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 – Obesity.
We need food to live. And add some on for fun and pleasure. But, just enough so that we balance the two nicely as our overall diet. We also have to ensure that we don’t overeat to keep our health in good shape. Well, that’s what we SHOULD do, but more and more people certainly are not. Human obesity is showing a sharp increase so this week at SMS we are going to consider this growing problem.
1. Easy Food, Easy Calories.
Worldwide obesity has doubled since 1990 and some 1 billion people are now classed as obese. This is a rapid rise in such a short span of time in human history. How come? Well, also in that time we have seen a massive increase in takeaways, food deliveries, and supermarkets open for long hours. Food is easily available and always nearby or on our plates without any effort. What comes easy too are the calories contained within this often not so healthy food option buying. Should we curb the ability for us to access food like this in some kind of regulation before it’s too late?
2. Consequence for Calories.
Health services everywhere are straining under the pressure from this obese epidemic. They have to deal with all the myriad of health conditions overeating causes in people from diabetes to poor mobility as examples. It seems the view is that somehow health providers will solve the issues that people have created themselves by their eating habits (I know some nurses who will confirm this). Trouble is the very same people come back again and again with more issues from not changing their behaviour. So, should their be a consequence for those that consume up appointments and treatments like they consume food? Should there be a limit of care for people who simply won’t help themselves?
3. Too Young to be Too Heavy.
Adolescent obesity has quadrupled since 1990 and in 2024 over 35 million children under 5 were already overweight. This is shocking and scary. The most shocking of all is children don’t get to choose what they eat, they require their parents to allow and pay for their meals. Children of the past were given the odd treat as part of a balanced, sensible diet. Not today. Again quick and easy seems parental preference too often. How do we encourage parents to cook better? Or is there another reason, such as adults are working longer and longer hours than ever and so have less time? How do we help children eat well again?
4. Bad Food Not Bad People.
People have lapsed into bad food choices. Yes, one is because it saves time and effort, but also, it can’t be denied, some of it tastes good. Food companies have created dishes that have an addictive quality. No wonder then that the average person keeps coming back for more, especially as they can get it almost everywhere. As a world, we are hooked on this. We don’t mean it, we’re not bad people. Addicts for the taste and favour. And there’s the problem. How can we remove or quell the addictive nature of foods that are causing the obesity issue?
5. Benefits for Better.
Right now our minds clearly don’t see the benefit in not being obese – better health, feeling more energetic, not needing medication etc. Our taste buds override this. The benefit is attached to the enjoyment not the ongoing improvements. Quick hits are far more inspiring that longer term positives. Maybe it’s time for other benefits as an encouragement to change diet. What benefits or mini reward can be given to those currently obese so that they improve their eating AND stay that way? How do we change behaviours with a benefit, especially for the young?
Ok, that’s another SuperMind Saturday done. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and to solve some of the issues mentioned. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think. You have more answers and ideas than you ever previously thought possible!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
References – World Health Organisation – Obesity and Overweight.
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Would you like to change your life?
Change it like you have never done before?
Well, you can. It only takes a change of mind first. That change is in your subconscious mind.
Being honest, I’d say you have probably heard of your subconscious but have no idea how it operates in your head or even if it operates at all. Well, let me tell you, it’s very real and alive and working in your background all the time.
And mostly it’s working to undermine you by spreading bad news in your head.
So, let’s bring it out in the open and turn it into a confidence booster rather than a party pooper.
The Bad Voice.
I want you to think of your subconscious as a voice in your head.
It’s that one that whispers the kind of crappy advice such as, ‘Be careful, it will all go wrong’, or ‘Don’t bother, you could never do that’, and general doom and gloom messages. In other words, it’s very subtle like a thief in the night, but it’s also very skilful at doing what it does. That’s because all those dreams and plans you never followed through with, or the ideas you still have that you talk yourself out of, have therefore been the subconscious influencing you. Persuading you NOT to go ahead or give it a go.
Alternatively, it also grabs you in a pincer movement. It pumps you full of fears and negatives in general about the world, predicting that almost everything could be a threat and that either you or your life might meet some downfall. Recognise either? Or both?
Firstly, you may now be thinking how does it do it? And secondly, that’s because you are not truly aware of how it’s stopping you.
Ok, consider something you want to achieve. Be a successful lawyer. Win the heart of that girl/guy in accounts. Run a half marathon. Become a retro 1960’s dress designer. Open a specialist ice cream parlour. The type of future where you will better yourself for yourself.
The first thoughts you have of your aspiration will be based on what it would be like; how good it would feel, yourself being fulfilled, popular or well off, and the like. The normal conscious thoughts.
Then naughty subconscious interjects like a nervous parent. It reminds you of anything and everything that could be a pitfall. Except it turns them into a likelihood. And guess what goes through your mind? The guy or girl rejects you in front of everyone or you won’t run more than a mile and people will point and laugh at you. Your ice cream sucks and you lose a fortune.
It happens in the blink of an eye!
Millisecond madness.
The trouble is all this above occurs a millisecond after your initial idea/imagination of what you want. It jumps into your mind and hijacks your feelings and beliefs. As a result, after that happens a number of times you give up, convinced it’s all a waste of time and you the biggest waste of all. However my friend, it’s YOUR subconscious mind so you have one task up your sleeve to prevent it ruining things….
You have to retrain it!
You see your subconscious is part of you that’s been left to run amok unchecked. A bit like teenagers having a house party without supervision. It’s got out of control because it only remembers all the times when situations turned against you. It’s a guard dog that reads everyone as a danger. It requires retraining.
As it’s yours, you are the one who is boss. The leader of your mental pack that tells it to heel, sit down, and obey. Naturally, only in a nice way though.
Act with belief and begin communicating with your subconscious. Upon finishing this post pay attention to your subconscious. Wake it up. Imagine something better for yourself. WAY better. Scale it up in your mind. Make it the top outcome, a brilliant ending. As you begin your subconscious will stir like a sleeping lion and bite back.
It will bear it’s killer teeth by pushing every bad scenario at you. But, you are now prepared. Here is your moment of truth.
You are going to fight back.
Fight the good fight.
Some fights are worth winning. This one 100% is!
The moment you spot those poor predictions and bad feelings rising you are going to replace them.
Firstly, when the initial negative thought hits, you are going to firmly state, ‘NO, that is not true. This is..’
And at that point reiterate in your mind that you will succeed. Add self-confident thoughts and sayings. Examples could be, ‘This is me as I am meant to be’, or, ‘This is what I want, and I fully deserve all of it’. Make the effort to feel good emotions about your aims and desires so that they will link to the thoughts and vision. Connect them all up. One new set of subconscious instructions. The new mindset norm.
Secondly…KEEP AT IT!!
This is not a one day or once a day or week exercise. Persist. Repeat. Day after multi-day. IT IS GOING TO WORK!!
Soon (a few weeks maybe, slightly longer for the majority) your subconscious will start acting in a confident manner. It will start to encourage and drive you. Optimism and excitement surges and increasingly bursts through. You feel good about the future. The lion is turning into a pussy cat.
And if you never let up doing this, you will be a super subconscious capable of anything. God, imagine where you could be in a year from now?? So, do it!!
Set your mind to it, your subconscious mind.
Create that mega confidence in there and ride the new mental wave to somewhere very new.
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Have you ever seen the movie, ‘Sliding Doors’?
It’s a film about a sudden twist of fate.
PR girl Helen is leaving work after getting fired. She drops an earring and in a split second she misses her London Tube train. But, in a parallel universe she makes the train. That subtle difference alters the whole trajectory and future of her life.
When she didn’t make the train she didn’t find her partner cheating on her when she got home. Having lost her job she had to take two part time jobs, found out she was pregnant and eventually realised her boyfriend’s infidelity and meets a sad and tragic end.
In the twist option – she gets on the train and meets a kind guy who finds her earring and they get chatting. After discovering her other half with his secret lover she splits from him but gets closer to the man she met on the Underground. Despite being in a serious accident, love conquers all and there is a happy ending.
I’m sure you are now asking what that has got to do with your mind.
Everything!
Subtle change = Big change.
Slight changes lead to a whole new direction.
Let’s say there are two airplanes flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles. If one of them changed their course by only one degree, it would miss the intended airport by 6 miles. If the flight was between Washington DC and Europe, it would end up in a completely different country than the first plane.
This is the compound effect of a slight change multiplied mile after mile. The magnitude of deviation, as it’s called, becomes greater and greater after each mile.
Now think thoughts and days instead of miles.
One current person down on his or her luck with a friend who is in the same boat. Apply the One Degree principle. Person one aims for happy times but carries on thinking and doing the same as always. Their friend doesn’t. They begin amending their thinking, gradually taking on their limiting beliefs, and generally improving their mindset.
In one year good old No.1 hasn’t gone anywhere. Their fixed lower thoughts have kept them in a fixed lower life circumstances. Not so their pal. They have begun to move in different circles. Their upgraded mindset got them more determined, more active, trying out new things, reaching and connecting more. Their life, day after day, has grown out of all proportion. They now live in a vastly, and more progressive world.
A subtle change repeated becomes a big change experienced.
Opening the doors to your future.
You won’t need sliding doors to open the doors to your future.
You only have to open your mind. That’s where your fate lies. In your own head.
It’s akin to taking one step onto a completely different, but brighter road, with every better thought and belief you have. In the end, just like in Sliding Doors, you will find yourself in a new reality with a totally unexpected, but massively positive, outcome.
Billy Joel trained as a classical pianist and had an ambition to create classical music as a composer. One day though he sat down to watch the Ed Sullivan show. His guests that week were The Beatles. Hearing and watching them he was both moved and transfixed in one. Right then and there he vowed to write more popular music and created a new style. His mind effectively put him on another plane (deliberate pun) so he would land in another music world from the one he had been existing in.
That’s for you too. You can jump worlds from one to another and fly into a very different future by changing your mindset.
‘What I want’, becomes, ‘What I am doing’.
‘Where I have been’, becomes, ‘Where I am going’.
Or profoundly, ‘Who I thought I might be’, becomes, ‘Who I know I am and always will be’.
And even, ‘What I feared’, now becomes, ‘What I am determined to do’.
So slide on into new thoughts, bigger beliefs, and an upgraded vision of what matters to you and what fires you up inside, and open doors everywhere for yourself to go. You have that imaginative power to form a brand new life soon down the line.
SuperMinds use The Sliding Doors mindset to open up destinations they weren’t going before.
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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 – Cost of Living.
Many things typify current life on Earth. Some have been around for a while, some are only recent. And the prime one among the recent is the cost of living. Not a week goes by without some product, service, or bill going up….and continuing to do so. It’s been a very long time since so many people at all levels are experiencing such financial challenge like this.
As such, SuperMind Saturday thinks we should get our minds round this contemporary concern.
1. World Worries.
Most countries have experienced periods of heightened inflation. Times when costs rose sharply far beyond incomes. Most of these were individual national cycles of expansion and reduction in the economy. One nation struggling, others more prosperous. Those days are in the rear view mirror nowadays. Due to bad management (or greed) by financiers, they have made it a cross world problem. Everyone gets the squeeze.
Is it time to return to national economic management? Should sharing debts and investments internationally by banks be banned or highly limited to protect vulnerable economies?
2. Living Beyond our Means?
The cost of purchasing every items like bread, butter, and milk have increased. So too the price of our energy and utility bills. But, look a little deeper and there is other spending people are making other than household outlays. In previous downturns that lifted inflation people cut their coat according to their cloth i.e. living within their means. No spending on what they really didn’t need. Not today. People still expect new clothes, meals out, holidays, social trips. What used to be luxuries are now classed as the norm.
Are we living beyond our reasonable means? Has the costs of living been replaced by the costs of pleasure and fun?
3. No Shrinkflation Profits.
Shirinkflation. A term that never existed ever until that last few years. It refers to how companies shrink the size of the product but still charge the same money (and even more in some examples). The price has effectively risen for the consumer while the producer gains in revenue and less production expense. It often makes the news especially in relation to big brand firms and supermarkets. During the last few years profits for some of these has increased through this practice. But they never tell us, they slip it onto the shelves all hush hush.
How do we protect the consumer from this underhand behaviour? Could we force companies to declare their shrinkflation items in advance so shoppers can make an informed choice?
4. Who is Paying For All This?
The world isn’t built on credit anymore. It’s built and held up by debt. Millions upon millions of citizens owe money on mortgages, credit cards, and other bills. Desperate to try and survive they have had to roll up debt to keep a house over the head and live there sufficiently. Debt used to be viewed as a bad thing. It appears it’s the very opposite in 2025. Debt is a normal function of economic behaviour. That’s a dangerous 180 flip.
Because if everyone owes, who is really paying for it? And what if they can never cash in? Is it all one big massive financial black hole that no-one wants to actually admit exists?
5. The True Cost of Living.
Poverty used to be a thing of the past. A historical social issue overall. That has begun fast reversing. Hard working people and families are being drawn into poverty because everything increases in prices but wages fall further behind. People who would never experience financial hardship in days gone by, find themselves in that predicament. So, some simple but profound questions….
Where are we going as a world when people can’t support themselves or family despite working flat out and to the bone? What direction do those in power really think we are going???
PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS BELOW!
Ok, that wraps up another SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep thinking about these through the week to open up more of your mind and its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think. You have more answers and ideas than you ever previously thought possible!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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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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