Personal Development: How To Handle The Crap In Your Brain
August 17, 2010 by selfimprove
Do you have crap in your head? Undoubtedly you have – we all have. However, if you’re paying attention to the crap in your head, you are just creating the crap that you have in your life. You are what you’re thinking. Unfortunately, it’s not just the thoughts that you’re aware of that create your life, it’s just a bit more subtle than that. Actually, more than anything else, you are what you’re thinking subconsciously. Your subconscious mind runs – or ruins – your life. All of your behavior, everything that you do, all your reactions and all your interactions – with those who are close to you, friends, colleagues and even with people who you don’t even know – are all dictated by your subconscious. And the big problem is that, because of the way your subconscious mind is wired, it all just happens automatically.
However, there’s an even bigger problem. Your subconscious mind is full of crap. It’s crap because it has nothing to do with who you are or what you’re supposed to be doing right here, right now. All this crap is a hangover from your childhood, when you were young and impressionable – from your formative years. And, even though all the automatic behavior happens subconsciously, every so often you’re actually aware of the crap. at times you might feel down, stressed, negative or depressed. You might believe that you’re useless, uneasy or inadequate. Sometimes, or in some situations, you might feel nervous or anxious. Maybe you feel that you lack self-confidence or that you’re suffering from low self-esteem. But this is just crap created by crap! This is the crap that has your life on hold – and you let this happen by paying attention, whether you’re aware of it or not, to the crap that’s buried in your head.
All this crap won’t go away – but you can choose whether or not you pay attention to it – either consciously or, in actual fact, subconsciously. That’s what personal development or self improvement is all about. You see, as a grown adult, you can actually take control of your subconscious mind – choose, in each moment, what you’ll pay your attention to. So you’ve got to decide to turn your attention to something real instead of letting your subconscious mind just lead you by the nose into an ever deepening vortex of crap. The only thing that’s really real in your life – the here and now. This is where you can really be the very best you if you could only stop paying attention to all the crap. Pay attention to now – to what you see, feel, hear, smell and taste. This focus will drag your subconscious (sometimes kicking and screaming) away from its natural obsession with all the unreal crap. Normally you don’t actually experience anything real because you see it through the fog of crap. You’ve got to clear the fog – it won’t clear on its own because it’s your personal fog. Clear the fog by realizing that it’s not there at all! There is no fog.
All that’s here is what is here just now. So teach yourself to experience your five senses – make sense of the here and now instead of nonsense. It’s life changing.
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