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 – Mental Health.
Mental Health is a big, big subject these days. COVID challenged us on many levels but hardest of all was in our minds. It flagged up how important the once neglected mental side of health truly is. So this week, SuperMind Saturday takes a look at our mental wellness.
- Mental Health – as ever I’m going to start with the point on many people’s lips. In this case it’s the word mental. This conjures up someone crazy, out of their minds, and plain mad. Therefore it’s perhaps not the best word to be used to draw attention to good mind health. And so should that be used instead? Good Mind Health? Or do you have an even better term that promotes a better view on mental wellbeing?
- Most people don’t like to talk about their mental health. But, even more so, they don’t want to even think about it even though that’s the right thing to do. We seem so scared about looking at our own mental health. What do we think we will find???
- Quote – award winning actress Glenn Close wonderfully said, ‘What mental health needs is more sunlight…and more unashamed conversation’. Mental health doesn’t seem half as bad when spoken about by a celebrity. How can we use well known people to normalise talking about mental health?
- Thought. How ground breaking would it be if someone created a highly publicised programme and book about a thought diet? A healthy range of thoughts to fit into our daily thinking patterns. Would you love to participate in a thought diet and why?
- Best health is seen as bodily health. We eat well and exercise well and reduce harmful substances to maintain a sturdy system. But the mind is also part of our body as such, a key component of what keeps us alive. Is it time then that society encouraged mind exercises for us to undertake to keep our mental health as good as our physical one? How best can we do this?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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 – Education.
Education is at the root of the quality of society. It teaches and prepares our young generations for the future. It also aids us in our adult lives to improve and progress. It’s the bedrock of humanity. Yet, despite this, week after week it appears in the news regarding some aspect of it. Are we getting it wrong? Is it failing our children? Or are we tweaking it too much too often? This week let’s put our SuperMind Thinking onto the subject.
- Let’s go straight at it. The word education is often followed by the word system. That word means part of a complex whole. So, maybe education has become too clever itself. We are trying to do many things in too many ways. How can we make education more simple delivering the basics we all need?
- That said the world is fast evolving. Traditional subjects once (and still taught) in schools are less relevant than ever in modern life. Is it time to ditch certain subjects? What new ones should be part of the 21st Century schools curriculum?
- Another facet of education are teachers standing in front of a class of students pointing at a board with information on relating to a book or text in front of them. While that has changed over the years, this style chiefly still remains the major manner by which learning is delivered. Is there a better way to teach people (especially young people) via less learning and more doing or using technology as the main teacher?
- Nelson Mandela famously said, ‘Education is the most powerful weapon by which you can change the world‘. But is that true in today’s modern culture? Is there another stronger solution to change the world for everyone of any age?
- Thought – education has always been planned to prepare us for life, or for some skill or role to come. But this preparation is non-emotional. It is actual based and not aesthetically so. In a modern society of feelings somehow emotional awareness and resilience have to be factored into teaching as a full and whole method of education. Is it time for this biggest shift in education in hundreds of years?
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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 – Crime and Jail.
SuperMind Saturday explores new thinking and ideas on life’s many key subjects. Especially ones that many people are talking about. This week a subject that has come to the fore in the last decade. That of crime and going to jail. Every single week there seems to be some headline or other on a convicted criminal and their sentence. It’s a hot topic. That kind precisely I believe SuperMinds are made for. So….let’s get involved.
- It’s a fact that jails are jammed with inmates who have committed some crime or other. There has never been so many prisoners than before. But that is the effect. Somewhere else there has to be cause. Why are so many people turning to crime or acting in ways that lead to being in jail and how do we stop this?
- Historically being sent to jail acted as a deterrent to would be law breakers. Today it seems it’s an accepted risk for their chosen criminal activity. How can we make jail an outcome that potential offenders simply do not want again?
- Let’s got metaphoric. Being in jail means being in a prison you can’t get out of, something you are stuck in or with for many years. On that level, what is the biggest personal jail most people are held captive in across the world? How would you change that?
- Jails everywhere are full to bursting so is it time to re-think jails as such. Rather than large centralised buildings like now should there be alternative prisons built such as whole ready made built communities deeper in the country or islands that can house greater numbers or even underground lairs? What could be the ‘new jails’ of the future?
- It used to be said that crime doesn’t pay. But with modern organised gangs using worldwide supply routes that is a thing of the past it appears. As such low level crime like shoplifting, muggings, and break-ins are no longer investigated by the police. Is this the future of crime? How is crime developing and how can we beat it before it does.
That’s another SuperMind Saturday for your mind powers to work on. Thank you for being here for the SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its potential. Consider more, generate ideas more, think on bigger possibilities more, activate your connection to your personal higher mind more and more. Employ your SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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 – Violence.
Humankind isn’t always kind. In fact, we have a history of violence, murder, war, and more as far back as time goes. It was once a reason to survive. Then it became a way to grab power. It developed into an instrument of despots seeking domination. And today we sit at home and watch it on TV every night as entertainment. Yes, we are fascinated by violence. So, let’s take a SuperMind Saturday look at the subject.
- The world is a violent place. It seems we still need violence even though we live in a far more civilised and developed world than ever before. Why, then, do we continue to need and use violence so much?
- Lyrics by music legend Bob Dylan – ‘Democracy don’t rule the world. You better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence’. These lyrics from the song Union Sundown were written in 1983 but are as real and true as ever. How can we stop violence in all forms (especially everyday people against each other) ruling the world?
- Violence is the default and quick response in the modern world before any other action. You see this day in day out everywhere on the planet. Why is violence our first go-to reaction in our lives?
- Thought – violence has become an unquestioned element in our lives in 21st Century life. It rarely shocks us as it used to. From news to entertainment and even on the sporting field, there it is. It’s become part of who we are. This is not a good thing.
- Since the start of this century violence in all forms has increased across the world. In my opinion this is because of social media which has made it easier to see and to spread. What has caused the huge growth in violence and can we stop this?
That’s a wrap for this week SuperMind Thinker friends. Keep up the super thinking on all of the subjects I’ve covered on SuperMind Saturday. And don’t forget to carry on elevating your own thoughts and beliefs every day. We need the SuperThinkers of the world. Like…….badly!!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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 – Spirituality.
The world used to be a more religious place. Religion played a regular part in the majority’s lives week in week out. But that has been on the wane as spirituality has seen a huge upswing in popularity. And that’s why this week at SuperMind Thinking we’re going to take a good mental look at it.
- Religion meant followers believed in a heavenly idol that was worshiped as it saw over our lives. Spirituality though supports a different notion. We are spiritual beings who carry special gifts and came to Earth to use them. If that is true, why have we been given these abilities rather than God?
- Under the spirituality banner comes everything from the spirit world to tarot, angel therapy to past lives. Is it all becoming kooky or are there one or two key truths to focus on with spirituality?
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said, ‘We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience’. So this week’s big question. What experience ARE we all having in living as mortal beings?
- Thought – spirituality is a change in what we believe from years gone by, so perhaps it is really just another step in human development of our minds and psyche rather than some mystical understanding in us. What say you?
- Spirituality revolves around the belief that there are other unseen worlds beyond this mortal one and other powers we possess other than our physical ones. What if this were true? Why did we never know before? Why at this point in time are we now becoming more aware of this?
Another great SuperMind Saturday. Thank you for being here for the Saturday SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let’s work the SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
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 – death.
If there is one thing guaranteed for all of us on this planet, it’s that we will die. No-one leaves the Earth alive. Now that should make us appreciate life. But no. It’s the very opposite as most people are bothered about, and plain scared of death. So, this week on SuperMind Saturday let’s take a mental look at the grim reaper’s end game.
- The author Mark Twain said, ‘The fear of death follows from the fear of life’. He suggests that we are scared to die because we haven’t done enough with our life. Is death, then, merely a fear of having not lived sufficiently or meaningfully?
- Thought – maybe we are not so scared of dying but HOW we will die. That the reason for our death is horrible or painful with suffering and not simply just slipping away at an old age.
- If there was no death perhaps we would all go mad as life just doesn’t stop, there is no end point. We might not be able to take situations that just go on forever. Could death actually be a means to encourage us to love, create, connect, give and the like as we only have a finite time?
- We have birthdays to mark the start of life and celebrate them every year. But the day someone dies is more sombre. Why can’t we have a yearly commemoration day on the day they passed away to equally celebrate them being in our lives and who they were? What are your thoughts?
- Death, the final curtain. And so it all ends. That is the popular view. But that view and the word death conjures up all manner of dread. As we can’t alter this ultimate outcome for all of us wouldn’t it be better to promote another word that defines when our mortal life ceases. What word would be more calming and less panicky that we could all use instead in death’s place?
That’s it this week my friends. Thank you for being here for the Saturday SuperMind time. Keep asking yourself these through the week to open up more of your mind to evolve its untapped power. Consider more, reflect more, think more, activate your connection to your personal mind more. Let’s work the SuperMInd and Super Think!
See you next time for more super thinking.
