Some Things Are Best Unknown

Have you ever experienced happiness? True happiness? Bliss? Joy? Freedom? I’m sure you have! Hopefully quite a bit in your life, but even if its just small touches of these things, that is great.

I work with a lot of people in my coaching practice who are trying to get these things (and more) by doing something. For example “I’ll be happy when I get a new house” or “I’ll be free when I work for myself”… Interestingly, when we put conditions on anything our unconscious mind creates a new set of rules that we then live by. Really, if a person says that they’ll be happy when they get a new house – do they really mean that they won’t be happy until then? No, probably not. But, the unconscious mind is extremely intelligent and takes everything literally.

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Changing Maps

Can you imagine if you had the same values and beliefs and aspirations as when you were four years old? How about ten? Twenty? Maybe some of the things you wanted then are still relevant, but not all… this is because our maps change.

We each have a map of our world – this tells us where we are going, where we’ve been, what we want, what is important to us, what we will and won’t stand for. This map was and is continually created by our surroundings, the people in our lives, our education, financial standing, location, etc. I can guarantee you that living in a busy city like Sydney, Australia creates a different map for me as compared to living in a slow paced place like near a beach in Tahiti.

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