Look to The Past to See The Future

Someone was asking at quoteland.com, who said “Look to the past to See the Future”?

I don’t know the answer but what struck me is how many people believe that statement to be true.

 The statement can not be true because it pre supposes that by looking at the past will let us see the future. We cant see unless we get some magical spectacles and since we can’t go to the past, we will never get to try on the wonder glasses anyway!

 Dr Phil McGraw says “The past is the best predictor we have for the future”, which is probably closer to the truth but personally I do not believe the past predicts the future at all!  What it does for the future, is to provide experience and resources that can be used to influence the present moment. It is what we DO NOW that impacts on, if not creates, the future.

In my own personal coaching model, I disassociate my clients from their pasts, so that it is complete and cannot get in the way of the future that they want to create.
More accurately, I like to separate them from their story ……
……“I mess everything up” …… “No! You messed things up. You have absolutely no proof that you mess EVERYTHING up!”
…… “I can’t stop doing it” …… “No! You didn’t stop doing it. That doesn’t mean that you can’t stop. DOES IT? You’re not doing it right now, are you?  By the way, why did you do it, then?” ……

 In my blog post ‘While You Sleep, Your Brain Keeps Working’, posted on 17th September, John M Grohol, reports that “the brain seems to decide what is important to remember and what is not—and a detailed memory evolves into something more like a story”

So let’s put the past where it belongs ……
…… it does not belong in the present and it does not belong in the future. The main reason it doesn’t exist in the future is that the Future DOES NOT EXIST and never has done and the reason that it does not exist in the Past is that DOES NOT EXIST either and also never has done

It is always now and always will be.
What you DO NOW will help determine the future. More importantly,
how you ARE NOW will determine what you do now

Further References

• AyPee’s Blog article "Life Just Is"  dated 5th July, 2010

• The Power of the Present Moment!  onepowerfulword.com

Are you in the System?

I went to see Neale Donald Walsch some years ago and he was talking about who and what runs the world.
Whose turn would it be next?
We have had the Churches rule, then Governments and as it was then, Money but then we went into Recession.

Now it is probably Systems ………..”Your call is important to us ……………

“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” ~ C. Northcote Parkinson

 

 

 

 

Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993)  British naval historian and author including the bestseller Parkinson's Law

sources AyPee,   thinkexist.com and wikipedia.org
mage librarything.com

Imagination Encircles The World

 

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
~ Albert Einstein

 

Einstein’s biography is available at the Wikipedia site.

Creativity

In his blog,  http://zenhabits.net, Leo Babauta writes “Creativity is a nebulous, murky topic”. 
Nebulous could mean vague and Murky can mean dark, dim, or gloomy – with which I am not sure I agree.

To me creativity is a high energy state and it is almost impossible for it to occur from a low energy state.
If it is high energy then by definition it is bright and awake; even if it emanates from the unconscious. 

The unconscious is recognised as being deep inside but it is not a dark place. Rather it has a perceived depth which makes it remote (some may say too distant to understand) but again, it is  a bright and energetic place.

I also believe the only place that creativity can can occur, is in the present.
It cannot happen whilst one is “stuck in the past”, although it can be fed from those experiences which obviously happened in the past.
So …

 Creation always happens in the Here and Now
see my blog post “Life Just Is” – posted 5th July,2010

Solitude

Leo goes onto identify the number 1 creativity habit is solitude.
He says “Creativity flourishes in solitude. With quiet, you can hear your thoughts, you can reach deep within yourself, you can focus” and “… there are lots of ways to find this solitude”

This a very interesting observation.

For me the “solitude”, that Leo refers to is not a separation from others (kids create beautifully amidst noise and chaos)  or even silence. It is in the separation and silence of entering into an unconscious or internal state. A beautiful mind?

Go Create

When I work with clients, I usually have to gather them up from the past and bring them into the present so that they can create a future -  to me coaching is all about creativity.

Create your own adventure because experience is all that there is.