Comments on: Let Go of Your Past and Protect Your Future http://collettejones.com/let-go-of-your-past-and-protect-your-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=let-go-of-your-past-and-protect-your-future Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:59:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joel Canfield http://collettejones.com/let-go-of-your-past-and-protect-your-future/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Joel Canfield Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:38:07 +0000 http://collettejones.com/?p=198#comment-71 Great post, Collette. We have all had our past "challenges" and the trick is not to let them weigh you down and dim your optimism. Very nice thoughts. Joel Great post, Collette. We have all had our past “challenges” and the trick is not to let them weigh you down and dim your optimism. Very nice thoughts.

Joel

]]> By: Gary Simpson http://collettejones.com/let-go-of-your-past-and-protect-your-future/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Gary Simpson Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:32:57 +0000 http://collettejones.com/?p=198#comment-70 Good post Collette, I agree with most of it. I especially agree with writing down all the bad stuff in a private journal. That does wonders for getting that trash OUT of your head. Basically, you don't need to keep thinking about it because you KNOW that you have it on paper - IF you need to refer to it - which you probably won't! In many respects it's like writing down a phone number - you don't have to keep repeating the number back to yourself to try to remember it. Same with making a list of the shopping items that you need. Unfortunately, by the same score, our newspapers and television news reports are PACKED with negative trash. The psychologists know that negative is far more popular so the news services cater for that. Negative sells because MOST people are negatively tuned and wired. I stopped getting the newspaper every day because most of what I was reading was BAD news, tragedy and just full of negative stories and grief. Why do I need to know? If things get REALLY bad then somebody is bound to tell me. Yesterday somebody gave me a newspaper. I flicked through the usual dross, read a couple of Letters to the Editor, read a few sports stories - actually, I skimmed them coz they were pretty much nonsense fillers. I was about to toss the paper out when... ... I noticed an article on Page 3 of the Health Today section of the West Australian edition of the 14th April 2010. It was entitled: "It's All in the Mind." Naturally, I just had to read that. And I'm gonna read it again later today. Quite fascinating. Here's the opening paragraph: <blockquote>"New research suggests the brain can be rewired to cure anything from phantom limb syndrome to addictions."</blockquote> Interesting stuff and very similar to the things I teach in my <b>Brain Training e-book</b>. having said all of the above - ie dumping bad stuff on paper to get rid of it - I am also one for reliving past glories. That can be so therapeutic. It can put you in the mood to repeat it. Or reach a higher level of consciousness or performance. I strongly believe in a theory I have called "muscle memory." But that's a whole new subject. Anyway, this is getting way too long. Good post Colls. Nice look and feel to the blog too. Well done honeybunch. Gary Simpson TEMPLE Good post Collette,

I agree with most of it. I especially agree with writing down all the bad stuff in a private journal. That does wonders for getting that trash OUT of your head. Basically, you don’t need to keep thinking about it because you KNOW that you have it on paper – IF you need to refer to it – which you probably won’t!

In many respects it’s like writing down a phone number – you don’t have to keep repeating the number back to yourself to try to remember it. Same with making a list of the shopping items that you need.

Unfortunately, by the same score, our newspapers and television news reports are PACKED with negative trash. The psychologists know that negative is far more popular so the news services cater for that. Negative sells because MOST people are negatively tuned and wired.

I stopped getting the newspaper every day because most of what I was reading was BAD news, tragedy and just full of negative stories and grief. Why do I need to know? If things get REALLY bad then somebody is bound to tell me.

Yesterday somebody gave me a newspaper. I flicked through the usual dross, read a couple of Letters to the Editor, read a few sports stories – actually, I skimmed them coz they were pretty much nonsense fillers. I was about to toss the paper out when…

… I noticed an article on Page 3 of the Health Today section of the West Australian edition of the 14th April 2010. It was entitled: “It’s All in the Mind.” Naturally, I just had to read that. And I’m gonna read it again later today. Quite fascinating.

Here’s the opening paragraph:

“New research suggests the brain can be rewired to cure anything from phantom limb syndrome to addictions.”

Interesting stuff and very similar to the things I teach in my Brain Training e-book.

having said all of the above – ie dumping bad stuff on paper to get rid of it – I am also one for reliving past glories. That can be so therapeutic. It can put you in the mood to repeat it. Or reach a higher level of consciousness or performance. I strongly believe in a theory I have called “muscle memory.” But that’s a whole new subject.

Anyway, this is getting way too long. Good post Colls. Nice look and feel to the blog too. Well done honeybunch.

Gary Simpson
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