As I’ve said recently, I’m reading Secrets of Self-Hypnosis, by Adam Eason. In the book (well worth a read by the way), he suggests an idea he got from Joseph Murphy’s The Power Of The Unconscious Mind. The idea is that your mind is a garden, and that you are responsible for this upkeep.
I like this analogy because it represents the way that we change organically, and the fact that left untendered, the garden will become overgrown, messy and full of weeds. But, you may say, I can’t reach the gnarled trees at the back, deep in my subconscious. Well I guess the answer is to tidy up the bushes in front of them so you can reach them! In the same way that sorting out an unmaintained garden is a slow, deliberate project, you can’t change who you are overnight, but you can, little by little, shape the garden to be the way you want it to be.
It’s funny that computer scientists aspire to creating true artificial intelligence; a computer that can learn and exist, adapt to new situations and environments and have a sense of being. And yet so many of us don’t consciously maintain our own minds, we just let new programs be written without reviewing their suitability for new situations, or doing anything to correct them or bring them in line with the person that we want to be to achieve the things that we want to achieve..?
