Proving It At least once a week, a person new to my work asks me to prove the efficacy of knowing that your feelings come from your thinking and not from your circumstances. Some potential clients, for example, want the hard facts or data that substantiates the inside-out paradigm that I teach. Here’s the thing, though: I don’t have data, and I won’t try to prove the importance of the paradigm. I do, of course, believe that knowing that your perceptions are formed from in to out is vitally important—if you want your mind to self-correct (clear) when you feel troubled, that is. Why do I look at it this way? Two reasons: 1. The use of data, in general, is misleading and almost never shows cause and effect. In pro golf, for example, many types of mental techniques are employed by players on a regular basis. In fact, players will often remark after a good round that they were actually seeing the ball in flight (visualization) before they hit certain shots. Therefore, because mental techniques are so common, it appears to these players that a visualization technique is what helped produce the good round. It doesn’t work that way, however. It’s like an analogy: Storm drain overflow and umbrella usage almost always occur simultaneously, but one doesn’t cause the other, the rain determines both. The same goes for visualization and excellence on the golf course. Just substitute a clear head for the rain. It’s a clear head that leads to both the natural ability to see a golf shot before it happens (visualization) and excellence. 2. More significantly, you simply can’t measure truth. There’s no way to calculate how well a person understands the thought/feeling connection. For sure, those who seem to grasp it tend to give back and manifest change for the better, i.e., Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela. But proving that these outstanding leaders recognized the powerless nature of their thinking (and the powerless nature of the thinking of others) is pretty much impossible. We can only refer to their actions, and their actions, to me, appear to have come from clarity most of the time. No, I don’t possess hard numbers to prove that what I teach—a person’s feelings come from inside of him or her and are always subject to change, while outside circumstances are powerless—is at the core of one’s resilience, contentment, and productivity level. I just know that it’s so. That knowing is good enough for me. I hope it’s good enough for you, too. ~ Garret Kramer ( author of the book: Stillpower) ~ bol/nl/p/stillpower/9200000001573755/
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:12:07 +0000
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