If someone sat down and gave me forty symptoms I would look him straight in the eye and ask 'Do you think you've got arthritis of the brain?'
- Pg 54, Only When I Laugh, Doctor, by Dr Robert Clifford
Some days back I went for a foot reflexology massage. The science says that there every spot in the body has a corresponding spot on the foot and massaging the foot properly boosts overall health of the body. I don't know if thats true or not. But I do think that there should be a study of Mind Reflexology. When the old adage says - the mind plays tricks with us. It certainly isn't lying. Especially as you age. Its proven that many medical symptoms and even diseases are all in the mind. And medical science has even developed a cure based on this - the placebo. And as you age, you get more and more convinced that the joints are creaking and the taps are leaking...and each little niggle hammers one more nail into the coffin. And hence the need for Mind Reflexology. Come to think of it, I guess that IS the basis of all psychology and psychiatry. So next time you have a headache, ask yourself the question - is it in your head or is it in your mind?
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
March 13 - Line for the day
"Now at first, you are going to think its a silly story."
- Pg 66, Leadership and Self-Deception, by The Arbinger Institute
Thinking that you'll look silly for saying or doing something is probably one of the biggest issues I've struggled with while growing up. A series I attended a while back called it 'looking good'. Our need to look good in front of people, whether it be a chosen few or the public at large. And automatically the balance of power shifts from self to others. Expression becomes a function of not what I really want to say or am thinking, but how I want others to perceive me. Is that wrong? Not necessarily. In some cases, it might even be self preservative. Hell, I'm sure it started off being self serving when the impulse first manifests. The problem, as always, is in excess. When every thought, action is pre-edited to the point where you may not be even aware that you are doing this as you speak/act. When it becomes an unconscious instinct. We have mastered the mask, and lost ourselves.
- Pg 66, Leadership and Self-Deception, by The Arbinger Institute
Thinking that you'll look silly for saying or doing something is probably one of the biggest issues I've struggled with while growing up. A series I attended a while back called it 'looking good'. Our need to look good in front of people, whether it be a chosen few or the public at large. And automatically the balance of power shifts from self to others. Expression becomes a function of not what I really want to say or am thinking, but how I want others to perceive me. Is that wrong? Not necessarily. In some cases, it might even be self preservative. Hell, I'm sure it started off being self serving when the impulse first manifests. The problem, as always, is in excess. When every thought, action is pre-edited to the point where you may not be even aware that you are doing this as you speak/act. When it becomes an unconscious instinct. We have mastered the mask, and lost ourselves.
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