Conditioning – Who Needs It?
How can we ever hope to evolve while we remain so heavily invested in the past. How many of us actively seek new/different ways of thinking and behaving? How many of us actively question our conditioned thoughts and actions? There is no doubt that we are heavily...
Contentment… What is that?
Why doesn't contentment get ANY air time these days? Because content people don't consume and endless stream of unnecessary goods and services. They are essentially low maintenance individuals, happy with who they are, what they have and how their life is playing out....
Trust…
What happened to trust? Trust was blown out of the water by fear... Responding to real fear keeps us alive, responding to manufactured fear keeps us caged. There is no real freedom in a fear based world, we may think we are free but we are not, our fears constrain us....
Part 3: Final Instalment – Capitalism v Evolution
We proposed in Part 1 that our evolution was under a three pronged attack and in Parts 2a&b we explored the impacts of capitalism, now for the other two. How well are we faring under authoritarian government regimes and the rule of religious doctrine? It plays out...
Part 2b: Capitalism v Evolution
Is one the price of the other? Let's continue considering all those things that we recognized capitalism having given us… How has that played out for us, the human component of this experiment? Essential services – water, power, gas and telecommunications. In...
Part 2a: Capitalism v Evolution
Is one the price of the other? We determined in part one that, unlike the rest of earths natural resources we can choose weather we continue to allow ourselves to be exploited by capitalism. With that in mind, let's reconsider all those things that we recognized...
Part 1: Capitalism v Evolution
Is one the price of the other? Actually it's more than that, load in authoritarian governments and religious doctrine… it's a three pronged attack that has largely gone unrecognised – we're barely aware that as a species we're stagnating and have been for generations…...
The price of Entitlement…
How High? Entitlement comes in many forms and unfortunately it's not just the millennials enacting it on a daily basis. I challenge anyone alive at this time, who has not suffered extreme hardship and loss, to honestly admit that they have never behaved in an entitled...
Religious Doctrine…
How relevant is it? How relevant has it ever been? We are and have always been a species that takes comfort from ritualized beliefs and practices. They provide a means of drawing/tying a community together, defining them in their own eyes and in the eyes of others....
The Past…
The past invades every moment of the now. Why is that? We're all told to leave the past where it is, know that the future is unknown and will remain so, and that all there is, is here and now – yet many aspects of modern life and practices orientate around...
Projection – how does it impact your day?
Snapshot 7 - PROJECTION – is a big part of who we are and how we perceive others. Our perceptions of ourselves greatly distort how we see and experience those with whom we interact. Until we truly know and accept ourselves we will continue to project our insecurities...
Let’s call it a War…
The War on Drugs – OMG what a farce… This situation would be utterly hilarious if its destructive outcomes were not so absolute. So, why do we have a war on drugs in the first place? As with many disasters these days, we have it because we created it!! The war on...
We Exist in a Culture of FEAR
Snapshot 6 - FEAR- we exist in a culture of fear… One of the most debilitating can be a fear of difference - what others may think of us. We have no control over what other people think and often have yet to consciously control our own thoughts… We can do what we...
The Greed Machine
There is not a challenge on earth that we face at the moment that does not have some form of greed – an insatiable desire for increased material wealth(money/power) - at it's deepest core… Thousands of years ago money was invented to meet a need and went on to play a...
Idiots are us?
Idiots are us, if we continue to let fear override compassion... For thousand of years mankind roamed freely across this amazing planet, moving with the climate, following sources of food and water. Natures abundance was respected as was our freedom, as a species to...
Tunnel Vision Limits Opportunities…
Snapshot 5 – SINGLE MINDEDNESS IS TUNNEL VISION. Most of us have so little knowledge of who we are and why we are here that we cannot possibly know where we are suppose to end up and what we are suppose to do there. By having rigid expectations and goals we can...
Everything Happens for a Reason
Snapshot 4 - EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON – whether we understand it or not… Every situation we encounter has a learning for us, every person we engage with has something for us and likely us for them. We are continually presented with an endless stream of...
Delusions of Control
Resisting Change & Denying Evolution The only things we CAN control are our thoughts and actions. The only things we NEED to control are our thoughts and actions. History is littered with the casualties of deluded attempts to control people and the choices they...
You Are NOT Alone…
Snapshot 3 - YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Your life is full of people who are either here to support you in your learnings or whom you have agreed to support in theirs. The thing with support is - for it to be of any value - it has to be accepted – no one can guide or support...
You Live the Life YOU Choose…
Snapshot 2 - YOU LIVE THE LIFE YOU CHOOSE. You are a mind, a body and a spirit and you have chosen to live this life in this time. You chose the family you are born into, the people you will meet along the way and the learnings you wish to take on. Some learnings will...
Extremism Cannot Exist Without FEAR!
The re-emergence of the far right ultra conservatives and other extremest movements is one of the most disturbingly lazy phenomena of our time. The beliefs and behaviours expressed and exhibited by these groups reflect the beliefs and behaviours of the past, and in...
Same Shit Different Day…
It doesn't have to be that way… Not a lot has changed in the last 2000 years and not a lot will while we continue to be motivated by fear. In the world as we know it: Unique individuals have always existed, Some have always had more material possessions than others...
You Are Unique!
Snapshot 1 - YOU ARE UNIQUE. There is no one out there like you, never has been and there never will be, anyone else exactly like you. So, why a life of endless comparisons, you against everyone you see and meet, you against perceived norms, averages or ideals. What...
Taking on our Genetic Conditioning…
As a species, why do we seem incapable of learning? Why do we keep making the same mistakes? Committing and re committing gender, religious and culturally based atrocities. We are suppose to be an intelligent species... Could it be as simple as leaving unquestioned...
Escaping Fear Enhances Life – Part 3
The Great Abdication – Why we let go and how to turn it around... FEAR OF ILLNESS AND DEATH ABATES with acknowledgment of the certainty of death and the potential learnings associated with illness… Being afraid of illness means that we are unable to own or learn from...
Escaping Fear Enhances Life – Part 2
The Great Abdication – Why we let go and how to turn it around… So why all this fear based conditioning? - Any ideas??? Fear has proven to be a very effective means of exerting control over both individuals and groups... By absorbing some or all of the fear based...
Escaping Fear Enhances Life
PART 1 Many of us have unconsciously abdicated responsibility for both our personal well being and that of our planet. We have never before had so much information/knowledge/wisdom at our fingertips yet we have never before been less personally informed about what is...
What Are We Thinking? – when we give our power to others…
A friend recently found this helpful while navigating a period of high stress so I thought I’d share. Retained gilt, regret, anger or sadness associated with an event or individual depletes our energy and our capacity to function and grow. By holding onto these...
What Are We Thinking? – when we criticise those around us…
We're clearly NOT thinking when we criticise those around us - we're projecting our own fears and thinly disguised self loathing... Criticism is a misguided attempt to self elevate - feel better about yourself by demeaning others... We are not perfect, nor is anyone...
What Are We Thinking? – while we try to blend in rather than stand tall…
We're NOT thinking while we try to blend in rather than stand tall... we're just being... Being normal, being average, being part of the crowd, being safe... being miserable perhaps? There is no such thing as normal or average and being part of the crowd implies a...