{"id":496,"date":"2018-11-04T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T06:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/?p=496"},"modified":"2019-10-23T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:26:39","slug":"light-from-many-lamps-iii-all-that-we-are-is-a-result-of-what-we-have-thought-the-mind-is-everything-what-we-think-we-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/2018\/11\/04\/light-from-many-lamps-iii-all-that-we-are-is-a-result-of-what-we-have-thought-the-mind-is-everything-what-we-think-we-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Light From Many Lamps III: \u201cAll that we are is a result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our minds are like a double edged sword that serves as both a blessing and a curse. \u00a0It’s responsible for our most brilliant ideas, our lens in which we see the world, or the joy we get from others. \u00a0But it can also drive us to feelings of despair and anguish, set us in complacency and hinders our inner potential. \u00a0Our mind, like everything else, can serve us in two dual, opposing manners and it’s here where we must recognize this. We must utilize it to its full capacity to do good not only to ourselves, but for others as well. Buddha says it best when he said \u201call that we are is a result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become\u201d (as cited by Watson, 1988, p. 173). <\/span><\/p>\n

Too many times do we see those around fall into a cycle of anguish, blaming everyone but themselves for their misfortunes. Attributing all their problems to \u201cbad luck,\u201d \u201cfate,\u201d \u201cGod\u2019s will\u201d etc. Yes, there are many things in life that are out of our control but often people don\u2019t take into account the things they can control. One of the most liberating feelings for me personally, is when I break out this thought pattern and realize that I have more control over my destiny then I originally thought. That I have control over my environment and that I can be proactive when facing uncertainty rather than reactive.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, when I attended a conference sponsored by TWU last Thursday about female leaders in the tech industry, one of the panelists, Rebecca Troelstra, mentioned that in her company, they hire more so based on people\u2019s attitude and potential fit in their work culture rather than than the job skills they possessed. She said skills were something the company can teach to an employee but having the right attitude is what will enable the employee to learn. If they person truly believes they will be a good fit for the role and for the company, they should put themselves out there regardless because they will never know what will happen if they didn\u2019t. I found her statement very empowering because one of my biggest fears is the feeling of rejection. I\u2019m confident in my ability to learn and provide value to others but I also feel I limit myself career-wise because I despise the feeling of rejection. I become what I ultimately believe and prior to her reminder, my self-imposed limitations become my reality. <\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone naturally feels negatively about themselves at certain times because we\u2019re all imperfect. Everyone is going to make mistakes. What matters, however, is whether you can learn from those mistakes and truly believe that it is in your power to make a difference. If you truly believe that you have the ability to improve or control what you can control, that belief will become your reality and you can achieve mastery of your mind dualistic nature in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

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References<\/b><\/p>\n

Watson, L. E. (1988). <\/span>Light from many lamps<\/span><\/i>. New York: Simon & Schuster.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Our minds are like a double edged sword that serves as both a blessing and a curse. \u00a0It’s responsible for our most brilliant ideas, our lens in which we see the world, or the joy we get from others. \u00a0But it can also drive us to feelings of despair and anguish, set us in complacency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,97,118,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ldrs-500","category-ldrs500","category-light-from-many-lamps","category-unit-6","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/insightsofakahuna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}