NEWS: Is Head In The Sand The Best Position To Take?

David — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:15:30 +0000

“Don’t watch the news!”
I’ve heard this advice before. It was from mega-successful network marketer Mark Yarnell who authored several good books on that industry. He was saying things like ” Nothing ever happens anyway…”

Years ago I tried his advice myself and I did realize a lot more efficient use of my time. Of course I did get rid of my TV altogether so that had a lot to do with it. The reception in my area was crappy anyway and what with building a new dairy business I was always quite busy with little time to sit in front of a boob tube.

But all that was before 9/11. Today the news seems to be a lot more full of all the gritty stuff folks just love. It gives them stuff to talk about but, in reality, you’d better avoid in order to preserve your positive mindset. I understand that.

But is that the best or the only option? Is all negativity something that we should be trained to avoid at all costs?

I think not.

Not because I like negative news – I don’t – but I realize that sensational news sells and that’s why there’s plenty of it. Anything that get’s the emotions going sells. We all know that. Purchases happen because the buying response is triggered by the emotions and then is immediately backed by logic. That’s marketing 101.

I don’t really care for it myself because it sounds manipulative but… that’s how things are.

We’re human. We must live fully in the world good or bad. It’s not what we see or hear so much as what motivates us to act. If we are making choices based on how it looks we’re probably not going forward as we should.
My advice is to use the gut feel method to “see” if a decision is a good thing or not. It may not always work out to our satisfaction just then but perhaps later on we’ll see that it was for the best.

As for the news? It’s just information composed of letters and numerals which make up sounds and pictures. It’s ok to feel a well reported story emotionally but then engage your ability to detach quickly so that it remains “outside” of you.

(If you have trouble doing that then see this)

You are not the world.

You just live here.

A Mindset Paradox

David — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:10:22 +0000

According to Dictionary.com a paradox is:

“a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.”

One day over 50 years ago a group of physicists were talking over lunch at the Los Alamos National Laboratory located out in the New Mexico desert. The conversation got around to the strong possibility that extra-terrestrial civilizations exist in the universe.

One of the scientists Enrico Fermi wondered aloud: if indeed the conditions were favorable for the existence of extra-terrestrials why have they not been identified or, at the very least, their radio transmissions detected?

This one penetrating question sparked a debate that is still going on today, in and outside of scientific circles.

It’s a great question but it’s not got a lot to do with the subject of mindset has it?

Not so fast.

Personally, I’m not about to wade into the debate over whether or not extra-terrestrials exist; but nonetheless there is a connection here to what I call the Mindset Paradox.

Check this out.

We’ve all heard that an average human being is the host to an abundance of intelligence. Trouble is that about 95% of it seems to be nearly impossible to access most of the time. That means that as humans we’ve managed to come up with the electric motor, theory of relativity, the transistor, and the Barbie Doll – and all of it with only 5% of available intelligence.

Now here’s my paradoxical question:

If all this potential intelligence is said to be residing in humans already where is it all hiding?

Now for a while there I thought I knew. DNA – the wonder molecule – had to have it since it knows how to put a human being together exactly the right way with all its billions of individual parts. That’s a tremendous amount of info. In fact it has been estimated that if all the information that DNA contained were ever put into book form it would amount to whole truckload of encyclopedias.

Scientists, for obvious reasons, wanted to get to the bottom of it all too. Eventually they set out to investigate. They planned to deconstruct the tightly wound strands that made up the marvelous molecule and break it right down to its base elements then analyze each one.

And what did they find?

Not much it turns out.

The basic constituent parts of this brainy molecule are nothing special. Quite common in fact. Curiously, the inquisitive researchers found more empty space than matter deep within DNA and embarrassingly had to admit that it appeared that life itself seemed to spring from… nothing.

According to author Dr. Deepack Chopra it was like tearing a radio’s wiring apart to find out where the music is coming from.

But I have another theory.

I imagined that those researchers that deconstructed the DNA molecule must have had to develop a very specialized tool that would allow such delicate dissection. I wanted to find the missing intelligence too so I could access it for myself because I figured it would lead to more success in my life and perhaps a few others along the way too.

Eventually I hit upon the idea that it had to be expressed in the behavior of a success event. (Just to be clear a “success event” occurs when we overcome all barriers and push through to completion of a task - even a simple one qualifies.)

Like those scientists I too needed a special tool. But the one I needed would have to help me perform the detailed deconstruction of one each of each of my past personal success events and lay out its inner secrets for me to absorb. (Although I had actually stumbled on and used such a tool years before but didn’t know what I had. I went on to develop it further and now I call the H.E.R.O. eMachine.)

When you deconstruct something as airy as a human experience you don’t get molecules, or proteins, or subatomic particles. You get nothing any eye can see no matter how powerful the microscope. You get raw energy in the form of vibrations that only the most sensitive part of you can detect:

Your enteric nervous system, better known as your gut brain.

This organ of sensitivity is what governs all really great decisions and insights. It’s what makes us just know that what the thinking brain in the head is looking at is truth, or not.

Strange as it might sound I believe that the head brain is the thinking-but-not-the-feeling brain and the gut brain is the feeling-but-not-the thinking brain. The fact that these two distinctly separate brain centers co-exist in one body is perhaps the greatest of all paradoxes.

What do you believe? Leave a comment in the comment box below. I’d love to know what you think of this.

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