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Overcoming The Collective Negativity

By: Kenrick Cleveland.

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." --Seneca, Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD

Ummm. . . not sure if you've noticed, but lately every time I turn on the news, I get the impression that it's doomsday. The market is most definitely topsy-turvy, but is it the end of the world? Or is it just a cycle? It's easy to get depressed, confused, angry or obsessed with downward cycles, especially when the media keeps hammering us with it. My advice, keep your rudder in the water and make life work no matter what.

I have a good number of real estate agents in my Elite Coaching Club and we've discussed the current housing situation at length. Huge mistakes were made on all sides. The banks were throwing money at people. People were accepting variable rates (regardless of whether or not they understood what that meant) and way overestimating what they could afford to pay. And now. . . somehow it's everyone's problem (even those of us who understood 'fixed' rate doesn't translate to 'crippling balloon interest').

I don't have a solution for the mess in the market, but I do understand that should we tune in and commiserate with the cable news networks and ruminate on just how miserable and crushing a recession is/will be, we will be miserable.

Not sure if you could tell, but I'm not a huge fan of the media. There's not much to it beyond its attempt to entertain at this point, and even the "real news" gets all messed up with sleazy gossip (whether that be celebrity, political, or other). Aside from not really giving us much to go on, it also poisons the well for those of us trying to make positive changes in ourselves and the world, and for those of us who strive to frame the world and our shared reality as a 'win-win'. Collectively our conscious and unconscious minds are being fed a constant stream of gruel, duping us into believing we have no power in the world, no impact, no way to move things toward the better.

So as my way of counteracting this deluge of downers, I read. My most recent purchase is the book "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain" by Sharon Begley. I'm only on page ten and feel compelled to already recommend it. It's all about transformation. The premise is that when we combine cutting edge neuroscience and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of mindfulness, we've got something incredibly powerful to work with.

Our brains have the ability to heal and adapt to trauma, accidents, and can even reverse the negative programming we've been subjected to in different areas (the media being one of them). When we have intention and pay attention to what's really going on, not what's going on in the frames that others set for us, then we can make seismic changes in ourselves, changes which ripple into those around us, which move exponentially outward.

Oftentimes, spirituality and science have been at odds. We see this with the evolution v. creationism battle that is still being waged (and the wrongfully perceived "compromise" of intelligent design). But finally, neuroscience and the spiritual practice of Buddhism (which I do not practice but have a great respect for) have discovered common ground and are doing incredible things in the mind/body realm helping to transform what used to be problems and diseases that were once thought incurable or were only able to be "fixed" with pharmaceuticals (OCD, autism, dyslexia, depression).

Hmm. . . where's the profit in us fixing ourselves? Where's the profit in us rippling out positivity and undermining the negative things that are being spoon fed to us?

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.

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