It has been my observation that people are not very good listeners and they are usually not interested in other people unless it has some direct bearing on their own lives. When they ask you how you are, they expect you to say, “I’m fine, thanks, and how are you?;” they don’t expect you to really tell them how you are doing. And if, by chance, you should make the egregious mistake of actually answering the question, they are often …
Every time I hear someone talking about thinking outside the box, I wonder about the body that’s being held prisoner inside the box. If this were a case of astral traveling, astral projection, or bilocation, it would be understandable because we know that while the mind can be in one place, the body can be in another place. There have been numerous documented cases of people undergoing surgery who have seen themselves on the ceiling looking down at their body …
From the time we are born, we are always on our way to becoming something. We are embryos on our way to becoming a child. We are children on our way to becoming teenagers who think we know everything. We are teenagers who are as smart as we will ever be, on our way to becoming adults. We are adults who are as informed as we will ever be, on our way to becoming elderly. We are old now and …
Many years ago, I read a book that talked about psychic ability being linked to imagination and daydreaming. When I came across those words I thought that this would probably eliminate me as a candidate because I have always been a very focused person. Give me something that consumes my interest, and everything else is swept aside. I remember once sitting in my kitchen and doing a layout for a flyer that I was designing and I had a frozen …
I once asked a young man if he would rather be smart or nice. I wasn’t asking him if he would rather be seen as smart or nice; I was asking him if he would rather be smart or nice. It was interesting to see him wrestle with this question. I specifically asked him because of his niceness factor and because of his intelligence. Perhaps one of the reasons I was so interested in his response is because I have …
The interesting thing about thinking is that everyone thinks they think. I have listened to the thought process of many people and the sad fact is that so many of them are merely repeating the thoughts of others that they have heard or read about. I posed a question to a man and I was impressed by his answer. It was a well thought out answer and, until that moment, I had not given him enough credit for his thinking …
In most countries with a traditional culture, old people are respected and honored for their wisdom. In the United States, we tend to see them as old, doddering fools whose best years are behind them and who are just taking up time and space, waiting for the grim reaper to take them. But worst of all is that for so many people, their thinking gets fuzzy and they get mentally lazy. Doctors keep telling us that as we get older, …
When I first started studying the principles of metaphysics, I kept hearing about the power of affirmations. I looked around at the people who believed in them so strongly and I couldn’t see where the use of their affirmations had helped them. If my back hurt, it hurt, and no amount of affirmations that my back was healed, or that I was completely healthy, or that I lived in perfect health and wellbeing, made the pain go away. This was …
Do you ever wonder about things that make no sense at the moment but the thoughts stay with you continuously through the years? Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who does just that. I look at the books on my library shelves and I know that I’ll never get around to reading all of them because I keep adding more of them than I can read, but I’d like to know what’s in each and every book that I have. …
This is one of those horror stories about customer feedback that is so hard to believe, yet it’s true. Whenever you buy something online, you get an email asking you to take a survey and to post your opinion of the product and the customer service you received. You also have the option of posting your feedback online so that other customers can benefit from your experience. But wait a minute. Think again. Apparently, if you exercise that option, you …