Have you ever heard of mind assocation?
Probably not, but you should definitely get to know it because it’s been running your life for years!
Even though you have little idea what the phrase means, that doesn’t prevent it from being a constant in your life. In fact, in virtually all the thoughts and beliefs you have every single day, mind association is at work. At work and running the show.
What is mind association?
Well, to answer that before we move on, let me ask you a question.
What does money mean to you?
And there it is! In your response.
The Mind Associates, You Respond.
What was your answer to the question?
I could have added others such as what money is for and the biggee, on who it is for. But, that one question is usually enough. The second you heard the question, your mind association kicked in. The mind linked what you have been taught to believe about money or been influenced by your environment. And even the relationship you had with it when growing up all led to your mind associating a specific opinion, or certain beliefs and feelings, about it.
That could be (in the voice in your mind)…
‘Money makes people greedy, they become selfish and arrogant’.
‘I’m sure money isn’t for the likes of me, I will never have any in my life’.
‘Money is definitely all freedom and fun. It makes life more of a pleasure’.
And so on. The mind has associated x (money) with y (what it means) and put the two together to create a viewpoint in your head. Often a very fixed viewpoint you never waiver from. Try telling someone who has experienced damaging affects in family or relationships caused by money (fall outs, tightfistedness, debt from overspending) that money is a positive tool in life. Or another from a wealthy family that it’s a scarce resource.
These effects are hard to dislodge. Even harder is that until I showed you how it’s operating like this, you were completely unware of its presence in your life. You just believed what you believe. Or thought you did.
But that belief was mind association.
Unexplored Thinking.
We never question what we believe and why.
We simply take it as read and react accordingly. No enquiry, no self questioning.
If I told you that if you did you could free yourself from some of your long held problems, you might think again.
There are some very famous MA examples you’ve most likely heard of.
‘All men are a waste of time and can’t be trusted’.
‘Immigrants are usually criminals or here for an easy ride at our expense’.
‘I’m from a working class background, people like me are meant to just be the workers, not success stories’.
In most cases we are beaten before we are started. The end goal/positive outcome is never allowed to see the light of day due to mind association. When an important life area comes to mind (love, success. money, good place to live) the mind immediately fires a negative association as above and shuts the whole shebang right down, right there.
We accept that belief without ever thinking, ‘Hang on a minute, is that really true?’. Our thinking is never explored to seek out the source of those thoughts. One bad guy killed your chance for love but not all men are the same. After all some of your best friends have awesome husbands. The news only features bad immigrants but there are plenty around you who are great law abiding, tax paying citizens.
You get my drift.
Mind association is often a culprit not a good companion.
Time to Think Again.
It could be you need a rethink. Are you game?
If you are committed grab a piece of paper and a pen. We’re going to play the association game.
Write down some of the key areas of your life you are experiencing issues, especially long standing ones. Then simply scribble one or two words you associate with that situation. For example, a girl I was very close to had married young and was very scared at getting seriously involved again after a bitter divorce. Her nickname for me, someone she knew loved her? Pain!
For years in relation to money I would use the word ‘struggle’ (it became so). And on my own list next to ‘Home’ I wrote, ‘basic’ (I only owned a small apartment for 20 years).
Your turn. Be honest, don’t filter out answers. Take the first one/couple that you sense first. Be brave. Braver still ask a good friend or family member to write down some situations from your life (career, family etc) without your prior knowledge. It will be interesting what you associate with them in your answers with no prompts in advance.
It’s eye watering stuff I can tell you. It reveals so much of what is going on behind the scenes in you that’s blocking your happy path ahead. What the mind associates with, is what you experience. Or stop yourself from.
And you badly need to find out so you can get your best prospects back.
Because mind association is running, and quite possibly, ruining your life.
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SuperMind Thinking creates super people.
And women have been as super as anyone especially as it’s predominately been a man’s world in the past. Super successful, super inspiring, and supermind thinkers creating super true life stories.
Special women have always been making a difference and forging their own path with their insight and talents. They have carved fresh paths for all of us.
History credits men as having been the main instigators of everything from the car to the internet. That, though, is not only highly unfair to women, it’s incredibly selective. The truth is, women have been equally adept at using their SuperMind Thinking and producing some of the finest and supreme end results.
So, let’s delve into the SuperMinds of Super Women.
SuperWoman is Not a Fantasy.
For too long if you mention a Superwoman, most people would think of the Marvel hero. Or, in other words, a fantasy cartoon character.
Then the mind would then drift to Wonder Woman, an Amazonian princess, and so on. And so average thinking is already going down the wrong road. Superwomen are NOT some fun species or mystical film figure. They are, and have always been, ordinary women who have utilised the full capacity of their minds to forge monumentous results. And these are often amazing creations and developments that men have ended up taking the credit for, or not telling the true story of a woman’s genius that really made it all happen.
Have you heard of Ada Lovelace? Probably not. The device, however, you may be reading this post on or work with every day, was actually down to her work. That is, the computer. Yes!!
Charles Babbage has long been credited as the innovator of the first one. It’s true that Babbage had been experimenting with very basic computing machine contraptions before he met Ada with little success. She was the power behind the Analytical Engine (it’s prototype name) by creating the first programming language so it could actually compute. That first language was even called Ada after her.
Together they pioneered the technological breakthrough the world takes for granted today. In my opinion it’s an injustice that Babbage always get associated as the lone inventor when it was Ada Lovelace who made a dead thing come to life like no machine had ever done before. Even more super was that all of this was in the 1840’s, over 130 years before the computer industry as we know it today, came to wider availability.
As the British Science Museum stated, she..’was a Century ahead of her time’.
That’s a SuperMind of a Superwoman.
Historic Heroines.
Name a well known woman from history.
There are many household names of women in history who made their mark in some dramatic way – Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale, Oprah Winfrey, Emmeline Pankhurst just to mention but a few. But, hidden from view have been many unheralded heroines. SuperMind women whose contribution or role advanced humanity. Take these, for example –
Rosalind Franklin – the integral piece of evidence that proved the secret of life that is the double helix structure of DNA, was supplied by Rosalind through her photograph 51.
Elizabeth Fry – the ‘Angel of Prisons’, who campaigned in Victorian times for prisons to have better conditions as well as improving the hospital system in England.
Wangari Maathai – a Kenyan environmentalist who founded the Green Belt Movement and was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Katherine Johnson – a key critical member of the NASA team on the first moon landing in1969. Her calculations helped correct the trajectory for the flight to the Moon and an accurate site to set down on.
In so many fields of life, women and their amazing minds have been there all along since the dawn of time.
Creating, innovating, breaking through, evolving, and pushing for change. Where would we be without them?
More Women to Come .
Times have changed. Women are a true power nowadays and growing in influence.
The stories above prove how humanity has benefited by the wonderful mindsets, talents, spirit and determination of women. This has just not been recognised enough. Or even promoted in the mainstream.
Well, not here on these pages!!
It’s time for women everywhere to step forwards and be given every chance and respect for their ideas, outlook, and creativity. They have a veritable Universe of potential and possibility within their minds. All of us need to encourage women to unlock this. Let’s provide them with opportunity and platforms to progress their SuperMind Thinking into reality for the good of all of us.
There has to be more women to come who will take us to brilliant places we have never been before. We have to open up their fabulous minds and let everything in there to flow so they can. Minds that are badly needed. THEY are badly needed. This is my call to the world.
Super women and their SuperThinking can change the future for all of us.
References – www.brittanica.com – Ada Lovelace, www.historyextra.com – 100 women who changed the world.
Wikipedia – Elizabeth Fry, Nasa.gov – Katherine Johnson Biography, NoblePrize.org – Wangari Maathai.
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Five thoughts, ideas, insights, or quotes to power up your mind to think differently and creatively about life and who we are. Put all previous thinking away and open up a brand new world of the Supermind. YOUR SuperMind.
This week – Aging Population.
The world is getting increasingly populated. Notably, every year more people are born than die putting pressure on resources, especially our social health ones. Greatest of all those pressures are how to deal with an aging population. Secondly, those that live longer and longer also no longer work and contribute to the economy in the same way, i.e taxes on earnings, work spending etc. This strains our social systems and that’s only going to get worse. SuperMind Saturday triggers new thoughts about this challenge.
1. Home or Hospital?
Modern hospitals aren’t just for treatment and health care anymore. They also tend to be where many older people end up stuck as there is nowhere for them to go after their surgery. Social services are severely stretched and have few placements for them.. One solution would be to offer tax breaks or payments to people who have spare rooms where they could be housed or stay. A form of home recuperation that unclogs the bottlenecks?
2. Brain Gyms.
One of the chief medical concerns with an aging population is declining minds. Alzheimer’s disease is on a rapid rising curve. Over the years since the inception of the internet, minds no longer work hard like they used to. Lack of use leads to a gradual decaying of mental faculties. Older people are highly vulnerable. It’s time for brain work to ensure the brain still works. The mind is as much as muscle as the others in the body. Governments should develop a programme of brain gyms for those over 50. Regular classes (just like Pilates or Zumba) to test, strengthen, and push the mind (puzzles, lateral thinking etc) and slow the degeneration.
3. Maturing Capital.
The cost of managing an aging population is spiralling. Instead, an alternative funding source to ease the burden is required. A possible suggestion to lessen fiscal pressure on Governments, health providers, and social care systems, – a specific set of future care investments can be created for people over 40. Part of the maturity of the investment/bonds can then be utilised to pay for future care or improved personal support. What other capital ideas could be set up to assist countries in paying for older person’s care?
4. Making Use of the Mature.
Growing old is no longer a death sentence. Retirees now a) retire younger and b) live far longer after retiring than ever before. That means there is plenty of life in older people. That’s why it’s called the Golden Age. They have a huge range of skills and abilities on tap and oodles of enthusiasm to go with it. They still want to be involved and part of the world. So why not put them to use? How can we find ways for them to fill in the gaps in the community where needed? How can we make use of the mature locally so it keeps them on the move and mentally and physically active?
5.Growing Old Disgracefully.
A lesser know fact is that aging people are most likely to be daily spenders on goods and services than other age ranges. They also travel more, access public spaces, and contribute to charities more than other age groups. This makes them pivotal members of society. Older people want to have fun and enjoy life. Perhaps it’s time then that we change OUR attitude to them? How many companies near you tailor specific activities for this growing force of people? Activities younger people also enjoy? And why not add twining session? Pilates for over 50’s and under 20’s TOGETHER! What ideas do you have to help older people live disgracefully (but very happily)?
Ok, that’s it for another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking your best thoughts and having lots of ideas. Consider more, imagine bigger, think about untapped possibilities ‘out there’, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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Some people take time to find super success.
Ideas don’t stop and some of the best arrive after years of experience of living. The later mind knows this.
Regular belief has it that younger people are the ones who have the energy and drive to gain success. Older folks have done more of their living and are slowing down. They have less to want or chase, and live in a past world rather than looking to evolve a newer one. Younger men and women see how things can be plus they are in touch with current trends and interests.
Now, that could be true for some more mature minds, but certainly not all. They are still very much in the game. Older heads, for one, are shrewder. They are more patient, more measured. And they have plenty of previous failures and learning in droves to call on. In short, they carry wisdom and understanding.
Match that with a great idea, and pure gold is what a late starting mind can hold.
Finger Licking Fame.
You are 60 years old and your business has been thrown a curve ball.
Your living has been taken from under your feet, what are you going to do? Well, at that age, most would say to shut up shop and enjoy retirement. Not for one old timer.
Harland had been serving travellers his own brand of food since he was 37. At first it didn’t go down well. Despite losing all his money when his venture folded, he refused to give up and worked on perfecting his own unique recipe. Strife then came again when his next restaurant burnt down. Undaunted he rebuilt it but decided to focus instead on faster cooking time to be able to sell quicker by frying his food.
As he reached his mid-60’s he was doing reasonably well financially. Then came the final big hit. A new highway was built bypassing his service station cafe and all but destroying trade. He was down, but not out. He never lost faith in his own recipe and food. When visiting a friend’s burger joint in Salt Lake City, he cooked his special spiced dish for him. His friend loved it and put it on the menu. It went down a storm.
Buoyed by this Sanders got on the road and starting selling his spicy blend and how to add it into the food. He cut deals where he got a small payment for each one sold. Within 5 years he was represented in over 600 locations including Canada, Mexico, and even Jamaica and the UK.
Harland was Colonel Sanders. That spiced food recipe is the heart of KFC!
Finger licking fame came when an old head wouldn’t quit!!
Older is Golder.
Think of a top entrepreneur and the likes of a young Mark Zuckerberg (19 when FB started) or Bill Gates (23 years old when Microsoft launched) tend to be our first thought.
But, research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that a 50 year old business founder was twice as likely to exit their enterprise a successful person (wealthy, left a legacy etc). This data came from an analysis of 2.7 MILLION founders between 2007 and 2014!
This is true across many fields.
Love superhero comics? Stan Lee created The Fantastic Four on his 39th birthday (hardly a cartoon age) and developed the now stellar Marvel Universe world in his 40’s. Legendary Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson was a small time bit part player before landing the award winning role in Jungle Fever at the age of 43. He went on to play his most memorable roles as he neared 50 and beyond.
Most famous of all, Ray Kroc was 52 when he bought the basic McDonalds name and turned in into the global food chain it is today from his own vision way back in 1954. And the first iconic everyday brand of the motoring era was started by a 45 year old….Henry Ford, when cars were viewed as pointless contraptions that would never catch any mass appeal. He sold it to the world.
History holds true for this too. Charles Darwin was 50 when he published The Origin of the Species. An activist in his 40’s Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa at the age of 76. And James Bond never came alive as a character until Ian Fleming created him when he began writing when he was 44.
You see, slower starters can become fast and big finishers!
The Best is Yet to Come.
The best could yet be to come. If you keep your mind alive.
As the years pass ideas don’t die. It’s us that dismiss them and no longer look to have them. Especially long held ones that haven’t come to fruition. But our long standing desires and goals were Colonel Sanders chicken recipe or Nelson Mandela’s wish to lead his nation. One kept losing again and again, the other languished in jail.
Neither gave up. Instead their slow burning minds continued to fan the flames. Mental flames that one day fired up in real life. They were one of many who saw age as no barrier to achieving their vision. They kept the dream burning bright in their heads. Ensure you do the same.
Long and slow is often the lesser known secret to lasting super success.
References – Fleximize.com – The Story of Colonel Sanders.
KFC.co.uk – The Colonel’s Story Timeline.
Developgoodhabits.com – 35 People Who Became Successful Later in Life.
Businessinsider.com – 30 people who became highly successful after age 40.
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Where do ideas come from?
One minute they are not there, the next they appear in full colour in your mind. A never existing before concept or visionary future, for instance, coming out of nowhere, and arriving in your head. Something, you are convinced, that you could not have thought up yourself.
If you are not aware of conceiving them in the first place, where on Earth, or some other world, have they come from?
Is your mind merely a portal to receive suggestions from a higher place? A kind of window into another dimension or existence inside your mentality?
Well,……yes and no.
Let me explain – there IS a somewhere that delivers them.
From Out of Nowhere or Somewhere?
Firstly, let me tell you this. You are more than only one mind. You are two. Two together.
A joint mentality. And this is where the belief of portals comes from. The regular view is the mind is a mortal fixed brain and finite to many and therefore any super visions have to have another source. Typically this is read as a message from a spirit world or some alternative universe that flows through the portal into the mind. As the individual had no prior knowledge of the idea/information, it can’t have come from them. It’s supernatural in nature arriving through a portal the mind is connected to.
At this point I fully admit to having been very interested in all things spiritual for many years. I explored many aspects of spiritual matters. Something didn’t quite fit. No matter how much I loved to believe in higher beings intervening to assist us, I also knew that our mind exists as a higher mechanism in itself that has ample power to pull previously unconsidered options seemingly from out of nowhere.
Well not quite nowhere.
From our subconscious. If there is anything mystical at work here, it’s in this mysterious zone. It’s a kind of secret compartment that stores everything we have ever heard, seen, been told, learnt about, felt, understood etc. But here’s the beautiful thing. It’s also the location where our own personal insights/viewpoints/awarenesses and individual mind elements are kept deep in reserve. Our bigger unique blueprint.
And it’s in precise moments when current known thinking stands down, our second mind releases a suggestion from those back up reserves.
And that’s where the unknown becomes known.
Your Super Second Mind.
In addition to your conscious mind, in the background you have a second mind.
A super mind in effect.
Your first mind is the one you would recognise you use day in, day out. The task driven, work mode for life mind. The mind that helps you function to complete your day. To survive, shall we say. What I shall call, the human mind, or Mind Number One.
Then there is Mind Number Two. The highly creative, innovative, supremely and powerfully original subconscious mind that keeps all the fun stuff while the other mind deals with the boring everyday. Plus it holds your own personal destiny potential (more of this in a sec).
Trouble is pretty much most of us stay in boring everyday mode. We rarely, or only briefly, open up the fun mind. Therefore we only operate in a ‘need-to-do’ and ‘need-to-think-about’ type setting plus some fear worrying thrown in. Our mega mechanism for higher evolution we all carry in our brain sits there twiddling its thumbs. Which is why when you are having a long soak in the bath or away for a few days mini-break, human mind No.1 powers down. Then the super idea stuff gets its chance. Boom! A sudden flash of inspiration hits your mind.
It IS supernatural….well, super natural really i.e. massively natural.
Universe or Youniverse?
Could our minds be hooked into the Universe? Or part of our own special future world in our head?
I can’t be 100% sure, but I’d land on the side of the second option overall. I think there is something beyond our awareness, but it seems that the Gods are tormenting us if we are at the end of their portals. That being true means we must await their permission or clemency to put some life help in our mind. We would be their puppets.
I would suggest there has been imprinted in each of us, when we were created, an advanced instruction manual. In that exact fusion at conception each human to be was given a unique and amazing mindset in SuperMind No.2 that contains a special embryonic set of ideas, concepts, visions, and evolutionary potential. When we learn to access that field, a whole array of possibilities fire up. Not when in the traffic queue or supermarket, but when our front human mind is on an extended tea break.
Now when you suddenly imagine an awesome business idea or envision how you could change your future, you will know what is occurring. The portal isn’t open, your own SupermInd is. And it’s showing you some of the phenomenal stuff that was put there when your incredible life was instigated. So you can instigate a higher life here for yourself today. It’s an eternal echo.
Your mind isn’t a portal, it’s a master plan prototype for you to follow into production.
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