Our thoughts really belong to the collective consciousness of
the world in all of time.
Our individual minds process the cumulative database recorded on
the physical and subtle levels and devise interesting
combinations, unique interpretations, and random permutations.
When this assemblage of information is startling enough, we hail
it as an expression of genius.
The pattern of human thinking is designed to hold homeostatic
belief systems. This has great survival value for establishing
consensus reality. Our minds love to believe that our particular
interpretation of events is true. And, if others disagree with
us, it only convinces us that our experience of the world is the
authentic one.
We establish the dominance of our world-view through selective
filtering patterns. This is why every fresh interpretation of
knowledge, every invention, every innovation is met with violent
opposition.
In fact, given the remarkable gravitational pull of any
established view, it's almost miraculous when a new paradigm
claws its way out of the slime of resistance into the clear
light of acceptance.
Homeostasis is maintained through two factors: pride and denial.
We use the emotion of pride to defend a cherished position and
we use the mechanism of denial to suppress anything that
contradicts our position. Only when the opposing or
contradictory information reaches a critical mass do we
acknowledge it.
This resistance to fresh insight is common to everyone
regardless of culture, background, intelligence, and educational
level.
Yet confronting resistance is another force, an irresistible
compulsion to overcome stasis and discover anew. Consequently,
what happens is that people and societies do change, but slowly,
very slowly, because the dynamism of new paradigms are always
slowed down by the drag of old paradigms.
To transcend the built-in limitations of our minds to resist
fresh ideas is an act of will. We must choose to question the
nature of our beliefs. We must choose to be interested in other
perspectives.
When we surrender our view that we know something, when we are
willing to entertain the discomfort of an alternative answer,
and when we prefer curiosity to pride, we step into the realm of
possibility thinking.
Possibility thinking is a heroic act because it allows the
future to break from the past. It allows for a flow of new
probabilities and outcomes.
Our future depends on those who dare to think beyond the
confines of orthodoxy.
Possibility thinking is the child of evolution. It is empowered
by hope and vision.
About the author:
Saleem Rana got his masters in psychotherapy from California
Lutheran University. His articles on the internet have inspired
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