Living Without Chaos

I had a new experience last night. For the first time in my life I was actually hypnotized. I always believed that I couldn’t be hypnotized. It had to do with my firm belief that my mind could resist anything. (The reason for the blog title is that the hypnosis took me deep in my subconscious thoughts.)

Why I thought that, I have no idea. I mean, if my mind could resist anything that it could resist all the temptations that surround me, like the temptation not to get up and go for a walk or the temptation to eat pecan pie even though I know what it will do to my blood sugar levels and the impact it would have on my goal to lose 100 pounds (35 down, 65 to go).

One of my passions is trying to understand our brains and the left right brain dichotomy and the subconscious versus conscious way of thinking. Looking back after having been hypnotized, I wonder what made me think my brain was a different than anyone else’s brain. The power of our subconscious is outstanding.

The hypnotist, Jeff Lynn, mentioned several times how important it was to change what we do if we want to change our lives. I already knew this. Actually this entire blog is pretty much about the need for change.

Knowing you need to change and making the change are two entirely different things.

Overcoming Procrastination

Every problem I’ve ever had in my life began with procrastination. Everything from library fines because I just couldn’t quite get around to returning the books on time to putting of renewing my drivers license to setting up a retirement plan to maintaining my health – all the problems I had over the years began with this kind of silly laziness My attitude was that there is always tomorrow.

Maybe the tomorrow plan worked for Scarlet O’Hara but that was fiction. Take a look at your own life and think about the one major thing you would like to change. Does it involve procrastination?

Think hard.

And then start planning a way to make the necessary change. As my sister Carol always says, you’re a long time dead. You might as well make life as good as it can be.