Hey there Zen Dude.
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I'd like to hear your comments on my view of Personal Development. Do you see it similarly? Do you have a more constructive way of viewing Personal Development? Do you think The Power of Now way of thinking is superior to replacing thoughts?
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When I combine the Power of Now, Tao, and the Holy Trinity, Masaru Emoto's "Hidden Messages in Water", and Austrian Economics I come to an undrstanding of something like this.
When using thought, there are positive thoughts, negative thoughts, and an absence of thought. We use our brains to interact with the world around us to come to a conclusion about what we want. Murray Rothbard, in his book called "Human Action", explains that as humans that interact with our environment and thanks to our nature (survival), we tend to desire. As we look around our environment we can recognize the factors that can be manipulated and those factors than can't. If we think we can manipulate factors within our environment then we strive to achieve our desire (for instance, in the case of Monte Cristo stranded on an island with nothing but his bare hands, "I am hungry, I desire to fulfill my hunger, there is wood I can use to make a spear to hunt a wild boar, therefore because my desire is great enough I will try to kill a boar using a spear that I made) and if we think the environment cannot be manipulated to achieve our desire (it is cloudy and I want sunshine, but I perceive there to be no way to achieve this desire) then the desire is cast aside.
Now, looking at human nature and the brain, if all of human existence has been to desire, determine which desires to pursue by examining the environment for which conditions that can be manipulated exist, and then pursuing those desire which we assume we can achieve then we can begin to understand that the human brain thinks positive, then criticizes and thinks negative or vice versa.
In Emoto's book, "Hidden Messages in Water," him and his team of researchers uncover through scientific research that our thoughts affect the structure of our environment - structure on a basic, molecular level. What he does is place water in jars labeled with messages such as, "love", "peace", "thanks," and "I hate you." Then, after a period of time, he places a drop of water into a petri dish and then freezes it. Once frozen, the dish is placed under a microscope and then allowed to warm to room temperature. At a precise temperature, the frozen drop "blooms" into a crystal or distorts into an unrecognizable shape depending upon which jar the drop of water originated from. He finds that water from the bottles with positive messages form crystal figures, and those with negative messages don't. He then uses this research to help treat patients with life threatening diseases such as leukemia. He takes a picture of the patient and uses his equipment to determine the vibrational frequency of the subject and then gives appropriate messages to water (which is then prescribed to the patient) to counter balance negative frequencies. What Mr. Emoto find's is that sometimes a patient's negative frequencies are so numerous, that finding counter balancing positive frequencies can be difficult.
Mr. Emoto later finds that the molecules in the body react to any message given. For example, imagine a line with a point on each end, one point is positive, the other negative. If there is no line and simply a point, negative, then an opposite positive thought will create a line thus creating balance. Now imagine that there is a higher point, above the line that makes a triangle. It doesn’t matter which point is showing, or even if there is an entire line, if the focus is now put upon this higher point, the entire triangle becomes in balance with much more ease then trying to find an exact opposite for the negative point (imagine a triangle made of wire with the points described above, then hang this triangle from a hook. The entire triangle will eventually balance.)
This is where the Trinity comes into play; Love. If there is something positive, and something negative and we would like to overcome both (or one or the other) because we are not sure which is right and which is wrong, then we can simply love; in fact love, silence, stillness, space, balance are all apart of that which cannot be named, that which the Tao points to. To do this in our mind, we have positive thoughts and negative thoughts occurring at the same time (or periodically depending upon the person’s characteristics). If we use the Power of Now and recognize that all thought is part of that which can be named, or that which is material (the ego), then we can understand that there is a part of us that is much more vast. If we let our thoughts just be as they are, take a breath when we are being overcome by ego then we are choosing to love that which is. We therefore need not concern ourselves between positive and negative and can simply love (by providing ourselves the space of stillness that a conscious breath brings) and therefore raise our consciousness level to that of love thus aligning our consciousness to where I came from...Love