In Life Coaching and Mind Development, beliefs are one of the keys that unlock our experience of the world. What I am about to share is one of the most profound examples of what 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 ordinary people giving them the glasses to wear 24 hours a day 7 of the week. After a period of 2 to 3 weeks depending on the individual there 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 that strong that instead of accepting there “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 to 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 there 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 thought they were in plain sight, as the ships where completely outside the native experience on what reality is. The Chief 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 too later in this series of articles. Then all of a sudden the Chief 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 tribes man thought if our Chief can see them, they must be there and then the rest of the natives already believing that the Chief speaks the truth when the Chief said “ship exist” then the native said “yes they exist because the Chief speaks the truth” and in a instant they could also see the ships.
Let me explain to you what in this case I will 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 where to apply cause and effect to this instance this first thing that was noticed was the ripples (the affect) at this point the cause was yet to known . A lot of time in my life and the life’s 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 say 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 and because I was focused on my client I didn’t pay attend to the small waves, until they were big waves which splashed up and wet our feet. At that point it become a problem for us and then we acted by moving further up the beach. This didn’t really happen yet but is a great way to explain what I mean.
Mind Development and Life Coaching has given me the skills to observe ripples in my life and the Life’s of others, understanding there cause, intern giving me and others the ability to choose if the ripples could become a problem and because they have been noticed as a ripple it gives time to plan a course of action.
My Life and how I changed it for the benefit of others
My life wasn’t how I wanted it to be and I couldn’t work out how come. I have an amazing family, a great place to live in Cronulla which is south of Sydney on the beach, yet the “career thing” was still escaping me. I am a highly skilled carpenter, yet don’t enjoy the work. I love outdoesting…! I love people and I love self development, could this be for me? After doing some research on the topic I realized that if I became a life coach I could use what I have learned about humans already, from a lifetime of studying myself and others through mediums such as Christianity, yoga, Chinese medicine, physical therapy and general life.
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