I’ve just returned from an entertaining and enlightening day in the presence of authors/coaches/inspirational speakers Robert Holden and Michael Neill.
Among the many nuggets they shared with us was the following metaphor. If you were given the choice of a sophisticated computer with a huge hard drive that wasn’t connected to the Internet or a sleek laptop with a fast broadband connection, what would you choose?
Most people would choose the latter, because they want to be online. In this context the sophisticated disconnected computer is our mind, our personal thinking, and the sleek connected laptop is the portal to a realm of limitless wisdom – the higher mind, the universal mind, whatever you want to call it – the web of life, perhaps.
When we are online, we can tap into this wisdom, this ever present flow, but if we are offline we are stuck in our small, separate self and our own personal psychology.
I was amazed when Robert told us that the latest thinking about the brain is that we use only one per cent of it. Which must mean the other 99 per cent is the online stuff.
What if we gave up our ownership of the one per cent? Then we really could say we are the 99 per cent. Just ponder that for a moment. We don’t use the vast majority of our brain. So is something else using it for us? It’s blowing my mind, which is good. I will leave you with that thought while I pick up the pieces of my one per cent.
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