Dinner, Hair, Victoria Castle, Shane Mulhall and 3 ways to trust.

On occasions I do find myself thinking about something profound like; “Who is God?”, “Why do we struggle so much?” and “Who am I?”
Quite a feat to have thoughts like these; they get stiff competition from thoughts about “making a living”, “what to eat for dinner?”, “my hair” and “what to wear today?”.

I do get a bit of help with these profound thoughts by reading or hearing other people’s thoughts who obviously have a great wardrobe, nice hair and a partner who cooks, seeing they have time for those thoughts.

But what I come up against when reading other people’s profound thoughts is, that I find myself mistrusting them. I keep looking for what they say actually works.

The presentation by Shane Mulhall, Principal of the School of Philosophy and Economic Science in Dublin reminded me that I am not the most trusting person.

His talk last week in Auckland addressed the “Who am I?” question in quite a lovely and humorous way.
Bless him; his presentation was after all on a Friday night!

What he covered was the difficult question; “Who am I?” and one of the things I liked was this example:
I cannot identify myself by saying; “I am a mother”.
He illustrates that I am also my parent’s daughter, a neighbor
and my brother’s sister for example.
What I do is act out those roles, so that still leaves the question:
“Who am I?”.

Shane Mulhall went on to say that to find answers to profound questions, you can follow somebody’s thoughts and preferably choose a wise person’s thoughts.
It looks like the school of philosphy got that sorted, as Shane quoted quite a few ’sages’.

“However following somebody’s thoughts requires trust” and “there is the problem”, he said.
Most of us refuse to trust people who have new to us thoughts; I am a case in point.
We apparently rather stick to our own old thoughts, even if they might be a bit shonky.
We rather trust the old devil than a new messiah.
He gave the example; if today you would see Jesus in his sandals and with his old fashioned hairdo would you follow his teachings.
Hmm good question.
If he was dressed in a contemporary business suit, I’d still think twice and would hope there would be a policeman around the corner to protect me from this lunatic.

But he made his point. How do I trust people and their different ways of thinking after I feel I have been lied to too often?

So I felt Shane hit the nail on the head with that remark about mistrust and I have been thinking how I am dealing with my own trust issue in these last few years.

How I’ve done it, is sticking to a few people who made sense, follow their thinking and really make a big effort to understand what they are saying AND then watching them.

One I found making sense is Victoria Castle with her book ‘Trance of Scarcity’.
I have mentioned her before and I love her explanation that we unconsciously come from ‘lack’ and ‘there is never enough’.
She says we are in a trance and that is why it is so hard to get out of that lack mindset.

Check it out for yourself; how often do you say; “sorry, not enough time,
not enough money, not enough power, not enough staff, not enough
attention, holidays ….”

No wonder my thoughts of lack keep popping up and hindering my manifesting ability.
So, I like Victoria and her message.
I have done her Embodied Abundance teleclass and learnt a lot.

Victoria says that thinking about how to change your feelings of lack is not enough.
You actually need to feel that there is enough; you need to feel abundance and she does that by teaching how both the mind and body get embodied abundance.

The great thing about Victoria is that she has not let me down.
I trust her message AND what is more I trust her.
She walks the talk and is really about making a difference.

How do I know?

She is involved in an awesome website to connect women all over the world to give abundance back to the earth by caring for the environment.

There is a lot we can do by mindfully going through life caring for what we have.
In fact that is all we ever need to do.
Interested in what she and other women are creating?
Have a look and see how wonderful the Hot Women For A Cool Planet site is.

So after all this join me in mindgym and 3 ways to change your thinking;

• Listen to a person sharing their thoughts without interrupting or busying yourself with your own thoughts. Listen, taste and delay judgment. Ever seen a baby going on solids? Don’t react like that with other people’s thoughts, take time to taste them and don’t spit them out immediately.
• Read a book and ponder. Don’t rush to a new book, just take time to think about what you have read. You are not dealing with chocolates here.
• Follow your heart. Gauge your reaction and don’t use your mind only. This is a challenge, but see how you go.