Time for an end...and time for a new beginning... Ill soon be leaving on a drive to Here (not sure about where that Here will be, but Ill know it when I get there). Its my last My Day on a Thursday - tomorrow being my last day working at the St. Marys Cancer Medicine Center (part-time - 20 hrs per week). Tuesday begins my new career as a counselor at a local addiction services center (full-time - 40 hrs per week)... As with every day - something comes to an end, while something new begins. We just dont normally pay attention, because we get lost in doing what weve seemingly always done. I wont be able to do what Ive always done for the next month or two, because each and every day will bring something and someone new into my world - making it a more conscious world. Ive been watching a lot of videos about how we learn - how neurons build connections with other neurons that make it possible for us to learn, think, remember, and do. Its how habits are formed...and how addictions become almost impossible to escape from. And when hormonal chemicals bring payoffs in the form of dopamine, we want to keep coming back for more (theyre free, legal, and we make them ourselves). The initial synaptic connections are weak, yet...over time, those connections become superhighways that we become totally unconscious of - our reactions, our beliefs, our view of this person or that pace...become hard-wired (whether right or wrong). Changing our mind is possible and is done every day, by children. Each time you learn something new, you build a new neural connection and if what you lear is an adjustment to what you thought you knew, then the old bit of information must be eliminated (through the breaking of that particular neural connection). The more times you cross the synaptic crevice between neurons, the easier and more efficient it becomes. It works whether what you learn is truthful, healthy, and contributes to the wellbeing of our planet...or not. And its called Neuroplasticity, which Ive come to place a lot of hope in. We can Change...if only we become aware of how we came to be, who it is we think we are - the how we (our mind/belief window) materialized from the neural connections in our brain. Im going to end my visits to Facebook next week - one of the things Im leaving behind, in order to make room for my new career. Beer in the house, is another - not that I drink more than one or two a day, but more because I want to lose the empty calories and remind myself that this is how all habits become more than habits. Facebook will not be a place where Ill be able to share stories about my new career. And its not a place where I want future clients to view my controversial views and beliefs - could be a sideshow that I dont want to interfere with the reason Im there, which is to help clients pull from our toolbox of addiction tools, whatever it is that works best for them (each is an individual with a unique background, unique interests, unique learning capabilities, unique belief windows). But, thats not whats on my mind right now - no, now is about brushing my teeth, getting in the car armed with cameras, a journal, and two books on CD (one on motivation and the other on Nature Deficit Disorder - children who dont get enough unstructured time with Nature...and suffer the consequences)...and where Ill be at 5:00 this afternoon, I have no idea, which is the way I like it sometimes - to purposefully walk into the unknown and meet what is waiting for me there without anticipation or expectations.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:46:38 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015