'Resolution' Articles
Our habits don’t arise from any struggle. Did we have to fight to get into our bad habits? They arose from picturing, from feeling, from entertaining a notion. What would happen if you “imagined” you were happy? A resolution based in imagination instead of the thinking is much more fun. A good resolution is to imagine well.
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” Abraham Lincoln (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them” Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
Imagination Moves Actions
Many people think a resolution can succeed by force of will. Has anyone had that work? I remember a man saying that he had to quit smoking, just by being stubborn. He went back to smoking and died of lung cancer a year later. Had he not had such an extreme stance, he might not have died that year. When the will and the imagination are in contradiction, the imagination wins out every time. Resistance = force applied. The term ‘will power’ seems misguided, and the only ‘will’ I know of that has any substance is our ability to choose.… Seek More
Own Imagination
We all know people who plan well. The best planners are very “imaginative” people aren’t they? The poor planners usually can’t describe what they intend to have happen. They cannot visualise the end result. Some very good planners I know have no imagination, but can focus on an end goal. Ah indeed, and they usually destroy their plan if they try to hold it too rigidly. Imaginative people I know couldn’t plan there way home as their mind is full of the wonders. Ah, I said good planners are imaginative. I didn’t say all imaginative people are good planners. I’m… Seek More
What is Reality?
With regular meditation practice, insight just comes. It isn’t from thinking, but it is hard to ‘understand’ with the thinking mind that insight can come from elsewhere. You’re using the ‘thinking’ to understand ‘not thinking‘, and this is why the spiritual practices advocate meditation to get out of the thinking to understand ‘not thinking’. There is awareness beyond cognition. Imagination is beyond cognition. Cognition is in awareness? It is in it, yes. It is not defining of it. What may be confusing perhaps is that you never create out of totally nothing. It isn’t possible. All imagination stems from reality… Seek More
Character and Vision
We incarnate in a particular form which has a particular receiving mechanism, and beyond that we cannot comprehend. The form serves for a time until the tolerance of the receiving mechanism is exceeded. We are not in fact limited directly by that, but the insights necessary to exceed that limit, to “overclock” our system, seem in short supply or aversive to those who might be candidates. I have heard that it is that particular element that we are receiving that we need to work on in this incarnation? Towards what are we working? Alignment, yet it has been given a… Seek More
Nothing is Random
You know what I am resolved to? Resolution seems to be a place that the flipping coin finally rests, I find that this is an illusion. There seems to be no resolution, only there are points where the coin flips to another side. There is resolution as things do come into focus, and what comes into focus depends on where you are looking. They come into focus like a cloud ‘temporarily, and they create a picture in them of what we would like to see but soon you look back and the cloud and your picture in it are gone. If… Seek More
Our Foundation
The enlightened are called by a new term in modern psychology. They refer to it as being self actualized. My condition is in a sense an enforced nihilism. I am autistic, which means that my very sense impressions seem meaningless. There is something that remains in the face of this. I have learned to function in the face of this. My foundation is shaken. Having your foundation shaken comes because your screen was disrupted, but you did see something. Just because your glasses are broken, you didn’t go blind. I saw too many things in fast progression. Yes, and I… Seek More
Imaginative Resolution
Many people find the concept of resolution really confusing, or feel there is something wrong with them because it just doesn’t seem to work. It’s really pretty simple as most things are when you see the way of them. You resolve to do things all the time. It’s plain and simple decision making. Eat or don’t eat? For most of us this isn’t very complicated. What doesn’t usually get carried over is the understanding. How are you when you make the most simple decisions? We usually spend a lot of time thinking up a goal for the coming year, sometimes very… Seek More
Brain and Mind State
It has been established that the brain hormones respond to neural or sensory stimuli. They are not separate from mind state. It has also been proven that the brain cannot tell the difference between the real and the vividly imagined. Your imagination moves your feelings. You imagine a fear, and you do react to it. The sections of the brain are even localized differently. The imagination or visual processing center is in the hind brain, near the mammalian cortex or emotional brain. Thinking is way up in the forebrain, and under stress the r-complex and mammal brain override the cerebral… Seek More
Trying Resolution
What would happen if you “imagined” you were happy? If you didn’t try to make yourself happy with your thinking? You just imagined you were happy? Do happy people say “I can’t deal with this?” Change what you imagine and can you keep behaving as you did? If you imagine you can quit smoking, really vividly imagine it, convince yourself that you can in your imagination more than you convince yourself you are addicted, what would happen? I would quit! So I have to try that real hard. Actually, you don’t have to try it hard. Trying hard induces problem… Seek More
Conditioned Trying
Trying and focusing are two different things? Yes they are. Your mind focuses all on its own. Sort of a need to know where you are, and what you are doing. “There is do and do not, there is no try”’? Yes, but the ‘do’ or ‘do not do’ element isn’t a moralistic judgment. When you think ‘do not do’ is bad, you twist your actions in your imagination. Which will twist them in execution. When you cook you aren’t analyzing cooking, at least not a familiar dish. If you are cooking a new one you usually don’t do as… Seek More
