, no? When you look at your conscious mind, would you say its processes are seamless? Contiguous? In harmony with each other or do they…
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Written in Your Senses
This is an example of your mind shaping your reality right here. Many amazing athletes have learned to use this if not with much finesse. They understand that they can choose how much the strain distracts them to the point of some pushing themselves to organic malfunction, vomiting from the pain and exertion. Or having…
Category: Awareness
People are not what they think they are, but what they think … they are. Your individual awareness is like a body, and most people are down right anorexic on this level.
We don’t act only when the body acts. That’s not when an event begins and we are not the product of events that we have experienced. We are the producer of our experience. Your actions start before the event horizon of your body. Your actions are not predestined, but they are pre-chosen. Eventually, you can begin to see the core self. It’s a fluctuation energy, sort of like fire, and the airwaves or air currents moving through your core are what give rise to your impulses. You can control the flue.
“The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Indian Spiritual leader, 1931-1990)
“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.” Billie Jean King (American Tennis Player b.1943)
“Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.” Shoshana Zuboff