Kicking Negativity

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." --Seneca, Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD

Whoa! Things seem to be in a state of flux at this moment in history, don't they? Just turn on CNN and you'll see how topsy turvy things are with doomsday and apocalypse on the horizon. It's enough to turn even the most well adjusted, reasonable person into a confused, pissed off obsessive ready to jump off a bridge. I say, keep your rudder in the water and make life work.

Many of my students are real estate agents and we've had the chance to discuss the current market at length. Obviously, huge mistakes were made on all sides. The banks were practically giving it away and people who had no business accepting variable rates (regardless of whether or not they understood what that actually meant) overestimated what they could afford to pay, all lead to the morass that's currently underway. Yet now, instead of this being 'their' problem (the banks and borrowers), it's everyone's problem.

So what's the solution? Should we tune in and commiserate with the networks at how crippled the economy is? Or ponder just how horribly crushing this recession is going to be for all of us?

Not sure if you could tell, but I'm not a huge fan of the media. There's not much to it beyond its attempt to entertain at this point, and even the "real news" gets all messed up with sleazy gossip (whether that be celebrity, political, or other). Aside from not really giving us much to go on, it also poisons the well for those of us trying to make positive changes in ourselves and the world, and for those of us who strive to frame the world and our shared reality as a 'win-win'. Collectively our conscious and unconscious minds are being fed a constant stream of gruel, duping us into believing we have no power in the world, no impact, no way to move things toward the better.

So as my way of counteracting this deluge of downers, I read. My most recent purchase is the book "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain" by Sharon Begley. I'm only on page ten and feel compelled to already recommend it. It's all about transformation. The premise is that when we combine cutting edge neuroscience and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of mindfulness, we've got something incredibly powerful to work with.

Our brains have the ability to heal and adapt to trauma, accidents, and can even reverse the negative programming we've been subjected to in different areas (the media being one of them). When we have intention and pay attention to what's really going on, not what's going on in the frames that others set for us, then we can make seismic changes in ourselves, changes which ripple into those around us, which move exponentially outward.

Seems like spirituality and science have had a bit of a problem coexisting in some ways. One need only to look at the creationism versus evolution debate that is still being argued to see this. Neuroscience and Buddhism have found a common ground on which to create exciting mind/body transformations that can cure diseases without the pharmaceutical companies trying to medicate the diseases out of us, problems like OCD, dyslexia, depression and autism. I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to think or meditate my way to health than take a pill with a litany of side effects and high price tag.

Hmm. . . where's the profit in us fixing ourselves? Where's the profit in us rippling out positivity and undermining the negative things that are being spoon fed to us?

About the Author

Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.

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