Lesson 1 - Who's Minding Your Mind?

Lesson 1

 

The most powerful tool for the transformation of the world is at your disposal.  Mind is the decision-maker, the powerhouse behind creativity.  Mind takes you beyond daily experience into the realm of vision - and can make it come true.  Mind is filled with emotional highs and lows, fears and joys, anger and forgiveness.  Mind calms and mind destroys.

And mind is yours to use.

 

Let’s get started

with a little story:

 

          Three employees walk into a bar together, a professor, a zombie and a monk.

After they sit next to each other at the bar the bartender asks the professor, “What do you do?”

The professor myopically focuses on the bartender through thick glasses, and proudly answers, “I am an analyst. I research endlessly, compare one fact to another, and come to excruciating carefully debated and then logical conclusions. Analysis is I my life.”

The bartender turns to the zombie and asks, “What do you do?”

The zombie rears forward toward the bartender, eyes rotating wildly in his scarred face. With saliva dripping from torn and bloody mouth he hisses at the bartender growling his answer, “What do I do?” he responds, his voice rising into a rant. “What do I do? You actually ask me what I do?” And he starts screaming now at the top of his lungs.

“I REACT! That’s what I DO!” And breathing heavily the zombie sits back down glaring wildly at the bartender.

The bartender, used to all sorts of characters who come into his bar just turns calmly to the final employee and asks, “What do you do?”

The monk serenely answers, “Nothing. I just am.”

Then the bartender intrigued in spite of himself, asks them all one last question, “What company do you all work for?”

The professor sits up straighter, the zombie sneers and glares, hands on the counter ready to pounce, and the monk closes his eyes and gently smiles.

They answer together, “Your Mind.”

 

Thoughts to Contemplate

and discuss

 

1.     Take time to notice which part of your mind is prominently in charge during the day – the professor, the zombie or the monk. (This may not be as simple as you think because it will be easy to mislabel or ignore them.)

 

2.     Are you willing to learn how to recognize more accurately who is in charge of your mind?

 

3.     Are you willing to learn how to gain peaceful control of your mind?

 

If the answer is ‘yes’ to #2 and #3, then stick around and have fun and gain insight as you continue this course.