Feelings

Feeling Versus Thought

How we feel about something has nothing to do with how to accomplish/fix/help

How we feel about something does help to motivate us to respond

Our response has the best possibility of success if:

A   We feel something when exposed to it

B   We suppress our own feelings (personal prejudice) and rationalize the issue

C   We then meld the reality of the issue with how we feel about it

D   Decide the best action plan that is rational to the point you can live with it

People are subject to nature.  Nature can help or hinder us in many ways.  Our “human” nature is no exception.

The truth is a concept we have lost touch with.  Here are some trends that contribute to this:

1 We “feel” so intensely and instantaneously when reading or hearing any voice, headline or sound bite.  This blocks the rational thought that MUST temper our feelings.  Truth is NOT a feeling!

2 Why are we so reactive to stimulus in this era?  We have been conditioned.  Probably not intentionally at first anyway.  Smart people can see things ahead of and differently than the masses.  There are smart people!  We need to learn what they know!

3 The Information Age.  The wondrous cataloguing of knowledge and art has been overshadowed by the incredible masses who are losing the drive for “real” experiences. 

4 Playing physical games like “tag” outside has been replaced with watching others do it online.

5 The imagination required to bring the pages of a book alive or fill in the missing parts to an older cheesy movie is waning.

6 Money.  Power.  Pretty much have gone hand in hand for as long as man has walked the planet.

For us to have a chance to begin our journey to thinking correctly we need to understand how money and power influence our world and the sensory input we are fed 24 hours a day 7 days a week!

OK.  We have all heard this kind of lead before.  It usually signifies the beginning of an attempt to control our feelings (notice I didn’t say thoughts or minds).  This is the exact opposite.

Remember that wherever you get your “facts” from has to stay in operation, so they need to make money.

Businesses of all types, including government and religious groups must have money or they cease to exist.

We are so easily controlled by our emotions that every top notch sales guru has the same message:

Teaching will get you a teacher’s salary…

Entertaining will get you paid like an entertainer…

People buy things because the WANT to…not because of the product necessarily…

If you want to earn a teacher’s pay…TEACH…

If you want to earn like an entertainer…ENTERTAIN!!!!

We have become so accustomed to following our feelings that we believe we THINK what we feel.

The Information Age is not bad.

People are not bad.

We have lost (if we ever had it in the first place) the ability to think correctly.

Balance is key…in just about all things…well all things I can think of anyway!

What is the answer?

Thinking Correctly!