Accepting our Rejected ThoughtsWritten by Tony McGlinn
Sometimes we are in a position to look into lives of other people. It could be through a book, or a movie, or a story we hear, or occasionally it could be someone that we meet. Sometimes when this happens, we see qualities that we truly admire, and we think that we would like to have those qualities. Perhaps we just look at person and think that we would like to be like them. Maybe we hear what they have said and think that we would like to be able to say things like that. It could be that we would like to have what they have, or do what they do. When this happens, what we are thinking about are our own rejected thoughts. Sometime in past we have rejected a thought or thoughts, that person we are admiring has accepted. When, perhaps when we were very young, we rejected thought that we could have what we have just been admiring in someone else, we accepted a lesser thought, and allowed that lesser thought to become part of our self image, and therefore part of our definition of ourselves. Our self image lives in our sub-conscious mind. Because of way sub-conscious mind works, we can only have one self image with regard to any particular quality. If we really want to have qualities we are admiring, and there is no reason why we can’t, then we need to change our self image. The first step is to be prepared to do just that. Think about this for a minute. Are you prepared to let go of what you have learned in past, that you believe is true about yourself? By that I mean to examine ideas that you ‘know’ are true about yourself, and then to take new idea that you are considering, and to examine that idea, entertain that idea, to see if it will improve your view of yourself. Will accepting that new idea, and rejecting idea that you currently ‘know’, result in a happier, healthier or more prosperous life. If answer is yes, and you are prepared to do it, then you have possibility to change your self image.
| | Don't Forget Your MemoryWritten by Steve Gillman
Remembering ThingsI remember a birthday party I went to as a child. There was a contest that involved looking at a table covered in 15 various items. After a few minutes, things were taken away, and then we each got a piece of paper and a pencil. The object was to write down as many items as we could remember. I struck out after seven or eight, but one little boy got all 15 items, and won prize. Only years later did I learn why he was able to do that. His father had taught him a simple technique that none of us other kids knew. All you have to do is tie items together in an imaginative story. Imagine, for example, that you want to remember a list of following things: milk, soap, forks, honey, and flowers. Create a story, and see it vividly in your head: You are in front of bathroom sink, and you reach for soap. The soap dish is filled with milk, so you wash your hands with that, then comb honey into your hair with a fork, pick up a bouquet of flowers and smile at yourself in mirror. Say each item as you review this "movie" in your imagination, and you'll remember all five things, even next day. Some Other Memory TricksStart telling yourself to remember. If you just learned a person's name, for example, tell yourself, "remember that". This signals unconscious mind to rank this input higher in importance.
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