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Recap: After a long time playing with the idea of personal growth, the path lead me to the 3 pillars. Physical, Mental and Spiritual health.
Physical: All things in the realm of your body. From movement, to nutrition.
Mental: All things in your mind/mindset, past experiences, up bringing and your parents.
Spiritual: The lens in which you view the world. Your relationship to consciousness, god, Jah, the great spirit or whatever word you want to assign. Faith in the unknown.
After going over the Physical realm last week, unpacking that as the foundation for any transformation.
Mental
Diving into the mind: Now that we are taking care of the physical pillar, changing the chemistry in our body and brain. The mental and spiritual pillars present them selves. Lets get right into the deep end. Our mind, thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions of the world are a set of behaviours programmed by our environment and experiences from the day you were born until now. As Dr. Joe Dispenze says:
This can be and extremely overwhelming thought, but I’ve come to realise how empowering this can be. It then means we can programme ourselves differently… In a way in which we desire. However, if we are not aware of the patterns and behaviours playing out, it’s hard to transform them.
With that being said, here are 3 of the majour influences and potential gold in the “understanding our behaviours” mine. Love a good metaphor.
1. Parents
Our parents played a huge role (arguably one of the biggest) in the development of our mental landscape, who we are, or who we think we are. Everything ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in our parents was projected and installed if you will, inside of us. Why this is so empowering is because we can have conversations (hopefully) with them and unpack things. Or even easier, we can look at their behaviours and notice anything similar to ours. Unpacking these in a way that liberates us from repeating the same behaviours, assuming It’s “bad” and not something we want to play out in ourselves.
2. Influence: News, TV, Social media, Idols, Teachers, Friends.
Each of these play such a huge role in the development of our mental landscape. Theres such a huge amount of power in auditing each of these. What I mean by that is: If you watch the news each day, and it’s predominantly negativity about the world. You guessed it, our outlook becomes negative. Much the same as what TV shoes we watch, social media pages we consume, who we look up to and who we spend out time with. We can examine each of these and ask ourselves “is this adding to who I want to become?” Or is it adding to the ‘bad’ patterns that I play out. In my own language, is it making me more in ‘FEAR’ or more in ‘LOVE.’ Such a hippie huh, so be it.
3. Actions
What do we participate in? Knowingly or not. For example: If we eat food that we know is ‘bad (in our opinion)’ for us, then we are reinforcing a more negative opinion on our life. Same for all actions we believe we should be doing. When we have a healthy balance of participation in the actions we believe we should be doing (exercise, eating well, sleeping enough, socialising,) we are reinforcing LOVE. We are showing ourself the world is a beautiful place. Programming who we are in a more desirable direction. So understanding that each action has a programming effect can help us unpack why we are the way we are. AND also provide power and insight into what we need to do to create new ways of feeling, of being.
Practicality:
We can write down things we notice in our parents, our influence and actions that we either like or dislike. Something as simple as merely noticing them has the power to shift us in a more desirable direction. The practice of ‘noticing’ (meditation) means when we notice the pattern play out, we can act if a new way, according to who we want to be.
Rather than continue to play out self limiting behaviours.
This can look like: Pausing before saying something mean. Unfollowing the negative social media account. Participating in a positive activity according to your beliefs as to what you ‘should’ be doing.
Meditation, Waking Up app.
Meditation is a game changer. Teaching us to become more aware of our thoughts and the patterns that play out. In tern, being more able to choose a different path rather than acting out the same shit.
I use the waking up app and have clocked over 6200minutes / 103hours of meditation. One of the best investments into my life I've ever made. Follow the link below, it will give you a free month of access. They have an incredible 30 day introduction to meditation course. Enjoy.
Lets grow!
Much love guys, see you next week. -Hunter
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