The Awaken Mind

Saw this video regarding the use of Seatbeal, it brought out a very clear message, meeting an accident is not your own issue, it involve many family member, friends and others close to you. so it is not about you insisting on your freedom of you can do whatever you want and like, your decision sometime does affect others.

The most beautiful seatbelt advocacy commercial ever

In contrary to most people’s belief, family are usually very important to most people, because when asked why they are doing or wanting to do for, most people will usually have ”to provide for my family” as a reason.

What am I driving at?  Don’t ignore someone important to you! Make sure you don’t risk yourself unnecessarily. that’s what I’m driving at!

There once was a rhesus monkey who was put into a special cage. This cage had red, yellow and green squares. After serveral days, an “experimenter” set it up so that the red squares gave out intermittent shocks causing the monkey much pain. The monkey became anxious but soon learned to avoid the red square. Next the experimenter cause the red and yellow squares to give off intermittent shocks, and the monkey acted as if he was a manic depressive, althernating from hyper-anxiety to depression and withdrawal . The monkey soon learned to avoid the red and yellow squares and then all the square were electrified. The monkey bagan to bite itself, beat its head against the bars and defecated on himself.  You might say the little monkey had been driven crazy.

This experiment took one month. He was then transferred to a second cage with a white floor. Soft music was played, he was touched and held and fed. Within a short time, he clamed down and within two weeks he was playful and exploring his cage. He could not be seen as different from a monkey from a rhesus population that had not been subjected to the experiment.

Well, what do you expect from a dumb monkey? He’s not as smart as a man. He didn’t know how to hold onto the past forever, nor continue to anticipate disaster. He only knew how to adapt to changing circumstances.  – Monsters & Magical sticks

Everybody realized children can acquired a new behavior pretty quickly, as long as they think it make sense to them, they can adopt it so easily and do it so readily. 

how nice if we adult did not loose this ability over the years of growing up!Why the same does not apply to adults, you might ask? this is because we adult have been filled full in-term of our belief and habit compare to children whom their brain is sill develop and still have a lot of capacity to hold many more things.

As adult, once we get used to doing thing a certain way, we’ll stick to doing it that way, this is due to the fact that our sub-conscious are quite ‘lazy’ they will control us in a way that we use least effort to perform a task, if we can walk, we’ll not run, if we can stand, we’ll not walk, and if we can sit, we’ll not stand …….  for eg, if smoking a stick of cigarette make you feel good, you’ll not go for a 5 km run to make you feel good (some really think they feel good after a run). not that smoking is good for your health.

So, if a habit of yours formed, it most likely was being interpreted as the most efficient way of doing certain thing.  In-order to remove a so-called ‘bad habit’, solely depending on ‘will power’ which is controlled by our conscious mind might not get good result.  Ever heard of a joke “quit smoking is easy, I’ve done that many time!”.  This is why for some, they can ‘quit’ smoking for so many times and still get the habit back.  For others who go on a diet , loose some weight and the weight yoyo back on.  That is because they did not replace the ‘bad habit’ with an alternative behavior, hence, to effectively replace a ‘bad habit’, there are 2 things you need to do:

1. to think of something to do, or another alternative way of doing it (the ‘bad habit’) that will achieve the same effect you want to achieve. do it so many time that your subconscious ‘think’ that is the only way to do it.

    

    

2. Visualizing in your mind that you are doing the ‘new habit’ and feel really good about doing it, the mind can’t differential what’s real and what is imagined, so performing step 2 more will ‘fool’ your mind in thinking it really feels good and want to do it that way.

    

Hopefully, with this information, you can have better success in making yourself better! mentality, physically and emotionally!