Do you have crap in your head? Undoubtedly you have – we all have. But if you’re paying attention to the crap in your head, you are simply creating the crap that you have in your life. You are what you think. Unfortunately, it isn’t just the thoughts that you’re aware of that create your life, it’s a little more subtle than that. In fact, more than anything else, you are what you’re thinking subconsciously. Your subconscious mind rules – or ruins – your life. All your behaviour, everything that you do, every single reactions and all your interactions – with people who are close to you, companions, workmates and even strangers – are all dictated by your subconscious. And the really gynormous problem is that, because of the way you’re wired, all this happens automatically.
However, you’ve got an even bigger problem. Your subconscious mind is crammed with crap. It’s crap because it has nothing to do with who you are or what you’re supposed to be doing right here, right now. The crap is a hangover from your childhood, when you were young and impressionable – from what we all know as our formative years. And, even though all the automatic behaviour happens subconsciously, every so often you’re actually aware of the crap. Sometimes you might feel down, suffer from stress, negative or depressed. You might think that you’re useless, shy or inadequate. At certain times, or in some situations, you could feel anxious or nervous. Maybe you feel that you’re lacking self-confidence or that you’re being dragged down by low self-esteem. But this is just crap created by crap! This is the crap that has your life stuck where it is – and you’re letting it happen by paying attention, whether you’re aware of it or not, to the crap that’s wedged in your head.
This crap won’t go away – but you can decide whether or not you pay attention to it – either consciously or, in actual fact, subconsciously. This is what personal development or self improvement is all about. You see, as a grown up, you can actually take charge of your subconscious mind – decide, in each moment, what you’ll pay your attention to. So you have to choose to turn your attention to something real instead of letting your subconscious mind just lead you by the nose into an ever deepening vortex of crap. There’s only thing that’s really real in your life – the here and now. This is where you could actually be the very best you if you could only stop paying attention to all the crap. Start paying attention to now – to what you see, feel, hear, smell and taste. This focus will drag your subconscious (sometimes kicking and screaming) away from its natural obsession with all the unreal crap. As things stand, you don’t really experience anything real because you see it through the fog of crap. You’ve got to clear the fog – it won’t clear on its own because it’s your personal fog. Clear the fog by appreciating that it isn’t there at all! There is no fog.
All that’s here is what is here now. So teach yourself to pay attention to your five senses – make sense of the here and now instead of nonsense. It will change your life.
