You are what you think.  It’s an ancient saying that describes the way our thoughts have the power to shape us and our world.  If we think we’re worthless, for example, that’s how we will behave and how others will come to treat us.  The actions of others eventually vindicate the original sense of low self-esteem.  It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and one we just don’t see.

 But what causes us to have those thoughts in the first place?  According to the Time-Light model, all thoughts are the brain’s interpretations of energy pulses or waves, which originate from one of the time centers – present, past and potential.  These in turn are created from the traces of experience – or, rather, the emotional or sensory distillation of an event.

 So, your sense of worthlessness is your brain’s interpretation of a poorly-remembered event.  And here’s the trick of the brain: when it has thoughts of worthlessness, it needs someone to be worthless, otherwise the thought has no significance.  The thought of worthlessness almost simultaneously creates the ‘I’ who ‘thinks’ he is worthless!

The Dalai Lama is visiting my home town of London this week, and it got me thinking about people who have inspired or influenced me over the years.

 So here is my ‘top 10’ in no particular order:

Earlier this week – on May 6^th – it was Sigmund Freud’s birthday.  Happy 156^th birthday, Siggie!

I think he raised some interesting questions, but I’m not a fan of the answers.  There’s a world of difference between Freudian analysis and Time-Light, and here are just a few of the differences:

They say the world splits between those who’ve read Lord of the Rings and those who haven’t.  For me, there’s another split: you’re either a systems or a process person.  A systems person tends to hold to mechanical/physical explanations for most everything – which is why I’m a process person.

A process person holds to the idea of energetic – rather than physical – causes, and the inter-relationships between things; everything affects everything else, rather than a top-down pyramidal structure that the systems people hold to.

Take depression for instance (I did for years, which his how I came to write Time-Light) – an appropriate subject for Depression Awareness Week.