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An Open Mind

 

An open mind

 

What I am going to tell you you all already know. You will recognise it and say, oh yes of course, I KNEW that. But even in the knowing of it, it is generally not in the forefront of our minds.

 

What is it?

It is – who we really are!!! And how we become who we really want to be.

 

How do we deal with issues that are prevalent in our world, in our society but that we are filtering out – what we don’t see. We know it, but we don’t see it. We accept to live out lives within systems that appear to not be systems that can nurture us and make us the best we can be.

 

An open mind is required to hear other points of view, to weigh up what is being said and then to decide – this interests me, or no this threatens me. Either one of those options is correct! There is not right and wrong here, only what serves you best at this time.

 

Are we the person who gets up every morning and pretty much does the same sort of things every day, every week, every month with maybe a change here and there, as in a holiday. When we return from the break we settle with alarming rapidity into our comfortable little ruts and continue doing what we always have done.

 

Sometimes though – we think about things. BIG things, like why am I here, I am getting old and I will die, then what? What have I achieved? Am I happy?

Do I feel restless?

And then after these big seemingly rhetorical questions exhaust us or bore us we continue with out lives and push them to the background.

 

We could also ask are we happy with the way our world is. Do we like the way society is organised?

Does it serve us best?

What would be the answer to all these questions?

For me, I would have to say, hey there has got to be something more.

This illusion we call life doesn’t seem to have any blue prints on how to do it properly.

Is this a valid statement? Are there any rules or systems out there that will give us what we really want? Can we find it in any systems that man has set up?

What would serve us best.?

 

It all begins with us. What we put in we get out. Of our minds that is!

What we think matters

Our attitudes matter.

Our attitudes alter our reality.

 

 

We change our thoughts

Its changes our attitudes

Alters our mindset

Opens us to new thoughts

Our changed attitudes alter our reality

 

We each have our own reality.

We build our own constructs of “how things are”

 

If we change our thoughts

Our attitudes will change

 

CHANGE!!!!

 

This leads to change. Change is scary and wonderful

 

Only you can change you. And then only if you want to change. If you don’t, that’s OK. Nothing here is compulsory. You don’t have to make any changes unless you feel you want to.

 

This free will that we operate with is just that. We can decide to believe just what we want to believe. The choices in what we believe comes from our values. Our values are the framework or how we run our lives.

Where do we get these values?

Now here it is interesting. Well we got them from

Our parents, who got them from Their parents who got them from……

We got them from our surroundings, From societal norms. This is the way its always been done.

We got them from religion.

We got them from established peer ways of doing things.

 

I come from a medical and an aviation background.

It is most interesting to note that within medicine there are certain ways of doing things and of training new doctors. These ways of doing things like its always been done…….. are these the best ways? I am sure that there is room for change and improvement of many aspects.

 

In aviation, when we kill people, or lose expensive equipment when the crew fly perfectly serviceable aircraft into mountains, it makes very good press. So every aspect of the cause of the accident is investigated and changes are implemented to improve the safety margins. This is true of the human factor. The aircrew.

 

It was discovered that the aircrew were largely responsible for a good percentage of accidents. This is a subject on its own, as there are many factors at work here and it is most interesting to consider all the aspects of where the blame lies.

 

But to get back to our peer pressure amongst pilots. Could this be a factor? Indeed. It was discovered that the macho fighter pilot attitude of I can do it and I can do it on my own was a recipe for disaster in the commercial aviation sector. It worked well in the airforce in fighter jets, because really all you want to do basically is kill or scare the enemy and preferably not yourself. You also want to get your expensive toy back on the ground in one piece so that you can play with it again. The enemy of course wants to do exactly the same thing to you! So the fighter pilot needs to be aggressive, a “can do” and macho attitude.

 

In the commercial cockpit, you have a team in a multi crew situation. When the commander, in a crises situation, takes the entire workload on his shoulders he excludes input and assistance from competent and professional crew. Where the team doesn’t work in synergy, has been found to be a cause of aircraft accidents.

 

Therefore Crew Resource Management was introduced to work with the human resource. The idea being that the crew work in harmony to achieve the sole object of landing the passengers safely at the airport at which they expect to land and not 5 kms short of the airport. This understandably, makes passengers very angry.

 

It was discovered that the accepted norm for the military pilot and the way things were done was unacceptable in the commercial field. The reason why it changed – because analyses found it to be no longer usable and was then largely eradicated by the new peer pressure which came from education and an open mind.

 

The fact that they legislated human factors training also meant that we had an “in”. It was then up to us to suggest that there was a better way to do things. There were many highly competent experienced pilots who had been there, done that, bought the tee shirt who wanted none of this change of mind set. But when we showed them that it had practical value to them. That it would start with them and change them in ways that would make them more than they had been before, they began to get enthusiastic and embrace change.

The subtle pressure exerted by peer pressure is formidable and can perpetuate “a way of doing things” long after its “use by” date.

 

 

If we now look at they way our world in all its many aspects is run, what exactly does that tell us?

 

If we continue to do things in the way we have always done things, why are we surprised when we always get the same result out?

 

What then is the answer?

 

It begins with us. And it has to do with love.

We need to understand that we first love ourselves and then we turn this love outward and give it away freely. There is a spiritual law which says that what we give away returns to us in greater measure than we give it.

 

Nice – lets give money away then.

 

The key to this giving away is the attitude with which we do it. For some reason that is important. That’s what makes it work for you.

 

This would include giving away compliments, a smile, a positive input. A helping hand, gratitude, caring attitude, compassion.

 

Give away that which you would like to receive.

 

Love. everything must come from love.

 

Can we change our world? Yes I believe that we can. If enough of us are thinking in a different way, not just following the pack (which at this time appears to be moving rapidly towards a sheer cliff edge) we will be able to change things. There are many people out there right now, who have started realising that who they are is not really who they want to be and are changing their thoughts.

 

So how actually do we achieve this?

 

By starting with yourself. By admitting that you want to be someone who you really like most of the time. By changing yourself and your circumstances into what you most desire. But we warned – you may get what you create. Be sure that you do really want it.

 

Then choose an aspect of yourself that you would like to change. Picture it as if it is already achieved. Use “I am” words. For example

I am strong

I am confident

I am attractive

I have sufficient to meet my needs in abundance

I love myself

 

Be sincere. Do not force anything. Just continue as if you already manifest that which you most desire.

 

Once you launch thought creation there is going to be change and you will see how effective this is.

 

You will see how well it works when you control your thoughts instead of your thoughts controlling you.

An open mind

 

What I am going to tell you you all already know. You will recognise it and say, oh yes of course, I KNEW that. But even in the knowing of it, it is generally not in the forefront of our minds.

 

What is it?

It is – who we really are!!! And how we become who we really want to be.

 

How do we deal with issues that are prevalent in our world, in our society but that we are filtering out – what we don’t see. We know it, but we don’t see it. We accept to live out lives within systems that appear to not be systems that can nurture us and make us the best we can be.

 

An open mind is required to hear other points of view, to weigh up what is being said and then to decide – this interests me, or no this threatens me. Either one of those options is correct! There is not right and wrong here, only what serves you best at this time.

 

Are we the person who gets up every morning and pretty much does the same sort of things every day, every week, every month with maybe a change here and there, as in a holiday. When we return from the break we settle with alarming rapidity into our comfortable little ruts and continue doing what we always have done.

 

Sometimes though – we think about things. BIG things, like why am I here, I am getting old and I will die, then what? What have I achieved? Am I happy?

Do I feel restless?

And then after these big seemingly rhetorical questions exhaust us or bore us we continue with out lives and push them to the background.

 

We could also ask are we happy with the way our world is. Do we like the way society is organised?

Does it serve us best?

What would be the answer to all these questions?

For me, I would have to say, hey there has got to be something more.

This illusion we call life doesn’t seem to have any blue prints on how to do it properly.

Is this a valid statement? Are there any rules or systems out there that will give us what we really want? Can we find it in any systems that man has set up?

What would serve us best.?

 

It all begins with us. What we put in we get out. Of our minds that is!

What we think matters

Our attitudes matter.

Our attitudes alter our reality.

 

 

We change our thoughts

Its changes our attitudes

Alters our mindset

Opens us to new thoughts

Our changed attitudes alter our reality

 

We each have our own reality.

We build our own constructs of “how things are”

 

If we change our thoughts

Our attitudes will change

 

CHANGE!!!!

 

This leads to change. Change is scary and wonderful

 

Only you can change you. And then only if you want to change. If you don’t, that’s OK. Nothing here is compulsory. You don’t have to make any changes unless you feel you want to.

 

This free will that we operate with is just that. We can decide to believe just what we want to believe. The choices in what we believe comes from our values. Our values are the framework or how we run our lives.

Where do we get these values?

Now here it is interesting. Well we got them from

Our parents, who got them from Their parents who got them from……

We got them from our surroundings, From societal norms. This is the way its always been done.

We got them from religion.

We got them from established peer ways of doing things.

 

I come from a medical and an aviation background.

It is most interesting to note that within medicine there are certain ways of doing things and of training new doctors. These ways of doing things like its always been done…….. are these the best ways? I am sure that there is room for change and improvement of many aspects.

 

In aviation, when we kill people, or lose expensive equipment when the crew fly perfectly serviceable aircraft into mountains, it makes very good press. So every aspect of the cause of the accident is investigated and changes are implemented to improve the safety margins. This is true of the human factor. The aircrew.

 

It was discovered that the aircrew were largely responsible for a good percentage of accidents. This is a subject on its own, as there are many factors at work here and it is most interesting to consider all the aspects of where the blame lies.

 

But to get back to our peer pressure amongst pilots. Could this be a factor? Indeed. It was discovered that the macho fighter pilot attitude of I can do it and I can do it on my own was a recipe for disaster in the commercial aviation sector. It worked well in the airforce in fighter jets, because really all you want to do basically is kill or scare the enemy and preferably not yourself. You also want to get your expensive toy back on the ground in one piece so that you can play with it again. The enemy of course wants to do exactly the same thing to you! So the fighter pilot needs to be aggressive, a “can do” and macho attitude.

 

In the commercial cockpit, you have a team in a multi crew situation. When the commander, in a crises situation, takes the entire workload on his shoulders he excludes input and assistance from competent and professional crew. Where the team doesn’t work in synergy, has been found to be a cause of aircraft accidents.

 

Therefore Crew Resource Management was introduced to work with the human resource. The idea being that the crew work in harmony to achieve the sole object of landing the passengers safely at the airport at which they expect to land and not 5 kms short of the airport. This understandably, makes passengers very angry.

 

It was discovered that the accepted norm for the military pilot and the way things were done was unacceptable in the commercial field. The reason why it changed – because analyses found it to be no longer usable and was then largely eradicated by the new peer pressure which came from education and an open mind.

 

The fact that they legislated human factors training also meant that we had an “in”. It was then up to us to suggest that there was a better way to do things. There were many highly competent experienced pilots who had been there, done that, bought the tee shirt who wanted none of this change of mind set. But when we showed them that it had practical value to them. That it would start with them and change them in ways that would make them more than they had been before, they began to get enthusiastic and embrace change.

The subtle pressure exerted by peer pressure is formidable and can perpetuate “a way of doing things” long after its “use by” date.

 

 

If we now look at they way our world in all its many aspects is run, what exactly does that tell us?

 

If we continue to do things in the way we have always done things, why are we surprised when we always get the same result out?

 

What then is the answer?

 

It begins with us. And it has to do with love.

We need to understand that we first love ourselves and then we turn this love outward and give it away freely. There is a spiritual law which says that what we give away returns to us in greater measure than we give it.

 

Nice – lets give money away then.

 

The key to this giving away is the attitude with which we do it. For some reason that is important. That’s what makes it work for you.

 

This would include giving away compliments, a smile, a positive input. A helping hand, gratitude, caring attitude, compassion.

 

Give away that which you would like to receive.

 

Love. everything must come from love.

 

Can we change our world? Yes I believe that we can. If enough of us are thinking in a different way, not just following the pack (which at this time appears to be moving rapidly towards a sheer cliff edge) we will be able to change things. There are many people out there right now, who have started realising that who they are is not really who they want to be and are changing their thoughts.

 

So how actually do we achieve this?

 

By starting with yourself. By admitting that you want to be someone who you really like most of the time. By changing yourself and your circumstances into what you most desire. But we warned – you may get what you create. Be sure that you do really want it.

 

Then choose an aspect of yourself that you would like to change. Picture it as if it is already achieved. Use “I am” words. For example

I am strong

I am confident

I am attractive

I have sufficient to meet my needs in abundance

I love myself

 

Be sincere. Do not force anything. Just continue as if you already manifest that which you most desire.

 

Once you launch thought creation there is going to be change and you will see how effective this is.

 

You will see how well it works when you control your thoughts instead of your thoughts controlling you.

 

For more about life visit me at http://www.coachingselfimprovement.com

 

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