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Master Mind Series (Pt. 2)
Welcome back to the Master Mind Series Today we are focusing on the subconscious mind. This portion of the min is known as the emotional mind. It's the bottom half of the mind diagram from the Introduction To The Mind article in the beginning of this series. The conscious mind is so fascinating and equally powerful. As humans, we are emotional creatures, and being such, emotions drive our actions that ultimately control our results. The subconscious is the portion of the mind that controls all of our habitual behavior, and most of our behavior is habitual. Think about your morning routine, when you wake up, chances are you do just about the same thing, in the same way, every single day. How many other aspects of your life are you living in a similar way? The emotional mind, unlike the conscious mind, has no ability to reject information. It functions much like a sponge and absorbs every thought, word, feeling and stores it. Let's think of the conscious mind as the internet, and the subconscious mind as the "Deep web" an ocean, vast of hidden information that we have collected consciously or unconsciously throughout our entire life, especially as a child.
By Trevor Feely7 years ago in Motivation
How to Know If You're in the Midst of a Spiritual Awakening
I can't explain it too well, but I had feelings leading up to that moment—feelings as though a big change would happen soon. Almost as if a new person was going to be born, or that I would change immensely. And I did!
By 7 years ago in Motivation
The Artist... The Nurse... The Servant
It’s the Fall of 2008. I’m a senior at the University of Miami studying Music Education. I’m in the top two ensembles singing Alto. I’m growing spiritually in Christ. Making new friends. Studying a mixture of the two things I love: education and music. I couldn’t be happier.
By Fran LaVoix7 years ago in Motivation
Walking into Deep Time
A silver doorknob. Aluminium? I suppose. A little loose, somehow, so it catches when I turn it—but wait, before I turn the knob I’ve got to reach up to the top lock—my mother calls it “the double lock”—and turn its much smaller knob to the right to open it. Now I can turn the doorknob. Now I am pulling open the metal door of my parents’ apartment, now I am stepping across the threshold to see, just to my left, a poster from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beneath my feet, sturdy brown carpet scrolls all the way down the long hallway to the elevators, fifteen or twenty steps away. A mirror opposite the four lifts, the metal call buttons I still think of as “new”, even though they were installed when I was a teenager. I’m fifty years old now, and my parents have been dead for a dozen years, but their apartment, this hallway, remains—I believe—perfectly contained in my mind and heart, and so in my imagination, I decide to talk a walk, beginning here, in the place I tell myself I still know best.
By Erica Wagner7 years ago in Motivation
The Most Important Decision I Ever Made
CW: trauma, assault The most important decision I ever made came at a time of great trauma. After the first HugTrain, I moved to London. It was, I thought, a dream come true. During my first month there, I got mugged by four teens at a deserted commuter train station. It was dark. I was late meeting a friend and my phone had died. They pushed me up against a wall and rifled through my pockets. One of them even whispered in my ear, “Make it easy on yourself. Don’t fight back.” When it was all over and I was in a daze, I hit the police button on the platform and they came and drove me home after taking my statement. The muggers had taken everything. My money, my cards, my passport, my laptop. Everything. I had a choice to make in that moment. A few choices. I could choose to hate that ethnic group. I could choose to hate London. I could choose to feel betrayed by the universe after having devoted myself and a lot of my own money turning a vacation into a mission of service (I only started crowdfunding HugTrain after my last brain injury in 2012).
By Arié Moyal7 years ago in Motivation
When I Became a Man
When I decided to write this book, I did it for therapeutic reasons. My therapist (at that time) suggested that I write a journal about my day to day activity. At first, I resisted. I didn’t see how important it was to do it. But putting everything in print means that I don’t have any reason to hold on to it anymore; in therapy I learned to let go my anger and pain but it’s liberating when you write it down.
By John H. Burkhalter III7 years ago in Motivation
Giving Back to Me
Starting to live my best life Happy 40th year to me; it’s been a long and twisting road, but I've made it: the view of life in my 40s is different than the view I had in my 30s and 20s, my body has changed, and so has my outlook on who I thought I should be.
By angela mckendrick7 years ago in Motivation
Self Love Is All Love
December 2018, I had a profound realization that I do love myself. Maybe it was the psychedelic mushrooms coursing through my blood stream, or maybe that feeling I waited my whole life for was true in that moment. I thought to myself, as the tears slid down my cheeks and the vibrations of feeling fully radiated off of my skull, is this what it feels like to love myself?
By Blair Welcome7 years ago in Motivation
Cameron Scott
Sometimes we are called to step past our biggest FEARS! I have always been a very private person, I have never sought out fanfare, or wished to be seen in an audience. I am a pretty shy and quiet person for the most part. Sure I have made some noise in my life, especially when I was in the throws of my drug and alcohol addictions over a decade ago. I did and said some things that I really wish I could unsay and undo. But, I decided in April of 2009 to choose life and sobriety over death and alcohol and have been sober ever since. My early years in sobriety were just spent trying to figure out what life looked like with out drugs and alcohol. I spent a lot of time by myself just searching for "who I really was" at that point in my life.
By Cameron Scott7 years ago in Motivation
