Wednesday, August 18, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Scottie
Wisdom&Faith
Jean Russell Nave
Scotties,
politics,
and chasing
inner peace
Whether it is about treats,
car rides, catching balls, or
taking walks, my Scotties are
the more-more-kids. They
never have enough of what
they want.
When someone can9t ever
get enough of something 4
anything 4 it will deprive
that person of inner peace.
This is the big trap for people
who are heavily mixed up
with today9s politics. When
I was young most people
didn9t pay much attention
to politics except during
elections. But today it has
become much more common
for many people to be tuned
in to politics 24/7. Cable tele-
vision probably has a lot to
do with that.
If you are a political
junkie, when your party is in
power you9re always look-
ing for more ways your side
can institute changes. If your
side is out of power, you9re
always looking for ways to
get back into power. Like my
Scotties, your political appe-
tite is never satisfied, depriv-
ing you of inner peace.
To find inner peace we
each need to learn new hab-
its. When I was a motiva-
tional speaker, many com-
panies wanted their employ-
ees to learn new habits, so I
invested time learning how
we form habits and how or
what can break them.
We form many of our hab-
its in early childhood. The
culture or environment in
which we live teaches us a lot
about what works and what
doesn9t work if we want to
get along with those around
us. Many of these habits
help us live peacefully today,
and that is one key to under-
standing habit formation. We
develop habits unconsciously
based upon the quality of the
outcome of a behavior.
When we do something,
and we get a negative reac-
tion to it, we generally don9t
do it anymore. But when we
like the outcome, we do the
same thing again and again.
As I9ve learned from my
Scotties, and many research
studies confirm this, it may
take only doing something
two or three times for us to
form a new habit.
If it is so easy to form a
new habit, why is it so hard
to break an old one? There
are several reasons. Habits
are stored in our subcon-
scious mind. This is the part
of the mind that really runs
our lives. The subconscious
runs all your body functions.
Its collection of habits help
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you drive, take a shower,
wash dishes, play golf, walk
down the road, and do just
about everything in life.
How often have you been
thinking about something
important while you9ve
driven to work? Only to find,
once you arrived at your des-
tination, you couldn9t even
remember the drive. You
accomplished this compli-
cated task thanks to your
subconscious mind. Your
conscious mind worked with
the problem and your sub-
conscious mind drove. This
is a great example illustrating
your subconscious mind9s
power.
As a matter of fact, once
you realize how powerful
your subconscious mind is,
you may want to do what the
sports world is now doing
and begin deliberately build-
ing new habits.
Studies show, and college
and professional athletes
have taken notice, that your
subconscious mind is always
ready to learn. The amaz-
ing thing is that this part of
the mind doesn9t know the
difference between actually
doing something and actively
visualizing yourself doing
the same thing. As a result of
this discovery, advanced ath-
letic training now has athletes
spend time visualizing their
correct form to achieve opti-
mum memory. Coaches used
to speak of muscle memory.
Now they know they must
also develop subconscious
mind memory.
With this background,
you can see that it is almost
impossible to change a habit
that produces outcomes you
like. Therefore, diets don9t
work. You like food! You
probably like sweet food.
You may be able to learn to
like a lean body more than
sweet food, but that will
only happen if you spend
a great deal of time visual-
izing the warmth and joy of
a lean body. As soon as you
think about the joy of food,
the old food habit will jump
right over the new lean-body
habit.
This column started out
talking about inner peace
and never getting enough of
things. Both conditions are
habits. You can build a habit
of finding inner peace by
examining things in your life
that make you feel peaceful.
When you identify some-
thing, such as looking at the
mountains with new-fallen
snow, sitting by a stream, or
walking down a forest trail,
capture that image in your
mind and practice visualiz-
ing that peaceful scene any-
time you feel agitated. With
enough practice, you can
teach your subconscious to
bring that feeling forward
to help calm you down as
needed.
When you build the habit
of inner peace, you can end
the habit of needing more of
everything. Welcome to true
peace and joy.
For he himself is our
peace, who has made us both
one and has broken down in
his flesh the dividing wall of
hostility. 4 Ephesians 2:14
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