Blue Trees and Global Meltdown ! Whatever you do while reading this blog, I want you to promise yourself that at no time will you think of a blue tree… No, I said whatever you do, don’t think of a blue tree – and isn’t it strange how you can sit minding your own business reading this blog, totally oblivious of the tongue in your mouth until someone comes along and mentions it… Oh did I, are you? sorry, I was just twittering along on the keyboard, not consciously thinking of the effect my musings would have on your thoughts and ultimately your behaviour. You see, the thing with the unconscious mind is it can’t process a negative, so if I …. Well you get my gist.. blue trees and all that. Because the unconscious mind can’t process a negative it has to think of the negative before it can focus on the not thinking of it.. so, if you are told not to focus on a blue tree, the unconscious mind, however fleetingly, has to think of a blue tree before it can think of not thinking of a blue tree. And so it is with our focus … We get exactly what we focus on. We attract exactly what we are focusing on. How many times have you driven out of the from the car showroom in that special limited edition car, certain that this time, in this colour, with this spec, no one else can possibly have one like yours… only to see an identical model at the traffic lights around the corner? Or how many times have you been to that huge concert venue or sports stadium only to bump in to someone from across the street or from the office? The law of attraction dictates that the universe will draw us to exactly what we are focused on. There have always been hundreds of those cars driving around on your journey to work; you just haven’t been focusing on them. In all probability, thousands of people have pushed past you or crossed your path at the O2 before you notice your neighbour. The thing is, you don’t recognise anyone until you see your neighbour, so consciously you believe that the first people you have seen are your neighbours or the guy from the next office.
You see what I mean, we see, or we get, exactly what we are focusing on.
You can’t help but notice that in recent weeks and months the media have been focusing almost entirely on the doom and gloom of global recession, and guess what, the more we talk about it, the more we read about it, the more likely it seems that we are hurtling ever quicker in to a global economic melt down!! Is there any surprise? In today’s 24 hour news society, the media is immensely powerful in creating and accelerating global outcomes. Simply by generating a sequence of headlines, discussions, debates and column inches then so we begin to create that outcome. The media Cause the circumstances that we choose to Effect our thinking.
Stop and think about it, in reality how different are you to the person you were 12 months ago? And yet how differently do you feel about your current or short-term future today, compared to 12 months ago? Significantly and sadly, when I’ve asked people that question in recent days the majority of replies I get are very much in the negative. Without realising why, the majority of people I talk to today are feeling much less confident about their future today than they were 12 months ago. Why? Because they are choosing to allow the media to place them at effect. The media is causing their effect!!
What if you were one of those savvy people who could choose to Create your own outcomes?
What if you were one of those people who could recognise just how many opportunities remaining in abundance all around you?
What if you chose to always be at cause for your life and your outcomes? While you and others are panicking today, the savvy are Creating their Fabulous Future. We all choose the behaviours we adopt. We all choose how to Internally Represent the external events going on around us and as a consequence we all choose whether to fold or play. We choose whether to Cause our Fabulous Future or to allow others such as media headlines to effect our lives and outcomes.
Just a thought….. Nigel
