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This is what Vincent Fong
thoughtfully wrote about my last article titled:
A Promise Made To You Can Close Doors Of Endless
Possibilities
“We have less opportunity to condition our thinking than the pedagogy of
our education and the influence of nurturing have.
It's likely those who can see opportunities are more likely to have been
rebels in their youth who've resisted being hardwired to a way of normalized
thinking that society expects.
We can of course unlearn behaviors.
It takes some effort obviously. The question is what and how does one stop
being conditioned all over again when everything around us is designed to
compel us to comply with expected norms?”
__Vincent Fong
The question Vincent is asking
here is a critical one in a sense that our survival within a social contest
depends on the answer.
Here I am going to reformulate
his question using word-illustration with the example of disease. The question
in my point of view will then be, “How do
you experience true healing if everything around you is making you mentally
believe that the way to survive is to be sick, and how do you maintain your
healing, if you finally get healed, while everything around you is spreading
the same virus that first got you sick?”
The answer is simple. You have
to rebel—yet consciously. This rebellion is psychological more than anything.
It does not require any physical attack on the system in place or any verbal debate
to prove anyone wrong.
This rebellion is silent and I should
say deeply spiritual. It’s called mindfulness or self-awareness. Vincent said that “we can of course unlearn behaviors.” This is what I call the
return to innocence. Jesus will call it becoming like children again. To
achieve this goal one must develop a strong routine. Routine for what? For
mindfulness.
For instance, ask yourself what
you love doing the most. Let’s say that thing is singing. Now, the next
question will be if you would like to make a career out of it.
The moment you ask yourself
that second question, the voice of the mental conditioning will start speaking,
“How is that going to work? What are you
going to eat? Will that yield any income? Isn’t that a hobby? And so forth.”
You are getting these thoughts
because the mental conditioning is more than a “brain-wash”. It’s actually a “brain-wiring”.
There are neurons in your brain firing those thoughts and they have developed a
relationship to hold those thoughts in place. These are called patterns. Until
you break those neurological patterns, you cannot rebel properly.
So the routine is to set a time
a side daily to become mindful of those thoughts, without fighting them, but
simply seeing their irrational movement in your awareness using series of
questions. Only with questions we build foundations. Only with foundations we
establish things.
We don’t build anything
assuming affirmative ideas. We strengthen instead with affirmative ideas. When answers
are found from series of questions, we use those answers to create affirmative
points to make our convictions strong.
Questions make us creative,
explorative and innovative. And when we find answers from questions we erect
foundations. So use questions to establish a neurological pattern for
mindfulness to keep you aware of what is useful and necessary to you.
For example
·
Are there people out there who made a career out of what
they love? YES
·
Are there people out there who are successful using their
passion? YES
·
Are those people humans like me? YES
·
Have they faced challenges? YES
·
Did they survive? YES
·
Have they learned lessons? YES
·
Are those lessons available for me to have access to? YES
·
Is it possible that I can also reach my success following
what I love? YES
·
Will I face challenges? YES
·
Add more questions from your own perspective
If you start practicing series
of questions at least 20minutes daily and silently with full awareness, setting
time aside for it, you will begin to create a reaction in the brain causing old
neurological pattern to start losing their old relationship.
The brain does not know the
difference between what you imagine and what you are doing. For that reason,
you must begin to apply visualization to develop a new neurological patter for
what you want to realize or accomplish. This is what completes the
psychological silent rebellion. I just wrote from experience.
In my bedroom I have a vision
board, a prayer box, a bible and books that teach on what I want to be and
reach in life. When I wake up, I don’t go on my phone or to my email or start dealing
with any human affairs. I pray, read and meditate on a bible verse that
strengthens what I believe my purpose here on earth is and what I am ought to
do to reach that purpose, then I step
into my vision board seeing
myself being and doing what I want to do, then I read a book. I am always on a
book.
When you keep a routine for
more than 28 days it will become a passion. But it must be a routine that
support an intensive desire; because boring routines kill passion.
Through this practice you are actually transforming yourself by creating a filter in your brain using neurons to protect yourself against the social domestication, negative criticism, poisonous internal dialogues, strong suggestions and indoctrination.
Once the brain is supporting your mindset, you can maintain your idea and fulfill it. The only challenge is, you have to learn to defeat procrastination, laziness and lack of consistency.
Written By:
Author of more than 100 books
Success eMagazine Editor
www.1happyliving.com
Through this practice you are actually transforming yourself by creating a filter in your brain using neurons to protect yourself against the social domestication, negative criticism, poisonous internal dialogues, strong suggestions and indoctrination.
Once the brain is supporting your mindset, you can maintain your idea and fulfill it. The only challenge is, you have to learn to defeat procrastination, laziness and lack of consistency.
Written By:
Alain Dagba
Motivational Speaker | Life-Coach | MinisterAuthor of more than 100 books
Success eMagazine Editor
www.1happyliving.com
