Mindhacks

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the Christ within, or your Buddha nature.

Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made "little me" is all you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness.

If you can recognize, even occasionally, the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns as they happen, then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

It wants to draw your attention in completely.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.

Read the article by Eckhart Tolle >>

Know thyself.

These words were inscribed in the vestibule of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

For centuries, petitioners seeking advice from the oracle at Delphi would view the inscription. Philosophers throughout the ages offered this same advice to their students. These words are as valuable today as they were almost three thousand years earlier.

Part of knowing yourself is understanding your beliefs. The difficulty is that most beliefs are subconscious. They have been accepted without ever having been critically examined.

As was described in 3 Steps to Manifesting Your Ideal Life, the Law of Attraction states that you will attract to yourself those experiences that match your beliefs. These beliefs create your experience of reality. What if these beliefs are in opposition to what you’re actually trying to accomplish? What if they no longer serve you? Wouldn’t it be useful to eliminate these limiting beliefs?

There are a number of techniques to identify unconscious beliefs: taking a battery of psychological tests or tapping into your inner wisdom via meditation are two of them.

There is a shortcut that can predict with 99% accuracy what your beliefs are. It is so simple that people usually overlook it. Even when it is clearly stated, they frequently ignore it.

Read the article by Edwin Harkness Spina >>

Our Beliefs are Powerful Forces. They shape our world, our self-image, and even our physical bodies. Unfortunately we all carry negative or unwanted beliefs from our past. Yet, did you know that these past beliefs can be over-written? Just like a VCR-recorder, your mind can be very susceptible to programming. Here’s Burt Goldman’s advice on how to re-program unwanted past beliefs.
 

When, through past programming, the mind associates an event
with some traumatic occurrence, that trauma gestates and produces illness,
disease, and other bodily problems.

A better understanding of mind would be through metaphor. The
brain is like a computer. The mind is like the software. A computer without
software cannot be programmed.  Nor will a spreadsheet program produce
a novel, for that you would need a word processing program.

The mind absorbs all the material input from parents, teachers,
family, friends and media.  When a child is brought up by loving parents
love software is programmed and the child learns love. When a child is
brought up by abusive parents abusive software is programmed and the
child/adult learns all about abusiveness. It is possible for a child of loving
parents to be an abusive adult, but the process would be more difficult
and would have been programmed by someone other than the parent.

Because the mind is so easily programmed, it can be just as easily
reprogrammed. A simple example of programming and the mind could be
that of a cassette tape. A cassette tape has a beginning and an end. A song
near the beginning of the tape could be likened to the programming on
the inner conscious mind.  If you wanted to get rid of the song at the
beginning of the tape you could do in any one of three ways.

1. You could cut the song out and splice the tape.
2. You could erase that part of the tape.
3. You could record over that segment of the tape.

Material in the mind that causes you to be the person you are is
similar in that much of the programming has taken place at an early age.

Various therapeutic methods attempt to locate and correct that
programming.  When you liken the mind to the tape the metaphor clarifies
the problem.

As example: Say that you wish to correct a problem. A person
has been programmed to believe that to be thin is to be ill and that a
husky, overweight body, is a healthy, protective body. Say that program
was installed at the age of eight.

You could get rid of that program in a similar 3 ways.

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Want a more useful mind? Your mind is like a muscle, it can be trained to be stronger and more efficient. Here are some good ways to help you develop your brain into a better tool. I’m not saying they’re easy, but they’re definitely worthwhile.

Read More on Paul’s Tips.com >>

Do you have a high opinion of yourself, a good regard for you? Then you have a good, strong ego. If you have a poor opinion of yourself, and little regard for yourself, then you have a weak ego.

It is possible, of course, to have different opinions of yourself in different areas of your life. You may have a good, strong opinion of yourself in one area, and think rather poorly about yourself in another.

Unfortunately, the poor opinion is generally the one that is focused on—the old homily of the squeaking wheel getting the grease. Here is how you correct that situation.

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