Inceptionare your thoughts really your own ?I’m raving about Inception the new Christopher Nolan film at the moment. It’s one of the best flicks to come along in a long time. But could it possibly happen? That is, could someone implant a thought in your mind, in such a way that you would never know and think it’s yours? Well, the answer is yes! In fact we do it all the time. But not in as sinister a way as the film projects. Each of us is walking around with other people’s thoughts in our heads all the time. Every time you talk to someone about some new idea you’re excited about you plant a new thought in their head. It’s called seeding. The whole New Age culture tells you your thoughts are creating your reality. Now this is true but it’s only part of the story. Most of your thoughts are complete nonsense and will create nothing other than a bit of indigestion. But thoughts are big business at the moment and there’s a bit of hysteria too (remember the Secret?) to the extent that some people are frightened of their thoughts. There’s even a new medical term for it, it’s called ‘new age angst’. You have something like 90,000 thoughts going through your head every day. I read this statistic somewhere, I don’t know if anybody actually counted them. I doubt it. 90,000. That’s a lot of thoughts! Then there are all the unconscious (that word again!) ones, see the unconscious mind How on earth are you going to watch them? What if a one escaped? Perish the thought (ouch! nasty pun). There could be a thought of yours out there right now doing untold damage. It may spark off another banking crisis. The UN may have to investigate. If I see it I’ll box its ears and send it back to you. Just make sure you put a padlock on it and not let it escape again. Just imagine if every thought you had manifested into reality. How chaotic would that be. Maybe you shouldn’t imagine it. You never know how powerful you are! In truth only what you think about repeatedly, on a regular basis, with intent will come about. So you can relax. Your thoughts are not dangerous. But they are powerful. Do you persistently think about financial ruin, because you hear so much about it these days, or the state of your health, or any other worry you may care to mention? Well, if you do this may have a detrimental effect on your life. At a very core level what you think about is creating what you bring about (your life). But most of what goes through our minds on a day to day basis is simply effluent. Sludge that carries the few gems to the shore. A snapshot of daily unfocussed thought Let’s take a typical average guy. We’ll have a sneak peek at his thought streaming. "I’m going be late for work again, should I bother getting out of bed? I wonder how my are shares doing, never have much luck on the markets. I hope Maria remembered to book that holiday we were talking about, I’d love to get away. Must email John today, and remember that call to George. Now where will I have lunch, not that awful place we went to last week, oh I hope I’m not asked to make the presentation on Friday night, I hate speaking in public. I wish I could find a better job, I can never seem to make enough money, I hope there’s something decent on tv tonight". And so on. And so on. Not forgetting the 90,000 other thoughts in between! What color are your thoughts ? What are thoughts anyway? What does a thought look like? Is it a little skinny fellow, shrivelled up, or round and plump and happy with itself like one of those emoticons? Can we measure a thought? Can we weigh it? Where do they come from? Do they just drop down from the sky and pop into your head, or do you generate them in your brain? Is there a miniature factory in there that churns out millions of thoughts? People often say ‘that thought just popped into my head’. How do they know? And if so how did it do this? Did it come in through their ear? You need to watch that. Can you catch a thought from someone else, the way you would a cold? Of course. Thoughts are transmitted from one brain to another all the time, through conversation, reading, also telepathically. This is how creativity works. You can get a thought from the fellow next to you on the bus or you can get it from Plato. That is if you read him. Plato won’t be on the bus. There is growing evidence that we become more like, in our thinking, the people we habitually hang out with; therefore, good reason to choose your mates well. Seriously, do spend quality time with like-minded higher consciousness truth seekers. Ever notice after spending some time with a moan you feel down? Transmission of thought. Inception. Advertising agencies are experts in this. They know how to make suggestions, plant the appropriate idea at the right time. A good advertiser will never tell you go out and buy this really expensive car that you don’t need, and that won’t perform any better than the one you have. If they did you’d just laugh at them. Instead what they do is show you some guy driving along a winding cliff road overlooking a beautiful shore. Don’t you just look so cool in that set of wheels? It is you isn’t it? Course it is, and you can’t wait for the showroom to open. There are other subtle things going on here too. Maybe there’s a copy of the financial times lying on the seat (after all, you’re successful), or there’s a hot chick beside you. This means you’re getting some. And of course the exotic location shows what a cultured and travelled man you are. You may not actually be driving on Malabou beach, more likely battling your way at a crawl through thick inner city traffic. But that doesn’t matter to the dream. Perception is reality after all. All this is seeding. And sooner or later you will buy that auto, maybe not the flash sports car in the ad, but a close approximation. The idea is now planted in your head, you incorporate all this new data into your own life, delete what you perceive impossible (that’s the Malabou bit), distort other parts (the actual model) and add your own stuff from the reference points of your life and memory bank. Now how different is this really from Inception? A person doesn’t have to get into your dreams to get into your head. Actually no adman ever sold you anything, you sell it to yourself. Every time. Here’s a question. Do you think the smartest adman on the planet could’ve sold that car to Gandhi? Seeding – the real inception We seed each other’s thoughts all the time. A casual conversation can give you an idea for something that is only indirectly related to the topic. In fact we need other people and their rich thoughts to inseminate our own. Enlightenment doesn’t come from sitting on a lonely mountain peak. Sorry if you were heading out the door to the Himalayas. Before finishing let’s return to the snapshot of our average guy and his thought streaming. Buried among his mundane thoughts are certain pointed ones. For example, between what’s he’s having for lunch and what’s on tv tonight he reveals he has financial worries. He has a thought that says he never can make enough money. He worries about his stocks. What kind of secure future do you think he's creating? He thinks he has a problem with public speaking (most people have this thought), but I would say it’s more about showing up. This may (or may not) have something to do with his not wanting to get out of bed in the morning. Yes, most of our thoughts are rubbish. Let’s be honest! But amongst the rubbish are the one that will shape your future. Make sure they include thoughts and pictures of you doing the things you love, with the people you love. See yourself in full health, wildly happy, and insanely rich. Inception is a film. Your life is real. They’re your thoughts. Make them gems. Return from Inception . . . to Home page |
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