March 2016

28 Mar

How To Live A Wonderful Life - Part One

by Jeremy Chance

When you wake up in the morning – what is your first thought?

What do you usually feel – excitement, sleepiness, dread?

We are literally creatures of habit – fully 99% of our functioning runs on automatic. Neuro-scientists have yet to find a distinct part of the brain that runs our “will power” – it’s still a mystery how that works...

All our systems interact and rely on each other to know what to do: all based on the learning of our past. Our past throws us into our future, and it operates with an unerring consistency.

13 Mar

When Your Past Pretends to be Your Future

by Jeremy Chance

What could you say if I commanded you:

“Go and look for it NOW!”

An obvious rejoinder is:

“Look for WHAT?!”

To which I’d say:

“Exactly; you’ll know when you find it.”

People who seek, seek to find the unknowable.

Truth starts out in the dark. It shines once you find it, which is how you know you found it.

Self-growth is like that. Your dark is where you have no awareness of how you are generating the problems you are experiencing.

11 Mar

Do You Need An Off Switch?

by Jeremy Chance

What is your kind of holiday?

Here I am in Melbourne, early morning at David’s place, my teenage daughters still sleeping with a cup of tea at hand. Relaxing. Or am I?

What is ‘relaxing’ - what research has been done into this?

One study I can think of was completed by Dan Buettner (you can watch his Ted talk at this link). Dan’s team collected information on the behaviours of 5 communities that have a statistically abnormal number of centenarians in their midst.