STRUGGLE

Where does trouble lie but in our minds. This has been a long and difficult Winter. I shouldn't have looked at the forecast. It calls for 6 to 8 inches of heavy snow tomorrow. No.............. Oh well, we will make it.

I have been reading an article about the importance of avoiding negative thinking. Humanity is moving into a higher vibration where thoughts will be more rapidly manifest. I definitely do not want any of the thoughts I have been having this Morning to become manifest.

I don't like to struggle with my thoughts. Whatever the event is, the snow tomorrow or whatever, we need not struggle. One can live in the moment and be accepting of what will come. Struggling just robs us of the happiness which is our entitlement. We will find it amazing how our whole world can change by replacing thoughts of dread with thoughts of love and hope.

I was reading another article this Morning. It was focused on our tendency to engage in reductionist thinking. We compare and look for contradictions in all incoming ideas. We parse and chop any new ideas and reject anything that doesn't fit with our preconceived idea about what is true. We tend to see ideas as competitive rather than complimentary. We have difficulty examining two ideas that may have some seeming contradiction. Instead of being able to expand our mind to contemplate the ideas we need to reject all or parts of one. To learn we have to suspend the idea of any final conclusion. There are no final conclusions.

There are excellent examples of this phenomena in all the sciences. The Russian approach to genetics and biological development is quite different from the thought process in Europe and the United States. Yet they don't have to be seen as competitive. The differences can be seen as complimentary and enriching to both.

I am more familiar with the struggles in my own field of psychotherapy. Freud, Adler and Jung each presented a view of man that seemed contradictory to many psychologist. I didn't think they were contradictory. I thought they[Freud, Adler and Jung] were like the nine blind men and the elephant. They were groping the elephant and describing what an elephant must be like by the experience they were having, feeling the part they were clinging to.

The truth, like the elephant, is much bigger than the part we can see and analyze. It is important that we don't stop and conclude we know. The idea of man can contain everything Freud, Adler and Jung thought and taught. Their ideas do not have to contradict and compete with each other. It is not a winner takes all race. It is not a race at all. Our awareness can expand to include all the ideas. With time the ideas that are not based on truth will fall by the wayside. We do not have to compare, choose and reject.

We are on the brink of many great new discoveries. We are going to be invited to accept ideas that we would have thought preposterous a few years ago. When it comes to really understanding Nature, The Earth, The Cosmos etc. we are more blind than those nine men and the elephant. The elephant is much larger than we can imagine and the grasp we have is much smaller.

Let us open our hearts and our minds, as well as our eyes. Be open to new learning and experience. When a new idea is presented, hold it in your mind examine and consider it. Resist the idea to compare and reject. We are going to get plenty of practice. A whole new world is opening up to us.

Love and Peace,  Gregg