Your mind holds a secret. A secret that is an untapped power.
It’s a power we are rarely aware of. That’s because that power only shows itself in unexpected ways and situations. Unexpected and decidedly unplanned.
One famous voice is a first class example of this.
Anyone over the age of 45 has grown up with Bugs Bunny. A large as life cartoon rabbit with prominent teeth…..and an unforgettable voice. That voice was spoken by Mel Blanc. He was an American radio personality and voice artist who was responsible for hundreds of character voices and vocal sound effects in a career that spanned six decades. But, it was Bugs Bunny that became his unmistakable fame and fortune.
In 1961 though Mel was involved in a serious head on car accident. This resulted in a coma which lasted 21 days. There were few signs of consciousness and, despite everything doctors tried, he remained in his stupor. With hope about gone, one day a doctor tried talking to Blanc in Bugs Bunny style and asked, ‘Hey Bugs Bunny, are you there? How are you?’.
Then, out of the blue, a weak voice called back from the bed in Bugs’ voice, ‘Just fine doc, how are you?’. (See Mel Blanc explain in his own words).
From this point he began to gradually waken and returned to full health. Something deep in the mind was still working and powered up his return to life. Some connection was made to Bugs Bunny that drew life back into his whole body. The mind that seemed dead, was still very much alive. He would go on to live for nearly another 30 years until his eighties.
The unknown power of the mind showed doctors what it could do.
Superhuman Powers.
We have power beyond our awareness. A power of pure force in the mind that transfers to the body.
In 2006 Lydia Angiyou was at home in Ivujivik, her remote village home of 300 people in northern Quebec, Canada. Outside her two boys were playing happily until their worried shouts got her attention. There, making straight for her children, was a 320kg bear that dwarfed her in size and sheer muscle. Most people would have ran away rather than confront the wild animal. Her mind knew only one thing – to defend and protect her young boys.
She faced up to the bear screaming at it but it swatted her aside, knocking her to the ground. Undaunted, she got to her feet and began an all out fight with the huge beast, her mind driven only by saving her family. The commotion was overheard by a neighbour who grabbed a rifle and killed the bear. Despite her ordeal, Mrs Angiyou only experienced minor injuries.
Witness this again in 2013 in the US state of Oregon. Teenage sisters Hannah and Hayley were out walking their dogs near their home when they heard their father’s cries in pain and desperation. Upon finding him they came across a shocking scene. Attempting to pull out a tree stump in the garden his tractor flipped over and pinned him underneath by his chest. The tractor weighed 3000lbs.
Again something in the girls’ minds switched on to what they had to do. They had to remove the tractor or their father would be crushed to death by it. Even though the young teens were very slight sized in body frames, they successfully lifted the machine, many times their weight, and saved their Pa.
As their father, Jeff Smith, later said, ‘It’s amazing. You hear about this stuff…being able to pick cars up and slide people out. You never realise it’s really there until you actually witness it’.
His only injuries were a broken wrist, lacerations, and bruising.
Untapped Strength.
These true events perfectly illustrate how the mind holds stunning reserves of available power.
They also prove how this power is an untapped source of strength we possess.
Now this doesn’t mean you have to face some critical situation like the women above. What it typifies is that your mind has hidden forcefulness that you can access when you have a highly challenging test or task in front of you. In fact, it’s almost such scenarios that triggers this power to activate and become available for super use.
And that’s why I’m writing this blog post. If you are facing drastic times or a seemingly insurmountable obstacle that, at first look, appears hopeless. It’s not. It requires your mind to go into super fight mode. To face the dilemma head on.
If you can remove any panic and see the issue as a bear/tractor/heavy weight stopping you, the mind will give you mental brawn to get straight on in there and bust the difficulty. You can tell because it will guide you ‘to do what you have to do’ to win, get back control, and/or end this headache once and for all.
You MUST trust the powerful pictures it will project across you head. Then follow them.
Fight back and fight through through supersolving. Ask your mind, it’s ready and prepared. Always!
Big Brain Belief.
So much of our brain power is unused, untapped, and under utilised.
We prefer to only use it for everyday menial tasks – basic jobs to complete, making sure we do the washing, remembering where we put something we need at home and so on. Nothing big, nothing momentous. This mind effort works at a low level never employing it’s real ability to evolve more.
And that’s real story here. The tales above only epitomise that so much lays dormant in our mental banks awaiting us to exploit it. We shouldn’t wait until a frightful drama arrives to open up our supermind power. Otherwise our life remains limited and limiting.
Put the mobile phone down and stop scrolling through rubbish that does nothing for your life. Stop binge watching on Netflix. End thinking just about your next holiday or online clothes sales. Begin USING more of your mind. Have more big brain belief.
You have so much superpower and it’s all in your head!!
Reference – Wikipedia – Mel Blanc.
IMDb.com – Mel Blanc Trivia.
Today show – Mel Blanc – YouTube – Mel Blanc on coming out of a coma.
www.gg.ca -Governor General of Canada – Ms Lydia Angiyou.
www.dailymail.co.uk – Teen sisters lift a 3000lb tractor.
Photo attribution – Pixaby.com/GuyKeve – free for use under Pixabay content license.
Life isn’t complicated. In fact, the very heights our life will reach (or not), is down to FIVE decisions that decide everything.
Just five!
And yet they influence our full destiny, and continue to decide our life for all our life, until we know just what they are. These tell us who we are, what the prospects will be for that person, and define the whole significance and direction of who we become and what we experience.
They are the same for the celebrity as well as the average person on the street. They are the ones that have mapped out your life from day 1. And they are the decisions that make a pauper out of a millionaire, or a self made success out of a failure.
Just ask Warwick Davis.
Warwick stands only 3ft 6 inches tall but stands very tall as an accomplished actor. He was born with a rare bone growth disorder that leads to dwarfism. For most people with the same condition, that restriction alone has defined their life from the very start. Not so Warwick. He made the resolution that he was more, far more, than the size of his self. He would not accept anything else than a bigger future.
An opportunity appeared to act as an extra playing an Ewok in Return of the Jedi. As a firm Star Wars fan he jumped at it without any question. But chance was on his side even more. When fellow actor Kenny Baker fell ill, Warwick’s self-confidence as himself led him to being offered the prime role of Wicket. He excelled and began to craft a career in such roles that he became the ‘go-to’ person in films and TV series such as Willow, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and Merlin.
Now, years later, he is a BAFTA winner and one of the highest earning support actors of all time.
All because of the decision he took to define and decide his own life.
Famous and Fragile.
Being famous is a wonderful thing, right?
Well not for some because of what their mind is telling them.
Legendary pop star Michael Jackson, Transformers actress Megan Fox, Twilight actor Robert Pattinson, and singer Tom Grennan who has just spoke about it, have experienced (and still do), the mental obsessive disorder called Body Dysmorphia. No matter how beautiful, pretty, slim, or perfectly formed their bodies may be to the world, they only see ugliness, awful figures, or disfiguring body parts in some way. The naturally attractive Fox captures it when she said, ‘I don’t ever see myself the way other people see me’.
This is a living curse of vision stimulated by the mind. Whatever amazing careers they may have, whatever awards and praise they have won, whatever the millions of people who adore them, they are ashamed and depressed at themselves in the mirror.
It’s easy to say that if we were in their position we would love it, BUT, their tainted self image is a personal version we carry somewhere in our mentality. Not bodily perhaps, but in some other way for sure. And carry it in the 5 decisions that have defined and decided our whole life path, it’s level, and it’s progress.
The five that have been hidden but still show in who we are.
The Not so Famous Five.
These true stories above reflect how our own mental opinion about ourselves will dictate how and where we go.
Warwick Davis had a less than appealable look but he set his mind to believing in what he could accomplish. The celebs listed here (with countless other famous people who never admitted it) had fame, but their minds saw another view of who they were.
And that’s where the 5 decisions that decide life come in. There is NO specific list if you are expecting one. The type that’s some secret set of choices that will set you free and apart from the rest of the world. There IS the 5 decisions you have carried in your mind about you, life, and the world that has decided how your life has turned out. Or, in your head, should and will turn out. Ones like these –
- You never rated yourself as clever or smart so best that you take a solid, simple job that just about pays the bills and takes little pushing of yourself to do.
- Looks wise you thought you were fairly plain and everyone else seemed popular and attractive. Your response – to not be the centre of attention so you had few partners and stayed single (or married another unassuming person).
- Finances were a struggle growing up so you believed money was scarce or limited. Therefore you never buy much new or spend your income on treats and rewards keeping it in the bank sitting there instead.
- Sport was never a natural fit for you so you never did much exercise. Now your body feels old and weight is hard to shift but it’s OK as you don’t do fitness, it’s not your thing.
- Playing safe is best. You have developed that belief so you still have the same house and job and rarely travel abroad. You don’t like to try new things as you don’t know what could go wrong.
Such scenarios are what has played out in all our lives. The successful have taken on their mindset and defeated it. The truly happy have won over any thoughts that tell them otherwise. The winners are those who decided to re-wire their brain to focus only on the end prize. And then go get it.
The rest of us have been held back by our 5 main decisions.
We are a self-fulfilling prophecy!
If your life has never matched up to what it could have been, take a good look in your main areas. Somewhere in them are the 5 decisions that have took you there and stuck you there. It’s time to know them. And it’s time to change them.
To make new decision that will give you the new life that always seemed out of reach. But it’s not far away at all.
You are only 5 decisions away from complete life change. Make them!!
Reference – Wikipdeia – Warwick Davis.
www.bddfoundation.org – famous people with BDD.
www.sheknows.com – 23 celebs who have opened up about Body Dysmorphia.
Photo attribution – by JerzyGorecki free to use under the Pixabay content license.
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 – World Peace.
Back in the day beauty pageant contestants were often asked what they most wanted in the future. The majority made one simple statement; ‘World peace’. That was then (fifty or so years ago), but world peace seems as far away and as fragile as it’s ever been. SuperMind Saturday therefore has to get involved. Let’s switch our minds on.
Let’s begin.
- American politician Ginny Brown-Waite made a telling declaration when she said, ‘The UN has failed…in its mission to promote world peace’. The UN was once the bastion of ensuring conflicts were controlled and not allowed to develop. They do seem powerless to do that in the current time. Who then do we turn to for world peace? Who is independent enough to help keep the peace that is fair to all?
- Peace is our normal human setting. We don’t strive to fight, we prefer to live without hostility and bloodshed. And yet, war and fighting continue today as much as they did in ancient times. We seemed to have learnt very little. Why do humans not want peace and prefer war so often?
- Ask any normal citizen on the street and they will say they want peace in the world. Everyday people never choose battle and suffering. Therefore it is one or two leaders that lead their country out of peace into combat despite our wishes. How can we work to ensure no warfare can ever start without the public as a whole deciding it is the right, and only, thing to do?
- Children love. Children care. Children want to be friends. Yet, they become adults who seek anything but peace. We teach children to be good, to be kind, to think about others…..then they turn into the opposite. What is happening in our society that good little people become angry, attacking adults, often so soon as their early twenties?
- Peace may never be happening across all of the world, but peace is happening in MOST of the world at any one time. The majority of the population are peaceful live-and-let-live humans. Which is why the news promotes the opposite and the media seems to wait for it. How can we get them to find more positive stories? Are they to blame at spreading a message that the world is not largely a very peaceful place? And the big question of the day….how can we give world peace a better PR and image?
OK SuperMinds, keep the peace and share the good things with each other. It’s our world.
And 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!
See you next time for more super thinking.
Photo attribution – free to use under Pixabay Content License by Musiat.
Our minds are capable of phenomenal things. Precision is one of them.
Mentally we have the inbuilt ability to employ laser like focus in the pursuit of a goal, skill, aspiration, or achievement. Most minds though are only directed to scroll through social media, watch Netflix for hours, and pour over any concern no matter how small. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You have the art within you to utilise mental precision.
Others have magically done so.
Koji Mayuyama is known as The God Hand. In his native Japan he is a revered person. As a self taught ceramatist, he is the one museums, collectors, and organisations turn to when they need pottery and ceramics restored. But, they are not just any pottery. They are ancient artefacts, historical dynasty collections, and national treasures.
To normal restorers they are beyond repair. Fragile, brittle, highly damaged, and largely broken pots, bowls, vases etc that were made through traditional methods centuries before that have long since gone out of practice. Their materials no longer common or rare. The job would defeat everyone. Not Koji. This is how he gets his title as Japan’s Master of Restoration.
If you watch him at work (see link above to BBC series) you will see huge attention to detail (through researching and sourcing natural minerals and compounds to augment his restoring), patient crafting, and, above all, complete mental precision.
It’s not just the preparation that makes him so sought after. It’s the pure unadulterated focus to complete the job. Whether that’s umpteen weeks, many months….or even longer. It’s also why he purportedly commands 5 figures per piece for some of his work.
He has turned art restoration into the art of mental precision!
Mamba Mind.
Some careers are slow burners. A rare breed though are meteoric.
In 1984 a young American boy was living in Italy due to his father’s work. He was an avid sports fan and particularly enjoyed football (soccer) as it was the Italian national game. But, he also participated in basketball because his Dad played the game. When they moved back to Philadelphia in the early 90’s, the die was cast. Basketball called his name.
He was a natural player and mover on court and in a few short years he was training with the famous 76ers to get fitter. Then came his bold move. Despite having good grades at school, he decided to abandon his studies and aim for the NBA itself even though he was still in high school. A gamble all young would-be basketball hopefuls just would not take.
He was different. He was drafted and soon traded to the LA Lakers. Here his legendary rise to fame began it’s sharp rise to international stardom. The young man led the team to the NBA championship, played on winning Olympic teams, and led the league in scoring for two years in a row.
That player was Kobe Bryant. His stellar confidence shone through. His ube belief never wavered. Where did he get it from?
It came from his self-created Mamba Mentality. He defined this as ‘focusing on the process and trusting in the hard work when it matters most. It’s the ultimate mantra for the competitive spirit’. Absolute mental precision in other words. Set the belief, keep it like steel, never waver, hold the nerve, see it through. And succeed in a pinnacle way. He even wrote a best selling book called, ‘The Mamba Mentality: How I Play’.
The Mamba man who became one of the sporting greats.
Find your precision.
Kobe Bryant and Koji Mayuyama found their mental precision.
Found it where they could deliver it. Found it so they could use it in something specialist they could pursue to iconic outcomes and personal mastery.
That type of future can be destined for you too. Just like a novice restorer or novice basketballer, before you what you would seek may seem out of reach, beyond possible, crazy to consider, and a pipe dream. But, with mental precision, a locked in mindset of belief that does not let go of achieving the very best no matter the unfolding events around you, the best of yourself with it, the result will skyrocket you into a world very few ever experience.
To win your gold medals or be chosen to bring ancient treasures back to life.
It’s not WHAT you choose to achieve or become. It’s the MENTAL FORTITUDE you take with you on the journey. What mental companion you let accompany you on your pilgrimage to prominence. Find something that will force and forge something great within you to come to life. Take the higher road with your mind.
Step into ongoing mental precision and excel yourself.
References – www.biography.com – Kobe Bryant.
www.brittanica.com – Kobe Bryant.
medium.com – Mamba Mentality.
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes – japans-master-of-restoration.
Photo attribution – https://pixabay.com/photos/male-model-fashion-portrait-9707881/ – free for use under the Pixabay Content License.
I’m often asked how someone can develop a SuperMind.
Most people believe it is some complex procedure that will take years. Or a specialist programme few have the desired intelligence to qualify for. Not so. In fact, it’s all about getting started, forging the right foundations and building momentum.
And that’s something anyone can do whether they are from Milan or Mogadishu, Brisbane or Boston, Peru or the Philippines.
Because a SuperMind is what we all have and what we can all strengthen.
So, let’s get your SuperMind development up and running with these 4 simple SuperMind boosters.
1. Re-imagine differently.
You already imagine, don’t you?
What you imagine, though, are your worst fears, of everything going wrong and turning out pear shaped. Ones you keep having without fail.
And those images are driving actions and behaviours formed from the negatively set beliefs and thinking they have forged into you. If you only ever see bad things, you will expect bad things, and so end up avoiding most things. For example, if you only ever see businesses failing and picturing total financial disaster in your head, it will be no surprise that you will steer well clear of starting your own venture.
If you only ever imagine horror stories about love or travel, you will be a lone soul who stays at home rather than part of a happy couple on an exotic beach.
You have to begin re-imagining. Re-imagining differently, better, brighter, more optimistically, and with everything going right and working out. This HAS to be your first port of call for a SuperMind to take root.
Today, add some look good, feel good, imagined outcomes in your mind. Repeat day after day.
2. Write down ideas.
You have an amazing idea.
A possible great product or developing a talent you have to meet a gap in the market. In your mind it looks good. Or something to explore further; a project that really interests you or a personal ability to expand. You decide to think about it.
A few days pass. Your head has been infiltrated by other stuff – tasks to complete at home, a heavy workload in the office, shopping duties, kids to pick up, your normal weekly hobbies. Soon that super idea has gone to the back of your mind, and then out of it completely. You can’t quite recall what you thought was so cool or lucrative….and now you are frustrated and disappointed.
You can prevent this ever happening. When those brilliant ideas come out of nowhere, write them down. Always have a small note pad to hand to capture those initial idea bursts. Record as much as you receive in your mind. As your mind feeds you the total scene and how it can unfold, put it down on paper to protect. You can always add it to a computer file afterwards. Then you can revisit, rework, and progress this golden concept.
You can’t grow what you don’t keep. Do the write thing, write ideas down!
3. Discard distractions.
What grabs the mind gets the attention. All other thinking and activity gets shelved as it gets caught up in this attractor.
This means important functions such as idea generation or mental confidence building become halted. And if the source of the attention does not go away, these highly crucial attributes of the mind power down as they are not considered important.
The No.1 origin that causes this are distractions. Ones that don’t expand or improve life, they offer no growth potential or mental development. The problem is that they are the same for the majority of all of us. Yes, you know the ones!
Social media, endless scrolling on the phone entertaining yourself with funny videos, catching up with world news or sports updates, plus bingeing on a Netflix series or a few hours of down time in front of the box (that’s TV for the non-Brits out there), nights out with the boys or girls and the like.
We all are due some fun space. We deserve a break and some escapism. Except that it’s not a few minutes or something to watch over a coffee break or after a long weekend of self improvement work. It’s a daily occurrence without pause. It’s sucking the mental life out of you and you have to start binning it.
If you truly want mental muscle that can help you achieve anything, ditch the distractions.
4. Start power reading.
You mind needs a new spark.
An igniter of stronger possibility. An inspirer for far more. Something that uplifts, encourages, informs, and stimulates the best thinking.
Welcome to books.
Good books. Ideas books. Development books. Not wild fiction books or genres that again act as a distraction. Books DO help us exist within another world but it mustn’t be a dark world or harsh world or any similar world that tells a story of pain, struggle, and even death.
You have to get into books that propel you upwards where achievement lives. They can be personal life story autobiographies from the successful. Equally they could be true history tales from the past detailing success and how great things happened.
Top of the lot are educational books from the ultimate writers in your field. Those that have more than ‘been there done that’ and have actually created some blueprint that fires up your mind to how you too can elevate yourself. One of my all time favourites is ‘Atomic Habits’ by James Clear. That’s one of mine, get power reading and discover some of your all time mind movers that get your head in a new bigger game.
Reading books is filling your mind with mental fulfilment fuel.
That’s your fab four right there. Four simple SuperMind boosters. Four is all it will take for your mind to start working in the progressive ways it was built for and has been waiting for.
Four mega kick starters anyone can set off today that will keep bringing benefits for years to come.
Picture attribution – under free content license https://pixabay.com/photos/man-portrait-adult-people-business-3022255/.
