May 14
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Integration of the Mind – Part Twenty-Nine
-Once We “Get” This, We Can Easily Get That-
The resistance to move is below the water.
If we can truly understand that it is not what we want, consciously, that accomplishes our deepest desires, but what we believe deeply, subconsciously, that rules us …we may be willing to begin doing something that works; that is, to examine those subconscious beliefs and change them …particularly if we see that they are neither true nor are they serving us any longer; in fact, we may discover that these beliefs, some of which we are totally unaware, are creating obstacles to achieving those things we consciously believe are true and by which we want to live.
I didn’t think I was going to discuss hypnosis any further, but here we go again, I have said repeatedly that I believe hypnosis in the right hands can be a highly useful tool and in the wrong hands can be highly dangerous.
A true story popped into my mind of a friend and business associate who was able to stop smoking by use of hypnosis, but the side effects ultimately caused his death …and because, well, you know how I love to tell true stories, as well as reminisce, so I just, finally, resisted the urge and asked, what now?
To change your perception, add some light from a different perspective.
Immediately I saw how ridiculous it is to tell fear-based stories about anything! Yes there are dangers in just about every normal activity we engage in …surely it must be true that every day, somewhere in the world, a car or truck goes off the road and somebody out for a stroll gets killed. Does that mean you shouldn’t take a walk?
So now, that I’m obviously being restrained from telling the story, “What now?”
“Perceptual reality.”
Well, we all know that, basically, those words refer to the fact that whatever goes on in the individual minds of humans tends to form their perceptions, to them, INDIVIDUALLY of reality. Each of us does that to varying degrees, which means that what we have adjudged as “reality” is, at the very least, different from what everyone else has concluded is reality for them, INDIVIDUALLY. I’m gonna go to my good friend Google and see what variations of definitions are available for this term, “perceptual reality.”
You see illusions every day all the time.
Oh my, I’m glad I did …for one thing the term used in every reference I came to was “perception reality” the reason being that “perceptual” is an adjective …and so? (I ask) I’ll leave it up to you to do more research if you happen to be interested – meanwhile I found the following and it is so funny, to me, I thought it was worth sharing:
[Quote] “Perception versus Reality – it’s a phrase I think most of us have heard before and it isn’t too difficult to understand its meaning. Basically, it purports that what you think is real isn’t actually real. Some common examples where this phrase comes into consideration:
“Perception: Bob thinks he is a great singer.
“Reality: The very sound of Bob singing makes nuns drop to their knees, turn their face to the Heavens and say ‘Sweet Jesus save me! Satan is amongst us!’
“Perception: Bob thinks that if he trained he could run a mile under 4 minutes.
“Reality: Bob would pull a muscle in 10 feet and claim that the sun was in his eyes.
“Perception: Bob thinks his hair color makes him look old.
“Reality: The silvery luster of his hair is actually irresistible to women…in nursing homes.
“See what I mean? Perception vs. reality, pretty simple right? Wrong!”
[End of quote]
To build something that lasts, you need an integrated team.
I’m not going to go back to give credit to the person who wrote that preamble or to finish the excellent point I felt he was making, but if you go onto Google, it was the third or fourth one down from the top of the list.
Here’s a scientifically proven fact of something many of us knew long before scientists proved it. There are those who are victims of reality and those who create it, we all have the ability to create new realities …but I suggest that a new, and then sustained success-reality cannot be realized without a mind that is completely integrated with each part in congruence – a team working diligently and seamlessly toward the same end.
I have a few private clients who are owners of businesses. I won’t take on a private client unless I am convinced that he or she is highly motivated to get past the roadblocks and obstacles that are in the way of their consciously conceived goals …the first thing I do is to see if they are open to realizing the point made in the opening paragraph of this segment.
I admit to being redundant anyway, so let’s repeat it here: “If we can truly understand that it is not what we want, consciously, that accomplishes our deepest desires, but what we believe deeply, subconsciously, that rules us …we may be willing to begin doing something that works to examine those subconscious beliefs and change them …particularly if we see that they are neither true nor are they serving us; in fact, we may discover that these beliefs, some of which we are totally unaware, are creating obstacles to achieving those things we consciously believe are true and by which we want to live.”
The resistance to move is below the water. Oops I said that already.
It is time to review something: Back in #26 I referenced four points of view about how the mind is compartmentalized …and about the third one I listed being somewhat close to the point of view I currently have (which, I always add about those things I happen to believe …doesn’t make it true), about the totality of the human mind – let’s quote it directly: “A third point of view, the one toward which I currently lean, is that within the mind of these body-bags we occupy is a super-consciousness which some refer to as the “higher self,” which is the part of the human mind that is the connector between supreme intelligence and the more limited, albeit when fully integrated, very powerful human mind.
It is here that I insist upon digressing – sit down and pay attention, Mr. Publisher, (Ryan often chides me for digressing).
I’ve been involved in what I now refer to as business and personal LIFE coaching for roughly forty-five years. Until recently I refused to take any money for doing it. I still offer a way for people to get the benefits without paying anything.
Do you have a subconscious way of saying no to money?
Two directors of a nationwide association of, and for, small and medium sized businesses with which I am associated, have both insisted for several years that I need to charge individual coaching clients a fee.
Until recently, I have resisted the notion of taking money almost religiously, saying that “what I had received freely I give the same way – freely.” One of the two referenced directors, about four months ago, asked me a troubling question: Are you hanging onto that premise because it is your religion, or have you asked SPIRIT if it should be true for you today?
I had to admit that I had not asked, thanked him and did so. The answer I received was a shocker for me, basically I “heard” that by refusing to consider being paid was “plugging up the pipeline of financial resources not only for me, but for those who were willing and even wanted to pay.
I still tell everyone that they don’t need me, especially related to emotional and physical healing – because SPIRIT does the work, I just know how to get into the zone to facilitate that.
In Sacramento, California …circa 1985, a couple who owned a dry cleaning business challenged me …when I refused to take their offer to pay me. What she said, with her husband nodding in agreement, “God gave us our business, and does that mean we are supposed to give the service away to our customers?”
What is going on here? What perception are you acting on?
I told them that I understood their position, but was adamant in my refusal to take any money from them. It was at the close of a two-day session in a private residence, with about eight or ten people in attendance. At the end of the session, I was packing my stuff into my car, getting ready to drive north to Canyonville, Oregon for the next scheduled session …this one with about thirty-five people in a huge home on several acres.
The dry-cleaning couple came out to the car and handed me a sealed envelope – he said, “We just asked and were told to give you this,” and she added, “And if the check isn’t processed by our bank within 10 days, I will personally hunt you down, do you understand me?”
She was not smiling, I replied with something lame like, “well as much as I’d love to see you guys again, I guess I’d better deposit it” …and folded the envelope and stuffed it in my shirt pocket – again, unsmilingly, she said, “Yes you’d better.”
About two hours later, I stopped at a restaurant, while headed north toward Oregon; I opened the envelope, using a table knife as a letter opener, and practically gasped …the check was for $1200 …equivalent to at least twice that amount in today’s dollars.
What’s my point? Well, this is about the Integration of the Mind, correct?
The thought popped into my mind when I just now wrote the foregoing question, that I was justifying charging fees for coaching.
Yikes, I exclaimed, out loud, “I’d better delete the whole foregoing story …what now?”
What I “heard” in response was a mind-blower and a perfect example of internal mental and emotional conflict …the very thing I have been sharing with people for over thirty years that gets in the way of receiving healing and insights to what is available to them.
This leads us into what is coming next:
Integration of the Mind – Part Thirty
-Brad Cullen Admits His Own Conflict!-