Do you agree or disagree? "There is no reason to study the past since we live in the present." This essay explains about the modern conscious mind on studying the old techniques in a new way or not. Students in every part of the world pass some courses in history when they are in high school. Some of the students like such courses and some don't. The people who don't like to study history always argue that it is the story of the past and doesn't add any value for their present and future life. On the contrary, I think they are wrong. I believe that studying and learning about past will help us in future decisions in our life.      First of all, consider the example of different wars in the history which has happened between different countries. What were the main reasons for first and second world war ? how did it end ? Now if we compare the advantage and disadvantage of such wars we will see that some thing was very common. Some one who had been in power becomes so proud of his power that suddenly acts like a blind and doesn't see other facts around him. This has resulted several disasters in our history. People can learn to be open and negotiable when they know that 90% of the wars ended in loss for either side of the countries fighting.   The next benefit which we can gain through studying the past, is about the life of successful people. It doesn't matter how you define success, whether you define it with money or knowledge, they both converge on some unique characteristics which we can learn only by studying the past wealthy or scientists lives. We can find out about the factors which most influenced their success and find some  common factors between them. This a good resource for us in deciding for future actions in our life.    In conclusion, I believe there is lots of value in studying the past. It helps us better align our strategies toward success. It also helps us to learn about the mistakes of other people and teaches us not to repeat them. People who think there is no value in learning about history and the past are blind to the above mentioned facts.

Do you agree or disagree? "For children, it is better to grow up in the country than in the city."

This essay explains about the mind growth of a child in a city or a country. This essay explains the difference between the mind. I agree that it is better for children to grow up in the countryside than in a big city.

First of all, in the countryside, children can be acquainted with nature which is hard to get acquainted in a big city. Often nature roles as a good teacher. For example, trees, flowers, animals, and insects can be children's biology teacher themselves. Personally I think themselves are the best teachers.

And I can think of the environmental differences between city and countryside. In a big city, pollution is major problem for quite many diseases.

It's very obvious for people who lives in city to more likely have allergy problems such as asthma, rhinitis and so forth. But people who enjoys fresh air and sunshine in the countryside has vigorous healthy life.

And in a big city, high rate of crimes makes people tend to lock themselves in their own teritoty only. People become more self-centered and cold. But in the countryside, people still open their house to neighbors, sometimes even to strangers. There are loving relations among people in the countryside.

In short, children can learn from nature and be raised as big hearted persons in the countryside.

More over, they would  be healthier in the countryside than in a city. So I really prefer raise my children in the countryside to in a big city.

 

Is it more important for a government to spend money on public transportation (buses, subways, etc.) or on roads?

This essay explains about the conscious mind in working state. How it finds solutions to a problems. It is an example for you to understand. There is an unresolved controversy what is more important for the city - convenient public transport or the well developed net of highways and roads. That is really a hard question because while each of the ways brings some advancement in the standard of leaving, it also has its own weaknesses. Nevertheless, I personally believe, that public transport is an essential part of the modern city so it has to get support from the government. I will try to prove my point by the following ideas.

      Firstly, public transport decreases the amount of the vehicles on the city's roads and thus, reduces the harmful pollution. For instance, I have grown up in the big city with the population over eight million people. Fortunately, not that many people could afford the personal car back than, so we did not really have any noticeable problems with the quality of the air. But nowadays, when car became a prevalent convenience for every middle-income family, city faces a real problem. The enormous amount of the cars in the streets create traffic problems, roads in the downtown are absolutely solid during the rush hours. Apparently, the pollution of the air reached the critical point and government has to urgently find the solution. I think that public transport can significantly benefit the environment. 

      On the other hand, well-developed and convenient net of public transport will drastically increase the safety of the city's roads. Obviously, when the professional drivers are in charge the collisions happen not that often. Furthermore, during the rush hours, especially in the evening, when people are in a hurry to get home after the working day, they do not pay much attention to their driving. On the other hand, the professional drivers that have been trained to deal with the stress on the roads are able to concentrate better. So, more people leave their cars at the garages in the morning, less collisions we will have during the day.

     Resuming the above, I would like to say that if I were the government I would pay more support and attention to the public transport's condition then that to the highways and roads. The convenient net of the public transport is able to benefit environment and increase safety on the roads. My personal opinion is that the public transport is an essential element of the modern city.   

 

Should going to class at school be optional or required?

This essay tells about the conscious mind thinking. Optional attendance to classes at universities has been an increasingly popular way for students to study for several years in quite a few countries. However, it has not yet had its intended results as it had been hoped. In fact, today, this system seems to be one of the reasons for the corruption of university education. In my opinion, compulsory attendance is better than having no requirement to attend all the lessons on-campus.

There are two points of view to this question. First, one side will say that university students are adults and should be able to manage their time as they see fit. This point of view says that sometimes, in today’s busy world, people need flexibility to manage their lives. For example, many single parents who are trying to earn their college degrees will sometimes need to skip a class because of the demands of their other responsibilities. However, I believe that the great majority of college students are young and single, and have few responsibilities, and that they need the discipline and structure of a system that requires attendance. Young people who have just gone off to college are notorious for the excesses to which they enjoy their freedom.

There are many negative situations caused by the free-attendance system. The most harmful one is the economic waste for both universities and students. Many students who do not attend classes regularly are likely to suffer decreased performance on their exams and therefore waste their time in college. They, generally, do not feel panic because of the failures or restudying the same subjects for the second time. However, this sometimes costs a fortune to both parents and the government that have created tax-funded subsidies for education for each student every year. Not only are the university fees wasted, but also the money for accommodations and other spending are also wasted.

On the other hand, students who are required to attend classes regularly have no time to waste in pubs or clubs. Nor can they spend these young years, which are more valuable to them to learn and think than any other period in their lives, on gambling or drinking. I do not mean they are only to study without any break or entertainment. Their social life is as necessary as studying during the hard academic years, yet, the amount of each should be balanced well. More spare time than necessary encourages the young to ignore studying and classes. Thus, neither the universities nor the students do their best if the students have too much freedom not to study.

To sum up, many teenagers are not able to think sensibly to decide when to study and when to enjoy with friends. A scheduled chart of classes which have a huge number of options that are necessary to identify the best fitting one for each student, will help them to construct an ideal campus life including leisure activities. In addition, this will stop the waste of time and money and is likely to reevaluate the higher education system in several years. In short, I believe that the majority of college students are too young to manage their time responsibly and that universities should therefore impose strict rules on attendance.

 

GUILT

Guilt is the result of the violation of your own concept of what is right. Every individual has a value system, a system of justice, it's violation causes Guilt. It is an entirely internal phenomenon. It is something we do to ourselves because we feel we have done some wrong or have failed to do what we considered right. Either way we torture ourselves with self-incrimination. Having prosecuted ourselves we feel we are guilty, we ourselves pronounce the judgement.

Guilt can be classified into two types:-

1)     That stems from personal relationships.

2)     Those related to our role in the society.

When we fail to live up to our own expectations, hopes and fears and the relationships are close, greater guilt results.

The second type of guilt is what society teaches us, its expectations and demands. We develop a built-in value system whose violation causes guilt. We get influenced by guilt-builders in the society.

Inner Conflict is the result of subconscious programming with conflicting value, which results in conduct and behavior conflicts with professed values. We shall talk about it later when we deal with Goal setting.

Nothing is more destructive to human personality, than Fear, Guilt and Inner Conflict (Muna-fe-qat).

Whilst both fear and Guilt can be eradicated to some extent by "Auto-Hypnosis" perhaps religion has found a more efficacious answer. Fear is treated with Faith and Guilt by forgiveness, "Istaghfaar".

 

FEAR  and GUILT

Fear is an emotion, it is not rational or reasonable, you cannot reason with fear. There is always an object or thing which is not truth. Fear festers and festers to eventually destroy all human faculties, it is born of violations of Cosmic Laws.

Fear is when you afraid of something you consciously know of what is it that you are afraid of.

Anxiety is, when you do not know what bothers you.

Phobia is a combination of fear and anxiety. It occurs when you do not know what is it that you are afraid of but you think you know it.

Worry and Nervousness are particular kinds of fears in that they seldom ease over long periods. The person knows what he is afraid of but just lets the matter rest.

Psychologist till recently thought that the cause of fear was due to things that happened to us. Now there is a consensus that what is directly involved is that we think about these things and respond to them.

It is often False Evidence of Actual Reality.

Being afraid of becoming afraid is a great deal more common than some of the physical dangers. Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

A tendency to make a mountain out of a mole is the first step towards Fear. Indecision is the seedling to fear.

Napoleon Hill identifies six basic fears namely:-

1) Poverty, 2) Criticism, 3) Ill Health, 4) Lost Love, 5) Old Age, 6) Death.

Fear paralyses the faculty of reason, destroys the faculty of imagination, kills self-reliance, undermines enthusiasm, discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of purpose, encourages procrastination, wipes out enthusiasm and makes self-control impossible, destroys the possibility of accurate thinking, takes the charm out of personality, diverts concentration of effort; it masters persistence, turns the will power into nothingness, destroys ambition, beclouds the memory, invites failures of all types, kills love and assassinates finer emotions of the heart, invites disasters in hundred forms, leads to misery and unhappiness.

The vibration of fear pass from one mind to another.

All fears are Negative emotions that violate the Natural Laws of Development.

The Mental Transformation

If we change the pattern of our thinking or acting, the brain cells begin to establish additional connections and "wirings". These new connections then communicate in fresh ways with other cells and before long, the path-ways or wirings that held our phobia or other habits are altered. All this is accomplished by mechanical means we call Auto-hypnosis. In the future post, more details will be posted.

A. The Cognitive Dissonance

In 1957 Leon Festinger published his theory of "Cognitive Dissonance".

"Cognitive" means an idea, opinion, view or a belief.

"Dissonance" means reacting, getting angry or being upset.

According to the theory, people get a psychological feeling that makes them to get angry, uncomfortable, irritated and stressful when they are confronted with views, opinions and beliefs or situations, contrary to their own beliefs and opinions they feel strongly about.

Such reactions tends to limit to a degree their perception and awareness of the perceived situation or opinions. This is called Cognitive Dissonance. It works to protect our conscious mind with scotomas and leads us to locking out useful opportunities needed to realise our full potential.

The creation of dissonance is distressful and produces a state of psychological tension. Our subconscious moves in to protect us from dissonance (anger) by blocking out from us the information that causes dissonance. It shuts us from some aspect of reality. We become resistant and react to new ideas and limit ourselves. The more different or discrepant the new information is from our own position the more dissonance and reaction we experience.

Generally this occurs when people are placed in new and unfamiliar situations. It could be a new job, new tools or new setting. The seetarian conflict and ethnic hatred or prejudice are the unfortunate illustrations of the theory.

The Subconscious works to protect our Conscious Mind from dissonance, when our conscious feels that tension. It builds scotomas or blind spots against information that does not match with our present beliefs.

This is what protects the Left Side Hemisphere and keeps it dominance over the Right Side.

Clustering

Before a decision is taken a lot of work and exploration goes on, data and facts are collected, to ensure a correct decision. However, after a decision is taken or a commitment is made then we cannot stand any criticism of it, we get upset if we are opposed. We tend to get people around to support our decision or views, they make us feel good and they look good for believing as we did. We cluster such people around us, the admiralties and the "loyalists". This is called Clustering.

Fear of Goals

If there is dissonance against new challenges, we rationalize into opting out of facing them, we hesitate to take up ventures requiring higher expectations, higher aims, such as to win a game, to complete a new job or go after a new client. Because of our belief structure, we hate to be confronted with the reality or goal we might not be able to achieve. We would quit taking the challenges of new goals.

Good Leaders

1.   They are very effective communicators.

      We communicate on three frequencies:

      a)  Remember, almost 70% of communications between man and man is non-verbal i.e., in terms              of Body Language.

      b)  Through spoken words.

      c)  Subconscious to Subconscious. Through intuition and instincts, the inner signals.                                 Communications are most effective when three frequencies are operating on TRUTH.

    

     Communication is that of a message and not meaning, the receiver intercepts the meaning.

2.   They have courage of faith and convictions. They are not insecure people.

3.   Operating on truth is operating with Cosmic Energy.

4.   They have High Self-Images and Self-Esteem.

5.   They recognize that opposite views don't hurt.

6.   They know that what they are perceiving as truth, is merely their version of truth, may well be             half the truth.

7.   They are very analytical and skeptical about what they see. They would like to verify what they           perceive.

8.   They are always prepared to listen to others, to get to the real truth. They are always looking for         greater option.

9.   They are people of high Self-Esteem, always prepared to confront with new ideas and new ways         of doing things.

10.  They open up to greater challenges and higher goals. They are option thinkers and open minded.        They appreciate and encourage criticism and analysis.

11.  They sell their ideas by pure strength of conviction and do not force them on others.

12.  They are not hesitating and procrastinating.

13.  Good Leaders are honest, fair "I am OK and you are OK" people.

Low image and hesitating people need a lot of reassurance and proof that other people have tried the same thing before they succeeded. They also need constant of admiration, support and presence of loyal and approving people around them.

Low-Performers

Scotomas prevent low performers from seeing the real problems and therefore real solutions. They have a tendency to manipulate perceptions based on their pre-conceived notions to become opinionated, stubborn, rigid and even prejudiced. So they lock on to what is apparent and build scotomas to views that don't match with theirs. They would cling on to old ways of doing things instead of trying out new ones. They lock on to the past to ignore what is required of the future. They look to problems instead of working out solutions.