Brain Rules – 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home and School.

This is a very interesting book.  Do you realize that every time you learn something your brain physically changes?  No matter how old you are your brain is still being programmed and re-shaped every day.  So if we can “re-wire” ourselves, then it’s never too late to learn, grow and become anything we desire.  Everybody can get something from this…  Check out the site @  http://brainrules.net/

The Rules

Explore each rule through illustrations, charts and video. These tutorials are designed
to reinforce the concepts in the book; we recommend reading the corresponding
chapter first.

“Full of Paradise Without Knowing It” – Part 1

“I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it.” – Thomas Merton.

There is a clue hidden in this wonderful quote from Thomas Merton.  It leads us to an answer to the question, “why can’t I stop my mind from racing, thinking and constantly processing my to-do list or my thoughts and feelings?  It’s easy to tell someone to “be still”, “calm down”, or “take some time for yourself and meditate”.  But why does this seem so hard to do?

Leaf in the Wind…?

Do you ever feel like you’re being tossed around like a leaf in the wind?  I’m talking about mentally/emotionally.  Take a moment to think about how much of your time throughout the day, you are thinking about things that you really didn’t decide to think about.  You just think about them.  But you didn’t say to yourself, “hey, I’m going to replay that conversation I had yesterday, over and over again until I craft the perfect comeback I wish I had said but didn’t because I couldn’t think fast enough at the time and I was nervous.”  Does anybody really ever decide to have and hold onto thoughts like that?  Or do they just kind of creep up on us and take hold of us.  Or here’s another way of saying it.  Do our thoughts take hold of us?  Or do we take hold of our thoughts?