2 of 5 Mind Development – Flipping your Mind to change your experiences

In Life Coaching and Mind Development, beliefs are one of the keys that unlock our experience of the world. Beliefs are “hard” wired thought patterns that determine our perception. What I mean when I say “hard” is that it is like a tangible wire - I think of a speaker wire that links one thing to the other - the speaker to the stereo. Although it is a tangible wire it’s a living breathing organism which grows, strengthens and evolves or shrinks, weaken and dies.

The brain itself is very flexible and changeable depending on how it iss used. If a person in their life thinks and views things the same way all the time, this strengthens the links in the brain and makes it bigger and stronger thus harder to change. Just as a speaker wire sends a signal from the stereo to the speaker and the same
with the neurological wiring - its purpose is to transfer a signal
and each time a signal passes though it the wire grows.

The following example is one of the most profound examples of which I have come across:

A man who was studying this theory created a set of glasses which consisted of a series of prisms that inverted the view of the world. This man conducted an experiment with everyday people giving these people the glasses to wear 24 hours a day, 7days a week. After a period of 2-3 weeks, depending on the individual, their mind corrected the inverted image.

It is my understanding that humans have a firm belief about which way up the world is and that belief is so strong that instead of accepting their “new upside down reality” thanks to some funky glasses, they instead changed their mind to conform to their belief of which way up the world is. How powerful is that knowledge?

Further in the experiment when the glasses where removed, each person again changed their mind to conform with their beliefs because when they first took the glasses off, the world was again inverted until their mind reverted the image to conform to their beliefs. Even though their tangible reality changed, their mind changed more than once to create congruency between the belief and the individual’s reality.

It is said that when Columbus and his ships were approaching the Cayman Islands, the natives could not see his ships even though they were in plain sight. The ships where completely outside the natives’ experience of reality. The Sharman of the tribe could see the ripples in the water coming from the ships even though he also could not see the ships. For a while he sat on the shore and watched the ripples saying to himself “there must be a cause of these ripples”.

That phrase and other like phrases have a neurological effect on the brain, which I will come back to later in this series of articles. Then all of a sudden the Sharman could see the ships. In an instant it all made sense! This is one of those light bulb moments I have mentioned in other articles. He then proceeded to communicate to the rest of the tribe what had happen and what he had seen. He was a trusted leader of the tribe and his fellow tribe men thought,“if our Sharman can see them, they must be there”,and then the rest of the natives already believing that the Sharman speaks the truth when the Sharman said “ship exist” then the native said “yes they exist because the Sharman speaks the truth” and in a instant they could also see the ships.

Let me explain to you what, in this case, I call the ripple effect. In the first part of this article I mentioned the possibility of looking at the world with the belief of cause and effect. If we were to apply cause and effect to this instance, the first thing that was noticed was the ripples (the affect) and at this point the cause was yet to be known.

A lot of time in my life and the lives of my Life Coaching clients, I observe the ripples and it is normally only when the ripples become a problem that we desire to understand the cause. Let’s say, for argument’s sake, I was Life Coaching on Cronulla beach. As my client and I sat there, the small waves rolled up and the small waves became big waves. Because I was focused on my client, I didn’t pay attention to the small waves, until they were big waves which splashed up and wet our feet. At that point it became a problem for us and we acted by moving further up the beach.

Mind Development and Life Coaching has given me the skills to observe ripples in my life and the lives of others, understanding their cause, and in turn giving me and others the ability to choose if the ripples could become a problem. Because they have been noticed as a ripple, it gives time to plan a course of action.

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