Get Grounded

Divinity is not capricious; Divinity is an Infinite Field of Power and therefore, of necessity, has no divisions; There is always freedom of choice; We can describe this world as the maximum opportunity required for the evolution of one's consciousness. Linda's mind swarmed with new ideas and images, and she dedicated hours on the weekends to turning them into her very original art. Linda held onto her office supervisor job, because she still wanted the salary and security, however she began to bring her creativity into even that setting. One day Linda created a training session for her staff in which they came up with ideas for art to make their workplace a more stimulating place. Her staff loved it. Linda laughed in her session with me about how she would probably get fired now by the higher-ups. Of course, she was not fired and you can imagine how much her staff appreciated that oasis in the middle of their paperwork desert. Linda gained victory when she came down squarely on the side of her own interests and insisted upon integrating them into her life rather than disowning them. She found that even as a supervisor in a bureaucracy, she could still operate out of her primary identity as a creative person. Helplessness and hopelessness are psychological defenses against fears of separation from our first families. They make us give up before we do the things that might stir up our anxieties about psychologically leaving home. Other research teams and we have discovered that autobiographical memory is very closely linked to another type of memory, spatial memory, and navigation, helping us to learn and remember how to find out about the world. Additionally, the capacity to think about something that might happen in the future is linked to both navigation and autobiographical memory. Humans have been trying to understand what memory is, how it works, and why it goes wrong since time age-old. This is an essential part of what makes us truly human, and yet it is one of the human attributes that is most elusive and misunderstood. The popular memory image is as a sort of small filing cabinet full of individual memory folders where information is stored away, or as a neural supercomputer of enormous capacity and speed, perhaps. However, these metaphors may not be entirely useful in the light of modern biological and psychological knowledge and, today, experts believe that memory is actually far more complex and subtle than that.

Our memory does not seem to be located in one specific place in the brain, but rather is a brain-wide process in which several different brain areas (sometimes referred to as distributed processing) act in conjunction with each other. For example, the brain is actively and seamlessly reconstructed by the simple act of riding a bike from many various areas: the memory of how to function the bike comes through one area, the memory about how to get from here to the end of the block comes from another, the memory of safety rules for biking from another part, and that nervous feeling comes from another part when a car bends dangerously close. Each memory element (sights, sounds, words, emotions) is encoded in the same part of the brain that created the fragment originally (visual cortex, motor cortex, language area, etc), and memory recall effectively reactivates the neural patterns build during the original encoding. Thus, a better image could be that of a complex web, in which the threads symbolize the different elements of memory that join a person, object, or event at nodes or intersection points to form a whole rounded memory. This is a dimension where choice is unlimited, from the most horrific and gruesome to the most beatific. The world as karmic opportunity calibrates at 600 and is a teaching of the Buddha that reveals all experiences in the world to be an opportunity for spiritual evolution: Rare is it to be born a human; Q: I can see that the mind projects causality where it isn't, and then unconsciously tends to ignore all data to the contrary. To actually discern the cause of anything, I would have to know all that's ever happened throughout all time, because everything is connected to everything else. Is that right? A: You are aware of the limitation of the intellect. The safeguard from being imprisoned by the intellect is humility. The intellect is only capable of doing certain tasks within a certain domain, and beyond that it's an impediment. The intellect is serviceable to the linear domain, not the nonlinear domain. You wouldn't use a hammer to open a can of soup. Let me stress here again that these are the fears and anxieties of childhood. They are the dinosaurs of the psyche and ought to be extinct by adulthood. Because we may not have challenged these fears, however, they retain their impact and make us avoid the very things that could make us happy as grown-ups. Reconnecting With Your Motivation Going where your motivation leads you will be one of the most important achievements of your whole life. Feeling your motivation return means that your life is becoming your own again;

When your subconscious goal is primarily to make your loved ones feel secure, you might reassure them with your failures or simply by limiting your success to an area that brings you no real joy. Recovering your sense of motivation means that you are willing to love your life again. Now we are going to look at how to reconnect with your motivation and how to feel good about following its call. In order to regain your motivation, it helps to understand where motivation comes from and how to cultivate the best frames of mind for it to surface. This sort of distributed memory ensures that some parts of the experience may still remain even if part of the brain is damaged. Neurologists are now starting to understand how to reassemble the components into a cohesive whole. The human brain, one of the universe's most complex living structures, is the seat of memory. Memory is not a single unitary mechanism either, although there are multiple forms of memory. Years of case studies have begun to show some of the complexities of memory processes in patients suffering from accidents and brain-related illnesses and other disorders (especially in elderly people), and the biggest strides have been made in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, but many of the exact mechanisms included remain elusive. The study of human memory extends back at least 2,000 years to the early attempts by Aristotle in On the Soul to understand memory. He compared the human brain to a blank slate in this and theorized that all human beings are born free of any knowledge and are just the sum of their experiences. Compared to making impressions in wax, Aristotle compared memory, sometimes referred to as the storehouse metaphor, a memory theory that, for many centuries, held sway. In terms of personality, intelligence, and social and emotional behavior, supporters of the tabula rasa (blank slate) thesis favor the nurturing side of nature versus nurturing debate. The idea first emerged in an Aristotle treatise, but then lay dormant for more than a thousand years until the 11th-century Persian philosopher Avicenna developed it, and then the 17th-century classic statement of the theory by John Locke. You can't use the intellect to apprehend spiritual reality. Within the linear world of physicality and medicine, we see the intellect's great value to the world. When I started out as a doctor, I was in charge of a large hospital where people were routinely dying of diseases that now don't even exist! Polio hardly exists anymore. The benefits of the 400s have been tremendous, and we respect the intellect. It has been the great benefactor of society.

As one's consciousness level goes up, one becomes more and more beneficial to the world, and those in the 400s make a great impact. The world of science has transformed our lives from sickness, suffering, and misery to relatively painless surgery, childbirth, and recovery from many ailments. The intellect and science are tools for which we are extremely grateful. We don't put down the intellect. Working with clients to help them regain a sense of motivation in their lives, I have found the following suggestions and insights to be helpful: Feed your fascination. Don't be afraid of being selfish. Helplessness may just be inexperience. Expect setbacks. Use persistence and endurance as necessary. Now let's look at how you can use these ideas as guideposts for sustaining your motivation. Feed Your FascinationNotice what fascinates you and follow up on them, a little bit at a time, to whatever degree you are comfortable. Take a small action on behalf of your fascination, however miniscule. The antidote to feelings of helplessness and hopelessness is healthy fascination. In the 20th century, Sigmund Freud revived the concept, portraying personality traits as being formed by family dynamics. In ancient times, two kinds of memory were generally assumed to exist: The natural memory (the innate memory that everyone uses every day) and the artificial memory (trained by learning and practicing a variety of mnemonic techniques, resulting in memory feats that are quite extraordinary or impossible to perform using natural memory alone). Roman rhetoricians such as Cicero and Quintillian applied their theories to medieval scholastics and later Renaissance scholars such as Matteo Ricci and Giordano Bruno on the art of memory or the system of loci (a technique often first attributed to Simonides of Creos or the Pythagoreans). The English philosopher David Hartley of the 18th century was the first to hypothesize that memories were encoded in the nervous system through hidden movements, although at best, his physical theory of the process was rudimentary. William in America and Wilhelm in Germany, both considered among the founding fathers of modern psychology, both carried out some early fundamental research in the 1870s and 1880s on how human memory works (James hypothesized the idea of neural plasticity many years before it was shown).

In 1881, Theodule-Armand Ribot suggested what became known as the Law of Rib, which states that amnesia has a time gradient in that recent memories are more likely to be lost than more distant memories (although this is actually not always the case in practice). It was not until the 1880s mid, however, that the first scientific approach to studying memory was developed by the young German philosopher Herman Ebbinghaus. He performed experiments using syllable lists and then associated them with meaningful words, and some of his findings from this work remain relevant to this day (such as the idea of the learning curve and forgetting curve, and his distinction of the three distinct types of memory: sensory, long-term and short-term ). In 1904, the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon first proposed the idea that experience leaves a physical trace on specific networks of neurons in the brain, which he called an engram. We take pride in it, because if it weren't for the intellect, none of us would be here now! It's simply a matter of accepting that the intellect is limited; Q: What is the world, and how does it serve the evolution of consciousness? A: There are myriad views of the world, and they can be calibrated according to their level of truth: One's view of the world is consequent to the observer's level of consciousness: 485. The world is actually an opportune place for redemption and salvation: 575. I have invented the world I see: 350. The world and the universe are merely passing illusions created by the ego to keep itself separate from God: 220. Human life is an expression of God's Will by which the Godhead fulfills the actualization of infinite potentiality: 560. Humanity descended from the stars and fell from the heavens: 160. Even if you feel you have lost touch with what your original motivations were all about, your capacity for fascination always remains. Fascination holds an answer for you, even if you are not sure what it is. Fascination is more complex and mysteriously compelling than mere curiosity, for it is an instant recognition of the soul's desire. Fascination is different from unhealthy obsession, in which a person tries to fill an empty life with something or someone they want to control. Obsession shrinks your life to objects of possession; Wherever there is fascination, there is motivation.