For the past 2 months after I had bought some books on face reading I have wanted to learn to read faces.
I feel it is an important thing to do for my career in the legal field and also working with troubled parents & I want to know their character because I know they are not going to openly tell me.
Anyway, I have the books. I've read em' then I got busy with school (which is not a bad thing of course)...
and lots of other excuses arose and I have not learned a thing (as of this past friday) and with the help
of previous studies & the wise information learned in this class and realizing the advice I was giving my daughter to help her overcome procrastination and feelings of defeat and hopelessness something clicked!
I realized I need to apply what I told her in my pursuit of learning what I am passionate about... face reading.
Friday night as I lay in bed I thought "why haven't I learned this yet?"
I mulled it over and as I lay there in stillness wondering silently I heard myself think "just allow face reading information to flow through your mind and nothing else."
I sat up in bed and then laid back down... that was the answer!
So Saturday morning I woke up and my mind wanted to just be silent & or try and get me to think of misc. junk about the day or life or whatever... I stopped the misc. junk thoughts and I would only allow and have only allowed definitions of what parts of the face mean and shapes of faces and so forth and I realized when I set my mind to it I could visualize the face shapes I was thinking about & I actually did remember the definitions of some of the area's of the face... I didn't know I knew this information by heart but when I only allowed my mind to ONLY think about faces & face reading information it surprised me with what it did know!
My mind wants to think about something all the time, it's the nature of the beast so I thought why not make it think what I want it too, I learn valuable information in the process and we're both happy! lol
It still tests me of course! But unless there is silence/stillness I am and will only think about face reading.
& in 2 day's I have learned and remembered more on the subject and I am wonderfully surprised at the great results!
And since my mind hates repeating the same 'face' information for instance, learning all the meanings of the forehead angles for 2 day's (lol), I am devouring information on the next area of the face and learning it in record time! My mind is like a catapillar I guess, give it food to think about and mull over and when it's mastered that it wants more to feed on! I make it prove to me that it KNOWS the previous info. before I will add something new & fresh to it's memory library! We are on the same page now! It's fantastic!
I just had to share this break through... hope it helps someone else!
It takes sheer determination and will to do this but when you get mad enough and put your foot down it makes a world of difference! The mind will listen! So cool.
It is interesting that you personified your mind, as though it is a separate entity to be tamed and trained. And indeed Dacher makes it sound so. In reading about the brain patterns of contemplatives I wonder if the state of the brain-mind can be permanently altered to remain in the “zone”. In your new exercise you are focusing mind power on face reading thus you are training the mind to “do what it’s doing” rather than attempt to multitask. That is the “zone” of which I speak, the place where your mind is in the moment rather than attaching to random thoughts of things past, or fretting of things future. What the world would be like if we all lived in the zone. It is my aspiration.
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ReplyDeleteThe ZONE is the best place to be I think. I find it a struggle at times to remain there but since I have a purpose to do so (learn something) it sure helps. And it also allows my mind to think but not what it wants to think about...rather what I want it to think about.
I have to keep my mind 'distanced' from the true me otherwise it tangles me up and I forget who is who... and who is doing the thinking! Since I do not believe every thought is mine so to speak I assume every thought is foreign and it makes it way easier to sift through the rubble (lol). Liz