THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE

A shift in our perception can cause a major change in our life not just in thinking but also in our outcomes.
Often a shift can happen from something apparently simple.
About forty-five years ago I read a small paragraph that simply said what do you believe is the most important discovery in the world. The finding of dinosaur eggs, the great pyramids, man landing on the moon, no is not any of these it is the understanding that all comes from thought from imagination.
If you had been in the room with me at the time you would have taught I had gone crazy, I was jumping up and down, dancing around the room with such excitement, that simple statement hit me like a thunderbolt of lightening and intuition. I knew in that moment beyond a shadow of doubt that I could create my reality. That took place around 1961 long before that type of thinking was even discussed.
That experience led me to be at the forefront of the human potential movement in the early seventies.
And insight that happened during my early years of teaching mind potential seminars, someone told me about a remote place called Hunza in East Pakistan where the average person lived to be a hundred and twenty years of age. I did some research, found books and yes it was true.
That insight shifted me again to realize that our beliefs about aging were very narrow and limiting. Now at age 70 I still climb fourteen-foot mountains, I recognized that I could be healthy and vital at well over a hundred if I chose to. It is what I call “The Exception to the Rule”.
What we think, believe and feel becomes our reality, if we accept the norm that is usually just what we get.
Over twenty years ago I threw out the TV for me I saw it a waste of time, a robber of my creativity and a mass media programmer. That decision has given me the time to become a published photographer, poet and author of several books. More important it opened up vistas of experience that I otherwise might never have had like doing photography in Burma, Cambodia, Thailand and several other places.
Most humans allow them self to fall into categories the parent, janitor, policeman, principal, software engineer and that image that identification often controls the persons actions and behavior and therefore there reality.
Don’t misunderstand there nothing wrong with being any of the above if that is what we wish to do, but all to often following the rule leads to personal stagnation.
Just the idea to be “Exception to the Rule” can change your perspective can allow us to not be dominated by what everyone else is doing and what others think we should do. Peer pressure robs many a human being of their dreams.
Some thoughts are liberating and many are nothing more than the accepted norm.
A great book on liberating your thinking go to http://www.coolzenhealing.com/DiscovertheMagic.htm