Our World Revisited: Super Hero Crock!

                                         Lets just jump right in here. Super heroes don't exist! Yes we loved them as children and we still love feeding into the humor of their possibly being a human with super-human abilities that dresses up in costumes and saves the world from evil and potential danger. We love feeding this crock to our children along with other misleading conceptions that form negative thinking patterns inside their minds at an early age. As harmless as it may seem to let your child believe in these media-bred personalities and characters, the effects of it is seen when the toys are put away and your child is now an adult who has low self-esteem and a poor self image. You will be surprised to find that there are many successful and seemingly established adults who walk around with low self-esteem and a poor self image that they've learned to cope and rationalize very well, even to the point where it becomes hidden from others and even themselves so that they are able to lead a good life. Anything that you once believed in does not magically disappear. These beliefs become irrelevant in your conscious mind as you become and adult (because adults don't believe in superheroes....hopefully) and so they are stored in the subconscious mind which dictates 99.9% of your daily actions. Your conscious mind will never be able to override your subconscious mind. If so there would be no need for psychologists. So you see the problem? When an adult finds himself thinking and feeling a certain way about himself its because if the thoughts that have accumulated in his subconscious mind. If you made the connection between unrealistic beauty and princesses as a child, it would not help for you to pick up a magazine or flick on the television and see seemingly "perfect" models, even if you feel you could go for one of them because at the slightest evidence that you may not be able to then your self esteem will plummet and so will your self image. This is not healthy. Nothing should be able to have this type of control over you. The same happens with people who once believed in superheroes as a child. As a child these beliefs get stored in your subconscious mind and inadvertently cause you to feel a certain way about yourself. As you get older the media takes the place of these childhood beliefs and re-establishes them or confirms them in order to make money, for if you felt you were perfect would you look at magazines that tell you that you aren't? Would you spend money on a new wardrobe if you believed you were perfect without one? And most importantly if you once believed that there are humans that are "super" out there then this may subconsciously result in an inferiority complex and as a result, a poor self-image.
                                            Super hero crock tells the subconscious mind that people can have qualities you can't have. The conscious mind sees a superhero. The subconscious mind sees something you cannot do because you don't have super-human qualities. Dangerous! No one has super human qualities! This is why you find some people who are overly self-conscious, depressed for an unknown reason in the present moment, or a suffering from insecurities. Even anxiety can result from this type of belief because you will subconsciously feel like you're not measuring up or that you're not doing enough, causing you to feel anxious or panicky for no real reason at all.
                                             Another thought super hero crock tells the subconscious mind is that humans are helpless creatures who constantly need protecting. Under this belief children always look up to super heroes and its part of the fun mysticism of being a child. However these beliefs, once you are an adult (and no longer believe in super heroes anymore) get stored in your subconscious mind and gives way to elusive feelings of helplessness or the thought that you must be saved or protected. The problem here is that you are the person who can save you! You are the only person who can truly help you, but with this belief causing stinky fumes in your subconscious mind you will most likely relinquish when it comes to taking initiative and become helpless for no apparent reason. Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in your hormones...its caused by a mental imbalance in terms of thinking.
                                         So what am I to do, you say? If you find yourself in any of these situations caused by the stored thoughts in your subconscious mind then you must immediately form contradicting thoughts to the ones inside your subconscious mind. How do you do this? Look around you! Observe everything and everyone around you and assume you know nothing more than what you see. Humans are humans once you stop looking through the lens of your insecurities and preconceived thoughts of inferiority. There are no super heroes around you! We are all the same and whatever I can do is your capability as well. Instead of trusting in your thoughts observe everything around you. You  will see mistakes, mishaps, flukes, imperfections, and your subconscious thoughts in super hero crock will weaken into non-existence. When this happens you will no longer feel helpless. In fact, you will feel like a super hero!

Our World Revisited: Love Uncomplicated

                              As you begin your day, thinking of all that must be done and all that has already been done, all that you want to do, and all that you wish not to do, it is easy for life to become a rat race, pushing you in the direction of the flow of traffic, making sure things keep going as it should, like the hands of a clock, life keeps going. There is time for thinking. There is time for feelings and emotions, desires and dreams, there is time for wonder and exploration, but this is minimal. Society builds itself off of this fact, that its common to speed through a day, popular to rush past the beauty of life in a hurry to reach an unknown yet overrated destination. Where are you going? This is the question that love asks each and every one of us day after day...but we ignore it for the voice of the media, for the voices of doubt and unbelief, for anything thats moving faster than its thinking. Forgetting is common as you rush through your daily routine but love is the purpose of all that is...this should never be forgotten, by-passed, or ignored...for once it is you must face the question of, "What am I living for?"
                                          When can love be contradicted or called into question, determined as untrue, or deemed unsufficient? The answer is never. There is nothing that exists on Earth that was not a product of love...however if there is a choice, it is natural for humanity to reject the things that sustain them, just look at the decay of the environment and the natural world around us. The things we need we reject, as if somehow we created them, as if we help them to survive. Love is one of the most complicated entities to humanity because of the mere fact that we cannot control it, bottle it, manufacture it, sell it, or do away with it. This causes us to become frustrated with love, frustrated with nature, frustrated with life, and all the things we cannot predict or make with our own hands. How selfish can we be to deprive ourselves of something we cannot live without? Are we not alive? When love is complicated, so is the progression of our world. Its like watching yourself sink into a pit when you have the ability to crawl out of it and be safe.
                                        Among the many answers right under our noses, love can become uncomplicated by three methods of approaching life. These methods are forgiveness, acceptance, and humility. Afterall, it is rather hard to complicate love when you are constantly accepting the circumstances in which it brings you, always forgiving the people it places in your life, and always being humble enough to know you need it to survive. Stop. Think. Do not live your life as a loveless robot. It would be a pity to have life pass you by while you're searching so desperately for it. This is the thing that life will not tell you...one of the things it chooses to reveal to you after all is said and done...or after you read this blog post..

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Our World Revisited: Less Than Meets The Eye

                   Have you ever noticed that problems and unwanted circumstance seem to take center stage, stealing attention and focus from the good things that are happening all around us? Problems and conflicts are rude. They are loud and they're boisterous, demanding our time, mind space, and money. Though it is our human nature to magnify that which demands immediate attention in our lives, this is not always a good idea seeing as though problems that are magnified are not solved as a result of its magnification. They still remain problems and now appear bigger than they really are because you magnified them. Shining light on problems will only bring insight if you fully understand what needs to be done to fix or eliminate that problem. Its like buying tools to fix something you do not know how to fix. In the end you waste time and energy flustering over the problem and no real progress has been made, just a lot of headaches, worrying and less observation on what is working in your life. Sometimes we must realize that just as there is more than meets the eye, there is also less than meets the eye as well. In fact 90% of the problems one has is due to the magnification of a smaller problem, causing this one problem to develop into many problems, particularly health issues due to worry and depression. Where there is less, magnification makes more. Chances are the problem or conflict is less than how its appearing to be to you for we as humans are naturally prone to collecting facts and putting them together to form a conclusion and this conclusion is always magnified if its not in our best interest or is not what we prefer to have exist.
                                         You may be thinking that seeing a situation or circumstance as less than what it appears to be is a lot like being in denial however there is a distinct difference between the two! Denial takes place when one is clearly aware of a fact but denies its existence. Denying that something exists is not the same as denying its impact on your life, for we are not able to decide whether something exists or not (it will exist whether we acknowledge it or not), however we can decide how we see that existence, what it means to us, and how it affects our lives. In life there are crucial balances between knowing what we have control over and what we do not....but that's a whole other topic! When you understand these balances, the magnification of problems and conflicts in your life will seem irrational and illogical, thus eliminating the factors that could have branched off from the one problem you saw as more than what it really was. Examples of these problems could be anything. Many people magnify their financial problems, marital conflicts, social dilemmas, and even health issues. You may have bills that must be payed  however the magnification of this fact does not pay any of them. Having a disagreement with a spouse is common however the magnification of what makes the two of you disagree causes more disagreements. Everyone encounters a social dilemma at some point in their lives but highlighting this fact only decreases your chances of associating with someone who may be able to help you out of the dilemma. Not to mention all of the people who go to the doctor to shine light on what they believe is a health issue and leave with 10 different diagnostics and  medications that each create their own health issue. So now what was once a common cold and could cured with a bit of lemon and honey is now many other issues. In conclusion, consider love. A conflict can seem  overwhelming in our eyes, so large and encompassing of all other beliefs and what we were once sure of. However, all can be reestablished, reconciled, and recompensed with the tiniest acknowledgement of loves presence. Then we see that what once mattered so much, matters less if at all. Like the magnification of a bonsai tree can make a miniature scenery look so real, life's challenges can appear so real until we take a step back and see that it was less than meets the eye.

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Our World Revisited: The Journey Home

                       Ambition has a distinct power to propel you in the direction that you want to go, so much so that it appears like you were made for the journey you embark on. There is so much more to discover and the path ahead of you beckons you further, driven by your inner motives, dreams, and desires. However, what you will eventually find evident is that the further you go in your journey the less you appear to know or are certain of. The things you once knew become a mere glimpse as you see that you have yet to scratch the surface of what appeared to be so clear to you at one point. This factor is present in all areas of life and it is why life is seen as a constant journey where you're always learning, growing, and responding to your world. This can be intimidating at times for on any journey you chose to embark there are factors such as the fear of the unknown, unfamiliar surroundings, and the anxiety to reach your destination. These factors can hinder your process, which is the entire purpose of the journey to begin with. Even the most proficient mountain climber or well experienced hiker leaves trail marks to find his way back to where he started from for most likely at this location he will find water, food, all of his supplies, and other things he packed for his journey. In life, a trail mark can be an encouraging word, a distinct promise, or a defining moment of your life. It can be a reassurance of your journey's purpose and even the comfort of what you already know to be true. These trail marks in your journey are important and necessary in eliminating the factors that can hinder you on any journey.
                        Just as a shelter, coat, or blanket keeps you dry from the rain, so does the memory of encouraging words or deeds in times of uncertainty. The fear of what we do not know can never be stronger than encouragement because it keeps on giving! Every time you remember it a new faith and a sturdy hope is given to you for your journey, and guess what? You can always come back to it! That's the good part! No matter how far you go it will serve as a trail mark to lead you back to confidence, and reassurance which is so important on any journey so take encouraging words to heart!
                       Promises can be broken, however there is strength in those that last forever. To know that something or someone is keeping a promise towards you causes you to believe in yourself all the more and this is what keeps the ambition flowing on a journey that seems purposeless and sometimes a total waste. When you apply a promise to unfamiliar surroundings, its like painting the bare walls of a room and giving it the life and color that you are familiar and accustomed to. Now you can call that place home! As rare as they are, promises can be made to you by anyone or anything. You can even promise yourself something! Close your eyes and picture you standing in front of your own self. Promise yourself that you will do everything you can to succeed and that you will never give up on you.
                     There is something about a defining moment in a person's life that makes it so. Whatever it is about that moment stays with them and makes them who they are today, whether good or bad. In this case a defining moment for the better will help you get rid of an anxiety to reach your destination. When you are anxious you rarely consider processes or other related factors attached to what you're anxious for. You just want it and you want it now! However a defining moment in your life shows you that in time the thing you desire will be yours and this too will be a defining moment of your life just as all the others were. Before anyone graduates from school they are so anxious to, and then they finally do. Then they become anxious for the next thing in their life. If you place a defining moment as a trail mark in your journey of life you will understand that you are the person who succeeded in that particular journey. Why should now be any different?
                       When your ambition takes you farther than you've ever gone before there is no need to fear the unknown, or unfamiliar surroundings. You also don't have to anxious for your destiny for the trail marks of encouragement, a promise, and a defining moment of your life will lead guide you in the reassurance and purpose of your journey, otherwise called home.

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Our World Revisited: On The Horizon

                                            Nature's beauty is so diverse, so inspiringly unique and upredictable despite the efforts of man to understand it. In nature there is so much we will never know or understand but accept because it must be so inorder for humanity to enjoy this beautiful place we call home.Why can't we feel the same way about life? Life is so much like this at times. Its diverse, inspiringly unique, and sometimes unpredictable. Certainly there are things we will understand or know about but must learn to accept as part of life inorder to truly enjoy having it, just as in nature. One of the phenomenons of nature is that of a horizon. Its simple, yet deeply complex in terms of our biosphere, carrying with it the rise and setting of the sun. In our lives, sunrise can mean the beginning of brand new opportunities or the start of a better future, the time where our dreams become reality. However, the sunrise will always lead to a sunset, a time in our lives where dreams seem so unreachable and faith becomes a rare commodity. This is where we can look at nature and see the significance of both. Sunrise and sunset on the same horizon are both beautiful and cohesive to our biosphere and so should be the same way in our lives. Living for the best times in your life helps you to look forward to more of them and also helps you to embrace the times we feel is not the best so that we can make the best of every day we live.
                              The sunrise of our lives signals that a new day has just begun! New chances appear to us, and bigger opportunities appear on the horizon! Everything is attainable and seeing automatically helps us to believe. However what happens when we don't see? Think positively still. Yes, seeing is believing but inorder to see we must first believe! Live for the great moments of your life, for the sunrises that bring new days and a chance to hope and believe again.
                              At the end of every day there can be seen a sunset on the horizon. At this time the sun is going down and the light is giving way to the darkness. Sometimes there will be sunsets in your life but we must not live for them, but embrace them as being apart of getting to the next sunrise. Nature is a silent teacher but sometimes the lessons are loud and clear.

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