Paradigm Shifts and Ordinary Enlightenment
Table of contents for The Practice of Having an Open Mind
- Power of Mantra
- Listening Experiment
- Accept Everything
- Just Live it
- Jonestown Kool Aid and Grandpa’s Trash Bins
- Try Being Humble, Really Humble
- Embracing Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
- Success by Yellow Pad
- Prepare to Meet the Villain
- Paradigm Shifts and Ordinary Enlightenment
- Stop, Look, and Support
- The Practice of Empathy
Okay, so here’s another brain stretching suggestion: not quite as out there as how roller-coasters are good for your grey matter but close. Today my wife drove my Jeep and I rode in the passenger seat … whoa, what a difference. Everything looked different, even the radio. It got me thinking about perceptions. It does a human mind good to have a paradigm shift like that once in a while. It makes you realize your reality is so very subjective.
You might try mixing something up this week, just for a hoot. As you try the change, don’t be surprised if it opens your mind to new ideas. This is the stuff that “breakthroughs” are made of and science calls it a “paradigm shift.” I call it the stuff dreams are made of.
One place I have experienced paradigm shifts in my teaching job more than anywhere else in life has been in my parent conferences. Sometimes you never understand the kid until you meet the parents. Sometimes that brings all the planets of understanding into alignment. Of course there are always anomalies.
Make a change in your routine and invite a paradigm shift, it’s guaranteed to open your mind further. Just by doing the smallest thing differently you become a bit more enlightened.
Some ideas to stimulate your thinking toward a paradigm shift this week:
- Walk around the house naked (for me lately it would be a shift to walk around clothed, sorry to curse you with with such a visual)
- Play a CD you dislike in your car.
- Put the most important stuff at the bottom and the fun stuff at the top of your task list.
- Try a new theme on your blog.
- Eat healthy/non-healthy
- Your own marvelous and creative ideas …
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Where do you live??? The steering wheel is on the right! I thought you were American. I haven’t even read the post yet, but I am completely distracted by the picture!
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LOL. I got that photo off Flickr, you can click on it to see the original source. No, I live in sunny California where the steering wheels are on the left side! ;)
I just did. I changed the theme on one of my blog. :)
Which one? Too cool!
Too many teenagers and their friends around to run around the house naked here. I’d get arrested. Although, that probably would change my perspective about things LOL
I’ll come up with some idea and put it into play. This sounds like the makings of an excellent blog entry :)
Thanks JTRC. If you get a good paradigm shift, let us know!