Gratitude project Day 17 1) I am grateful for my knowledge of the hypnotic brain wave. If you do not know about Alpha and Theta brain waves, stop reading and go research. These brain waves happen to all of us. You’re sadly mistaken if you think you can’t be hypnotized. In fact you could argue that the ones who believe that are most vulnerable because they are oblivious to when they are there and when they are not. Our brain needs these waves to function much like sleep but even more so. The dangerous thing is that your mind is very open to changing the way it thinks about certain things during this window. We dip in and out of these powerful states of mind. This leaves us wide open for manipulation. Educate yourself or suffer the inevitable out come of living your life unaware, doomed, a mindless slave to the world around you. This stuff is real and a majority of people have no idea how it works. This is where ALL advertising finds its foundation. I am grateful that I am aware and arguably awake when it comes to the number of ways we are being subtly directed by the world around us. Once you are aware, you can use that awareness to protect your mind. Fight for your mind. Your original thoughts are needed in these desperate times. 2) I am grateful for positive meaningful music. I used to listen to angry, hateful, emotional music. Then I took control of my mind. That music was like a pipeline of negativity pumping into my mind. It was like putting on tinted glasses that I saw the world through. It activated my RAS and my subconscious started flagging unneeded negativity. Sure the beat might be dope but the lyrics are powerful and dangerous. I love music but you have to be choosey as to what is going into your ears. You get in what you put out. I would much rather see the positive and in turn make my life better, even if its just my perspective. 3) I am grateful for Rudyard Kipling’s “If” My mother sat me down the morning of my high school graduation and told me the story of how her father introduced her to this poem when she graduated. She gave me a book of Rudyard Kipling poems with “If” marked. This poem has given me much comfort over the years. It is a blue print of a well adjusted human being. It touches on many tribulations we will face throughout our lives and the proper way to handle them. I love this poem and I am deeply appreciative of my mother for introducing me to my grandfather’s favorite poem; which has become my favorite poem. IF If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or, being lied about, dont deal in lies,Or being hated dont give way to hating,And yet dont look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream---and not make dreams your master; If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same:. If you can bear to hear the truth youve spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and buildem up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginnings,And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: Hold on! If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything thats in it,And---which is more---youll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 17:27:35 +0000